OneNote Search Results not pinning

Krajewski, Todd 10

When attempting to click the "pin search results (Alt-O)" or by pressing ALT-O, the pinning action does not work.

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Matthew Bouwens 36 Reputation points

2025-09-12T17:09:50.68+00:00

This also broke recently for me - On OneNote 2508 Build 19127.20154

Using "ALT+O", as well as attempting to click the bottom text with the "Pin" icon kept taking me to the first result in a page without the results. However, after a few minutes the "Search Results" pane did finally show.

6 answers

L U 26 Reputation points

2025-12-22T00:35:53.2666667+00:00

I had the problem. I found a string in all notebooks (desktop 365 app). Accidentally clicked "Find on page". Realised mistake, and then below the results I clicked "Pin search results" but it did not work (wanted dated long list).

Cleared search (x in search box) and re-input search, directly clicked Pin search results - did not work.

Closing and restarting OneNote app did not fix - searched something else, and then clicked Pin search results, did not work.

Might have stuffed something up by choosing Find before Pin in the same search?

Remedy:

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Anyway, closed OneNote.

Cleared (renamed-aside) the "cache" folder here:

C:\Users\mckayl\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneNote\16.0

Re-opened OneNote (waited for all Sync to come good).

Searched - the list took a little time to arrive - clicked Pin search results, and a little wait, and I got my dated search results, pinned OK.
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L U 26 Reputation points

2025-12-22T00:39:10.98+00:00

Still, Alt+O did not seem to work anyway.

L U 26 Reputation points

2026-02-05T02:41:12.25+00:00

Now both click and Alt+O do not work.