Hi!
I am trying to get away from Windows 10 but still need to use my Microsoft 365 software.
Almost everything works fine (Outlook365, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) but I have a big issue with OneNote.
When trying to create a PDF file, the output format does not fit my A4 page (like it does on my laptop with Windows 10): I didn't find any place where to format this PDF output.
Any idea welcome!
Thank you
MacBook Pro (2020 and later)
There is no problem with the display on my screen, only with the PDF format... So I cannot get WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get")!!!
As I have already written, I do nothing on my laptop running Windows 10 and I get the proper PDF output: so I don't understand why I don't get EXACTLY the same thing with my Macbook Pro M1 (I also went to the shop where I bought it, the so-called Apple expert had no idea how to solve the problem).
I am so disappointed with the Apple world, every time I encounter an issue, finding the guy who knows how to solve it is really hard...
I tried to answer your question buy DLing Onenote. But MS demanded that I sign in to their system to be allowed to use the program, and I declined. When I create PDF files on my mac I do it through printing and then choose to save as a PDF. i can then open it as a PDF doc. Are you talking about printing it in A4(8 x 11 essentially size)? When I print out of Pages which opened the pdf document, I can then choose A4 size to print it.
I don’t think I understand what you are talking about.
Indeed you didn’t understand my question. Using « print », I selected « pdf file » and got a pdf that is not correctly formatted (it is not what I see on my screen).
When performing the same operation on my laptop with Windows 10, I just print by selecting Microsoft PDF and I get the proper pdf file.
jypoc wrote:
I am so disappointed with the Apple world, every time I encounter an issue, finding the guy who knows how to solve it is really hard...
You have a problem with PDF and/or OneNote and you blame Apple? Maybe you can ask your question in the Microsoft Product Help Communities.
Well, I can't believe Outlook365 is not used by Mac users (as a Windows user, I never had big issues with that software).
If you want a real Mac issue for which I had a hard (and long, like 4 years) time to get the correct answer, here is one: I brought an iMac from Canada (sorry, I'm Canadian) with a QWERTY keyboard so I changed it to AZERTY.
When the Mac was booting up, although I had carefully made sure my preferences had been changed to French AZERTY, the system didn't care and always started as a QWERTY (once you were successfully logged in, it was working)... Imagine my sorrow to discover that after I had changed my password. I even thought someone hacked my iMac, as I couldn't anymore log in!!!
I went to Apple stores and to MacWay stores, and spent numerous hours with the Apple support to not prevail: no one understood how to solve that issue.
So during 4 years, I had to use simple passwords such as "toto"" as they were good for both QWERTY and AZERTY keyboards... I finally found someone who understood how to solve the issue, after 4 years.
So your issue is not specific to OneNote or PDF? Your issue is with Apple. You can contact Apple here:
Ok but why does it have to be formatted on your screen? You can easily change the size of the window. When its printed, you cannot change that, but you can specify that it's printed there in A4.
Incorrect PDF format from Onenote for Mac
