Microsoft OneNote 2016 – Password-protect your notes

Password protection in OneNote is designed to help keep your notes safe from prying eyes. Whether you use OneNote for class notes at school, meeting notes at work, a personal diary or blog at home, or personal information about yourself or your friends and family, passwords play a crucial part in controlling access to those notes.

You can help keep your private notes safe from prying eyes by protecting a OneNote notebook section with a password. When a section is password-protected, all of its pages are locked until you enter the correct password.

Password-protect a section in OneNote:

1. Right-click the section tab you want to protect and then choose Password Protect this Section.

2. In the Password Protection task pane, choose Set Password.

3. In the Password Protection dialog box, type the password you want into the Enter Password box.

4. Confirm the password by typing it again into the Confirm Password box, and then click OK.

Note: Choose your password carefully. If you forget your password, no one will be able to unlock your notes for you (not even Microsoft Technical Support).

You can also:

·      Lock the protected sections in your notebook.

·      Change the password for a protected section.

·      Remove the password from a protected section.

·      Set various password protection options.

·      See OneNote 2016 Help (F1).