How to get OneNote to word wrap properly?

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I have to rebuild a Team in Teams from the ground up because someone at MS decided I need to use OneNote as a public facing learning resource, but despite the fact I'm using the wrong tools for this, it's what MS thinks I should use and I need to make it work.

I noticed it only takes up half the space and leaves the right side unused, it breaks much of the type layout because the word wrap is so aggressively gigantic? How do I remove word wrap parameters so it fits the page like proper web-based text editor?

Of course, why isn't there native text editing inside Teams, but that's just bad design.

SokiGuo-MSFT 27,731 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-05-25T02:59:38.0233333+00:00

Hi

We will check it later.

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LiweiTian-MSFT 19,165 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-05-25T08:13:11.3166667+00:00

Hi @41844108

Do you not want OneNote pages to wrap automatically?
According to my test, whether it is OneNote embedded in Teams or OneNote client, word wrapping exists.

Since your question is related to OneNote, which is not in our support scope. I will remove teams tag from your thread. Thanks for your understanding!

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41844108 271 Reputation points

2023-05-25T15:35:13.7466667+00:00

You see that red box in your photos? That's exactly where its not wrapping correctly. It has a giant block of white space half the width of a small laptop screen. Because Teams already takes up a bunch of screen real estate, that wasted space is ridiculous. Worse, when you open up the side bar so you can see a table of contents, then suddenly the table of contents takes up 4/5ths of the screen and the actual text content is one inch wide and 4 stories tall. If MS decided that OneNote will be the new Wiki, then it should design for that functionality or a build a template, or a PowerAutomate tool to extract Wiki contents PROPERLY into a personal notes app so we can share with it a global organization (weirdly). Or better yet, just keep the wiki, sheesh.

Its sad you removed the Teams tag because this is 100% OneNote not displaying text properly within Teams contexts. I think it's crazy that your tools are not integrated, and worse that dev and support are so siloed that they don't design, engineer or even support each other.

Additionally I only use OneNote as a hack for to display a Wiki (poorly) in Teams so perhaps this is Teams punting some basic communication structure to another Team at MS? Oddly Teams is the app that is the worst at presenting information, visual communication and organizing content (not possible at all) -- I don't understand why they're removing features not making a better product.

LiweiTian-MSFT 19,165 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-05-26T07:35:53.73+00:00

Sorry for the inconvenience caused. It is recommended that you send feedback directly to Microsoft to add it to future updates.

To send feedback in Teams, you can select the Help button in the lower left corner of Teams, then select Suggest a feature or Provide feedback to tell Microsoft what you think.
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