# Importing from OneNote on Windows

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/importing-from-onenote-on-windows/47924>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [24 November 2025 17:39 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/importing-from-onenote-on-windows/47924 "2025-11-24T17:39:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![peters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@peters](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/peters)\
**Post date:** [24 November 2025 17:39 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/importing-from-onenote-on-windows/47924/1 "2025-11-24T17:39:09Z")

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### Operating system

Windows

### Joplin version

3.4.12

### Desktop version info

3.4.12

### What issue do you have?

I am trying to export OneNote notebooks to Joplin. Joplin Help instructs to "right click" on the OneNote notebook in the web app to do this. Right clicking only allows me to open the notebook: there are no other options. And there are no export options in the desktop version of OneNote to produce the ZIP files that Joplin requires. I am looking for a simple, straightforward solution that involves absolutely no coding, avoids Evernote and can be accomplished quickly. Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![personalizedrefriger](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/personalizedrefriger/32/13210_2.png) [@personalizedrefriger](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/personalizedrefriger)\
**Post date:** [24 November 2025 17:49 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/importing-from-onenote-on-windows/47924/2 "2025-11-24T17:49:20Z")

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If you're willing to try a Joplin pre-release: The latest Joplin [3.5.x pre-release](https://joplinapp.org/help/about/prereleases) should allow directly importing files exported from the OneNote desktop app (e.g. `.onepkg`/`.one` files). See:

> **[Importing and exporting | Joplin](https://joplinapp.org/help/apps/import_export/#importing-from-the-onenote-windows-desktop-app)**
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> Importing Importing from Evernote Joplin can import complete Evernote notebooks, as well as notes, tags, resources (attached files) and note metadata (such as author, geo-location, etc.) via ENEX f...

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**Author:** ![peters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@peters](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/peters)\
**Post date:** [24 November 2025 18:29 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/importing-from-onenote-on-windows/47924/3 "2025-11-24T18:29:22Z")

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Took your suggestion but find that Ver. 3.5.7 pre-release does not have the option to import OneNote .onpkg/.one files.

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**Author:** ![personalizedrefriger](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/personalizedrefriger/32/13210_2.png) [@personalizedrefriger](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/personalizedrefriger)\
**Post date:** [24 November 2025 18:43 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/importing-from-onenote-on-windows/47924/4 "2025-11-24T18:43:34Z")

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I see that the menu item is still listed as "ZIP". However, the option "ZIP - OneNote" in the import menu should allow importing `.one` files:

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**Author:** ![peters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@peters](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/peters)\
**Post date:** [25 November 2025 17:29 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/importing-from-onenote-on-windows/47924/5 "2025-11-25T17:29:56Z")

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Importing as .zip files does work but involves some unnecessary steps. Specifically, when I import a OneNote section file, Joplin creates a section (or whatever it’s called in Joplin) and a sub-section with all the OneNote notes in it. The top-line section has one note in it but that’s just a pointer: it contains no information. So, I end up moving all the notes from the sub-section to the top-line section and deleting the sub-section. It’s just more work. Anyway, I end up with a Joplin dataset that mirrors OneNote’s and that’s what I needed. Thanks for the help.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/1/c/1c948e33314e232a0927789508474d8624f4270b.png) [@system](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [25 December 2025 17:30 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/importing-from-onenote-on-windows/47924/6 "2025-12-25T17:30:02Z")

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