OneNote: Password Protect Sections




  1. Thanks for the simple easy instruction. I tried Microsoft's help but I would have to pass the bar exam to get to one simple answer.

  2. It's too bad that you cannot password protect an entire notebook. Often times people have large notebooks with many sections that need to be encrypted and it's not really practical to lock every single section. It would be so much easier to be able to lock the whole notebook.

  3. Agreed! Definitely something I'd change about OneNote if I had the power to do so.

  4. Yes, once you password protect the file, someone else can't see it. But what keeps them from just DELETING it? I created a password protected section for test, wrote a small note, protected it, locked it, closed notebook. Opened up notebook and simply deleted the section.
    How do you keep sections from being deleted?

    1. That would be a useful feature, for sure. As far as I know, there is no built-in feature to prevent a section from being deleted. I can only recommend that you back everything up on a regular basis to a protected location if that's something that you are concerned about.