Engineering OneNote Blog

Onetastic adds Macros for OneNote

varunsrin — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:37:00 GMT

Those of you following the blog may remember Omer's Onetastic add-in that added many new features to OneNote - if you haven't seen this already, check out our previous post on it. Omer has now added support for macros, which are a really cool way to automate tasks within OneNote. For instance, you can create a macro which removes all hyperlinks within your notebook, or one that can remove all images above a certain size. Onetastic also ships with several macros like:

Clean Author Info
Clean hyperlinks
Increase / Decrease Font Size
Search & Replace
Search & Highlight
Resize Images
Select Images
Auto-Fill
Function

Onetastic comes with an editor that lets you create your own macros:

Once you've created macros, you can import/export them as XML to share them with other Onetastic users:

There's even a tutorial to help you get started! Let us know what you think about Onetastic macros in the comments below.

Taking Meeting Notes in OneNote 2013

varunsrin — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:18:00 GMT

This post was authored by Po-Yan Tsang, Program Manager on the Meetings Team

One of the most common scenarios for taking notes at work is during meetings - whether it is about tracking attendees, remembering what was discussed or listing out follow up items. However, meetings are often rushed and busy, and we wanted to make it as easy as possible to start taking notes and collaborating with other attendees.

Meeting Notes for an Outlook Meeting

In OneNote 2013, you can start taking notes by going to Home -> Insert -> Meeting Details, which lets you choose from a list of current meetings in Outlook. This automatically adds details about the meeting to your current page

And it’s as easy as that – you now have a page with all the details of your meeting, so you can get right down to taking notes and still have all the context about where the meeting was and who attended the event.

We’ve also added some extra features to enrich and keep notes relevant:

New Format - the participants list now has checkboxes by default, so you can track attendance
Up To Date Meeting Details - if you're you’re the meeting organizer and you make a change to the location or time, your notes will get updated when you send the update from Outlook. If you’re not the organizer, you can right-click on the page tab and select ‘Refresh Meeting Details’ to have it update.

Meeting Notes for a Lync Online Meeting

Similar to the Outlook meeting notes experience, you can also take meeting notes from Lync. Once you’ve set everything up, we will automatically update your notes page with:

List of attendees
Any files uploaded to the Lync Meeting
Links to any other notebooks shared within this meeting.

Sharing Meeting Notes with Others

Why take notes on your own when you can get everyone to help out? Get others to help make sure you don’t miss an action item or a key decision in your notes. In OneNote 2013, set up a shared note taking space for everyone in the meeting is a snap.

Before a Meeting:

In the Outlook meeting request, go to the Meeting Tab -> Meeting Notes -> Share notes with the meeting
Select the notebook page you want to share with the meeting. Remember, this has to be in a shared location like SkyDrive or SharePoint.
Now you can send out the meeting invite, which will have a link to your Outlook meeting

During a Meeting:

From OneNote, select the page you want to share with the meeting and go to File -> Share -> Share with Meeting
You can choose an existing meeting here or create a new Lync Meeting
Once a meeting is selected, a link to the OneNote page is shared with all the Lync participants

We believe that taking notes is a significant part of the meeting experience and we've put a lot of thought into improving this experience and making it effortless in OneNote 2013. If you have feedback on any of the updates and additions to these features, please let us know in the comments below.

Po-Yan Tsang
Program Manager on the Meetings Team

Sharing in OneNote 2013

varunsrin — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:42:00 GMT

This post was authored by Nicole Steinbok, Senior PM on OneNote

I love using OneNote to keep track of stuff that I need to do and have it available on my laptop, iPad, Windows Phone and PCs at work. What I love even more is using OneNote to add to the list of things I want my husband to do in our shared home notebook.

In Office 2013 we have simplified the sharing experience for OneNote: you can share directly from OneNote 2013, to any email address, your friend doesn't need to sign-in to view it and they don't even need to install OneNote to edit it. You can also get a Sharing Link and share anyway you want to: email, blog, your favorite social network, etc.

Bonus: this also all works for Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio.

Sharing a Notebook

I will pretend I don't have a notebook shared with my husband and show you how easy it is.

1.Create the notebook on SkyDrive

File -> New -> Enter a notebook name -> Click Create notebook button

2. Share the notebook

File -> Share -> enter an email address

Optional: add a message

Click Share button, SkyDrive will then send a sharing notification email to my husband

Now I will pretend I am my husband…. (good thing I am typing this and I don't have to lower my voice ;)

1. Receive a Sharing notification email, click on the notebook link

2. See the notebook

3. Get to work on that to do list!

And that is all you need to know to share a notebook. I have included a FAQ but if you have more questions or feedback please post them below.

FAQ

I have written all my recipes in a notebook and want to share it with all my Facebook friends, how do I do that?

Easy as pie!

File ->Share -> Get a Link -> Select the type of Sharing Link you want and click the Create Link button.
Right click on the link and Copy it
Go to Facebook and paste it, post it
Watch the likes come in :)

I have a local notebook, that I would like to get on SkyDrive, how can I do that?

File -> Share
Select a folder for the notebook
Give it a name
Click Move

Yikes! I shared a notebook with someone and now I don't want them to have access, what do I do?

File -> Share
Right click on the person (or Sharing Link), Remove User

Note: You know that thing that wipes people's mind in Men in Black? Yeah well we don't have one of those. If the person has opened the notebook we don't close it on them but they will not see any new updates and will not be able to edit your notebook.

I have another question. How can I ask it?
Please post it in the comments below.

Nicole Steinbok,
Sr. Program Manager on OneNote

Navigation in OneNote 2013

varunsrin — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:55:00 GMT

This post was authored by Olya Veselova, Senior PM Lead on OneNote

Organizing and finding content is an important part of your note taking experience, and we've spent a lot of time this release thinking about how to improve navigation in OneNote 2013. We've also been working on making OneNote better for touch based devices, which have an entirely different set of constraints. It's also important for the UI to scale well for casual and power users - we wanted to make it easy to get around your content whether you have a single notebook or dozens of them.

As David touched upon in his earlier post, we now have two modes in OneNote:

Normal View, an updated version of the layout from 2010 designed for mouse and keyboard use
Full Page View, a completely new style of navigation designed specifically for touch

Normal View

Normal View is an updated version of the OneNote layout you've always known - pages are on the right side, sections are on top and a list of notebooks on the left.

Notebook Dropdown

In OneNote 2010 the notebooks were shown collapsed in a bar along the left side of the screen , and we realized that there were some shortcomings to that approach: sideways text was harder to read, and the visual layout didn't make the relationship between notebooks and sections entirely clear. It also wasn't very obvious which notebook was current and the UI didn't scale very well when you had many notebooks.

The dropdown in Normal View will be the default view for most mouse and keyboard users, and the name of the current notebook is displayed prominently next to your sections, so you're never in doubt about which notebook you're in. To navigate to another notebook, you click on the notebook name which brings up the dropdown. The layout also scales well - if you add several notebooks, the icons will be shrunk so that you'll almost never have to scroll.

If you have only one notebook, we don't take up the extra space on the side of your screen - this view is good to use if you spend a good amount of time in each of your notebooks, rather than constantly switching between notebooks. It is also best suited for notebooks of medium size - without section groups or too many sections - such that your most used sections can fit across the top.

Notebook Pane

Now, if you're more the power user type and you like to switch between your notebooks frequently, fret not - we've updated the old Notebook pane view from OneNote 2010. You can get to this view by clicking on the pin button in the notebook dropdown (pictured below)

When you turn on the notebook pane, we display a list of all your open notebooks and highlight the notebook you're looking at. The pane takes up less space, and wraps your notebook names if they are too long. This view is great for large notebooks with many section groups and sections.

If you have several sections in your notebook, the bar on top can get filled quite easily and then you have to click twice to get to your section. To make this simpler, the notebook pane also displays a vertical list of sections so that you can get anywhere with a single click.

Full Page View

Full Page View is our minimalist, touch friendly mode that you can get to by clicking on the button in the top right corner of any page. Full page view gets rid of both the ribbon and our navigational chrome, and keeps you content in focus.

As you can see the layout is very clean, keeping your content front and center while removing all but the most necessary UI elements. The extra whitespace is really useful for working with wide tables or taking notes next to inserted documents. It's great for a tablet when you're writing with a stylus, and you won't accidentally go to a different page when your rest your palms on the screen. In fact, if you rotate your tablet to portrait mode, OneNote goes into Full Page View to provide a better experience.

Notebook Dropdown

In this mode, you tap the notebook name in the top right corner to bring down your notebook dropdown. If you're using a slate, this button will be within easy reach of your thumb so that you can jump between pages easily.

To make our navigation more touch friendly, we brought notebooks, sections and pages into a single 3 column layout. You can tap on a notebook, section or page to preview it instantly in the background and then tap on the page to dismiss the dropdown. You can also double click or tap or navigate instantly to a particular page,

You can right click any item in here for context menus and drag and drop to reorganize. There's also a shortcut to the search box, and if you're using a mouse, you can take advantage of our new floating page button to insert a new page exactly where you want it:

Editing Notes in Full Page View

You probably also noticed that the ribbon is hidden by default in full page view in addition to our navigation. Users can still edit and interact with content through the context menus, which can be brought up by :

Right clicking with a mouse
Selecting and tapping with touch

The layout changes depending on whether you're using touch (pictured above) or a mouse and keyboard. Of course, You can always bring back the ribbon temporary by clicking the '…' bar at the top of the screen or you can pin the ribbon to have it always appear.

If you have feedback on any of the changes we've made to navigation in OneNote 2013, please let us know in the comments below.

Olya Veselova
Senior PM Lead, OneNote

OneNote 2013 Overview

varunsrin — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:28:00 GMT

This post was authored by David Rasmussen, Group Program Manager for OneNote

The past two weeks have been exciting for everyone working on OneNote. We have been designing, developing and testing the OneNote 2013 release for quite some time, and now that we’ve released the Office Customer Preview feedback is flowing in. Thank you.

In this post I’ll provide a high level overview of the major investments for the OneNote 2013 release wave. In subsequent posts we’ll go into more detail on the feature areas.

OneNote 2013 Overview

The areas we invested in are intended to make OneNote a great experience for taking notes on clipped content, particularly on touch tablets with pens, to provide easy access everywhere, and to improve sharing with others. Specifically these investments include:

Clipping content into OneNote to write and annotate on
Improved embedded documents and tables
Touch and pen tablet experience
Sharing, meetings and collaboration
Universal access

1. Clipping content into OneNote

Getting content into OneNote from other sources has always been an important part of collecting information and taking notes. Sources include web pages, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, screen clippings and so on. In OneNote 2013 we’ve made this even easier by introducing the OneNote Clipping Tool.

The OneNote Clipping Tool gives you a single location on the Windows task bar that you can tap with a finger (or click with a mouse) to take a screen clipping; send the current web page to OneNote; or send the current Word, PowerPoint or Excel document to OneNote, so that you can take notes on it; or just take a quick text or ink note. It’s context sensitive depending on what app you have top most.

2. Improved embedded documents and tables

The Clipping Tool makes it easier to get content like PowerPoint decks or Word documents into OneNote, but we also wanted to make it a better experience once you’re there. So we’ve improved the experience of taking notes on embedded documents in OneNote in several ways:

Multi-page Documents: If the Word document or PowerPoint presentation you’re sending to OneNote is more than 10 pages, OneNote will automatically split it into multiple OneNote sub-pages to make it easier to navigate and take notes.

Auto Zoom: When you’re in full screen mode, OneNote will always zoom the embedded document so that it fits on the screen.

Paging Buttons: When you’re viewing an embedded document in full screen mode, OneNote provides paging buttons to go forward or back through the document for easier viewing. The buttons will also re-center and zoom the page, so that you can view your embedded document after taking notes on the side.

Improved Rendering: As you zoom and pan around on an embedded Word document or PowerPoint, OneNote re-renders the text quickly so it stays crisp and readable.

Embedding Excel and Visio Documents: We’ve added the ability to embed Excel spreadsheets into OneNote pages. You can edit the table in Excel and when you save, the charts and tables on the OneNote page will be updated as well. For those of you who like to do diagramming, we’ve also added similar support for Visio documents.

Improved table support: Because it was such a common request we’ve also improved tables in OneNote by adding cell shading, sorting and better selection options. You can even convert a table into an embedded Excel document to create charts or take advantage of some of Excel’s features right inside OneNote.

3. Touch and pen tablet experience

Now that you have content in OneNote that you want to take notes on, we wanted to make that a great experience on touch tablets with pens. OneNote has always been designed to take full advantage of pens on tablets. But now that touch is standard on tablets and they are getting thinner and lighter there was an opportunity to improve the experience.

Full page mode: OneNote now has a full page button in the corner of the page. You can just tap it and OneNote hides all the UI so you can just focus on your content. This makes it much easier to write with a pen without worrying about accidentally touching parts of the UI with your palm.

Drop-down Navigation: When you’re in full page mode, you can tap the notebook name to navigate to another notebook, section or page without exiting the fullscreen mode. It works well with thumbs when you’re holding your tablet in your hands.

Touch Pan and Zoom: OneNote automatically defaults to panning and zooming with your fingers, and inking with your pen so you can switch quickly between touch and pen naturally without having to change modes. We’ve also made zooming and panning much smoother.

Rotating to portrait flips to full page mode: When people use their tablets to ink, we noticed that they often prefer to do so in portrait orientation, which resembles a typical sheet of paper. So when you rotate your slate, OneNote automatically flips to full page mode and hides all the navigation and chrome to give you all the space you need to write.

4. Sharing, Meetings and Collaboration

Beyond personal note-taking, OneNote is also designed to easily share notebooks with others, edit together in real time, and to facilitate collaboration in meetings. We have improved these experiences in the following ways:

Easy notebook creation on SkyDrive: When you start OneNote for the first time, we will setup a notebook for you on SkyDrive. We’ve also made the new notebook process very simple – just provide a name and it will be created on SkyDrive for you.

Easy Sharing: We’ve focused on making sharing easy by removing hurdles. There are two simple ways to share a notebook:

Invite people with an email address – there are no restrictions on which email address can be used. People who receive notebook invitations do not to have OneNote to view or edit the notebook, they can use OneNote in the browser (for free).
Get a Sharing Link - These links can be used on your blog, Facebook, Twitter or anywhere you can send or post a link. Anyone with a sharing link can view the notebook without having to sign in. We also let you disable the sharing links later, in case you decide to make a document private.

Real-time Editing: When two or more people are working on the same page, you can now see changes almost instantly. This makes collaboration a delight and is very useful during meetings. This feature is available on Office 365 today and is coming to SkyDrive soon (if you want to check it out now sign up here)

Meetings experience with Lync: If you’re using Outlook or Lync for your meetings, you can create meeting notes automatically in OneNote, which will include a list of attendees, meeting details, and relevant documents so that you can get right down to taking notes. Meeting can be created in Outlook, or during the meeting in Lync and attendees can collaborate on these notes in real time.

5. Everywhere Access

We repeatedly hear that access to your notes and the ability to take them anywhere is very important, whether you’re at work, home or on the go. Since we released 2010 we’ve been hard at work creating a great OneNote experience for you, no matter where you are:

OneNote for Windows 8: We’ve reimagined the OneNote experience for Windows 8 and created an exciting new app codenamed OneNote MX. Whether you draw, type, click or swipe, this app will shine on your Windows 8 device. If you are running Windows 8, you can download it from the app store today and try it out.

OneNote for Phones: In addition to the desktop version, OneNote now supports Windows Phone, iPhone, iPad, Android and Symbian phones.

OneNote in your Browser: The OneNote web app lets you access your notebooks from a browser, without having to install anything. Just click on your notebook from SkyDrive or SharePoint to start editing.

We’ll write more in future posts to explain each of these areas in more detail. We hope you enjoy OneNote 2013!

David Rasmussen
Group Program Manager, OneNote

Sending Feedback about OneNote 2013

varunsrin — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:02:00 GMT

It's been a few days since the Customer Preview was released, and we'd like to thank all our users who downloaded and tried OneNote 2013. If you haven't downloaded the 2013 Preview already, you can get it here today.

We'd also like to ask you to to send us feedback about OneNote whenever you find something that you like, dislike or want. You can always post in the comments below, or use one of these alternatives:

Send a Smile

You can click on the smiley icon in the top right corner of OneNote 2013 to send feedback. If you're using the Windows 8 style app, swipe up from the bottom to get to the feedback button.

Send us smiles about features that you like or frowns about things that you don't like - our team looks at the feedback quite regularly, and it's super helpful to learn about what you find delightful or annoying.

Microsoft Answers

For more detailed questions or issues, reach us through the OneNote forum on Microsoft Answers. Some of our team members check the site regularly and help users with issues, as do many of our MVP's and helpful community members.

Known issues with OneNote 2013 Preview

We wanted to send a link to the known issues for Office 2013 Customer Preview, you can check there for known issues, but of course we look forward to your feedback!

Thank you again for installing the Customer Preview! Stay tuned to the blog, starting next week we will go in-depth into some of the new features that we've added.

OneNote 2013 Preview is now available

varunsrin — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:22:00 GMT

OneNote 2013 was announced earlier today as part of the Office Customer Preview , and we're really excited to show you what the team has been working on for the last two years. Over the next few weeks, Engineering OneNote will explore each of the changes we've made in detail, but for now you can check out What's New in OneNote 2013.

Try OneNote 2013 today

We'd love to hear what you think of the new OneNote, so please let us know in the comments below.

OneNote Mobile for Android now available!!

Daniel Escapa — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:56:47 GMT

Yesterday we released OneNote Mobile for Android so we now have OneNote on Windows, web, iPhone, iPad, Symbian and Android. Pretty awesome stuff because we want to be in your hands, pockets & purses so you can always jot down a note and we will remember it for you. Get the app here:

Download it from the Android Market app store today!

And read about it here: OneNote Mobile for Android is now available worldwide.

OneNote for iPhone updated to 1.3 & native iPad version available!

Daniel Escapa — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:00:00 GMT

I just wanted to write a little note about the updated OneNote for iPhone and the native iPad version which were released on Monday. We have been listening to all of your feedback and working hard to get an update out there. You can read about the new version here: OneNote for iOS gets new features, arrives in new markets worldwide. Thanks for all of your feedback and please keep it coming!

Finally happy holidays & happy new year from everyone on the OneNote team to you and your families.

Onetastic PowerToy for OneNote 2010

varunsrin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:57:00 GMT

Omer Atay, a developer on the OneNote team, has written a set of tools in his spare time called Onetastic. This PowerToy for OneNote 2010 adds three new features:

The ability to rotate & flip document printouts like Images
A chronological view of your OneNote pages (OneCalendar)
A clean-up option for an information bar alert in multi-page printouts

If you use your notebooks to manage your to-do list or as a repository of miscellaneous thoughts, you'll find OneCalendar extremely useful for looking through your usage history. It's helped me discover more than a couple of tasks that got buried in my extensive Unfiled Notes section.

You can learn more about the tools on Omer's website, or you can download them from here. If you have any feedback, please let Omer know in the comments below!

“Keep Shopping” commercial for OneNote

Daniel Escapa — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:45:56 GMT

I wanted to share a new commercial which should be airing soon which features OneNote. It is part of the It’s a great time to be a family campaign:

Hope you enjoy and if you see it on the air please mention where you saw it!!

OneNote 2010 books coming out soon

Daniel Escapa — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:38:34 GMT

I wanted to pass on details that a couple OneNote books are coming out soon and if you are looking to learn more about OneNote you should check them out.

First of all is Michael Oldenburg’s book: Using Microsoft OneNote 2010 which is now available for purchase as well as immediate Kindle download (in the US not sure about everywhere else). You might have seen Michael’s name before because he is man behind the OneNote blog and he has been involved with the OneNote team for years and he is an overall great guy. What I find most interesting about this book, besides all of the awesome content, is that is comes with over 3 hours of free video. The video includes step-by-step video tutorials that you can watch and learn about OneNote. Seems like a great resource, I just downloaded it to my Kindle and I will be flipping through it. Highly recommend this one:

The second book is Microsoft OneNote 2010 Plain & Simple by Peter Weverka. I didn’t know about this book until the blog post from Microsoft Press. Based on the table of contents it seems like a pretty good book and also Microsoft Press books are generally quite good.

If you are looking for a book about OneNote either for yourself, a new student, or to learn more please check out one of these books.

OneNote 2010 XML Schema

varunsrin — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:34:00 GMT

Following up on yesterday's release of the C++ header, we're publishing the OneNote 2010 XSD schema, which should make it easy for you to validate your XML data when reading or writing to the COM API. You can also use it to auto generate classes for native OneNote data structures using Visual Studio , and I've written up a short tutorial on how to do that.

Generating Classes from XSD Files

1.) Start an elevated command prompt, and create a new folder called OneNoteClasses in your C drive

 cd C:\
 
 mkdir OneNoteClasses

2.) Visual Studio 2010 packs a powerful XSD manipulation tool - xsd.exe, which we will use to generate our classes. Navigate to the bin folder that contains xsd.exe (or add the folder your PATH variable) :

 cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\

3.) We're going to run the XSD.exe tool with a few parameters - the source XSD file, a flag that tells it to generate classes for the data types, and an output folder. In this case, I have my xsd file on the C: drive, so I run:

 xsd.exe C:\OneNote14Schema.xsd /c /out:"C:\OneNoteClasses"

This should create a C# (.cs) file in your folder which contains all the classes, which is around 5600 lines of code. You can find more documentation about using xsd.exe here.

Alternatively, you could use Xsd2Code, a plugin for Visual Studio that lets you run the same command from the GUI.

C/C++ Add-Ins for OneNote 2010

varunsrin — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:16:00 GMT

Today, we're releasing the OneNote14 C++ header file which should make it easy for you to build OneNote add-ins. You can find the header file attached to the bottom of this post. Here's a quick example demonstrating how you could use the header file to get XML representation of the OneNote Hierarchy .

1.) Open Visual Studio and create a New C++ Win32 Console Application

2.) Download the header file, and copy it into your project folder with the C++ source files

3.) The following sample code, taken from the OneNote12 header post should still work, and output the XML hierarchy data of all open notebooks in your OneNote client. Just paste it into your newly created project and run it:

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "onenote14.h"
 
 
 
 int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
 
 {
 
 CoInitialize(NULL);
 
 IApplication* piOneNote;
 
 
 
 CoCreateInstance(__uuidof(Application), NULL,
 CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER, __uuidof(IApplication), (void**)&piOneNote);
 
 
 
 if(piOneNote)
 {
 
 BSTR temp; 
 
 HRESULT hr = piOneNote->GetHierarchy(NULL, hsNotebooks, &temp);
 
 wprintf(L"%s", temp);
 
 }
 
 }

Here are some other resources that you might find useful: -

OneNote 2010 Developer Reference

Tutorial: Creating extensions with the OneNote OM

OneNote Object Model for C#

OneNote & Python - using OneNote COM API with Python

Daniel Escapa — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:33:26 GMT

I wanted to pass on a few awesome posts by a new team member, Varun Srinivasan, who has been exploring how to use OneNote with Python. I wanted to share for people who wanted to learn how to connect OneNote with their favourite Python projects:

Please check it out if you have been trying to get OneNote working with Python. Great stuff Varun!

Office Casual: How to use OneNote on the go

Daniel Escapa — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:03:13 GMT

I wanted to point out a new video that Doug posted showing OneNote on the go:

Thanks Doug!

Update available for OneNote 2010 - Fixes OCR & Search issues

Daniel Escapa — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:07:51 GMT

Today we released a non-security update for OneNote 2010, here are the details from the Microsoft Office SE blog:

A non-security update for OneNote 2010 32-bit/64-bit Editions was also released. This update provides fixes associated with displaying search results, fixes to optical character recognition (OCR), indexing, and displaying of inserted documents. Additional information can be found in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article Update for Microsoft OneNote 2010 (KB2493983).

We heard a bunch of people mentioning this on the OneNote Answers Forum and we were able to figure out the problem and get a fix out for you all. We apologize for this inconvenience and encourage all users to upgrade today to fix up any issues you might have. Thank you much and please let us know if you have other concerns/issues!

Ping 89 a video of me talking OneNote for iPhone release

Daniel Escapa — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:20:13 GMT

A friend from college, Paul Mestemaker, is a co-host of a weekly video of what is happening at Microsoft called Ping! and he invited me to talk about the OneNote for iPhone launch. Here is the video:

My part comes on at the 5:30 mark. Thanks again Paul and I hope you all enjoy, very different being on camera : )

OneNote for iPhone Product Guide - lots of good tips

Daniel Escapa — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:37:18 GMT

I wanted to point everyone to the OneNote for iPhone Product Guide (pdf) which has a bunch of great info on OneNote for iPhone. It includes tips on how it works, what you see in the app and more. Check it out if you would like to learn more about OneNote for iPhone.

OneNote Mobile for iPhone - RE: "Login failed, error: 400" Error

Daniel Escapa — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:53:14 GMT

First of all thank you very much for your interest in OneNote Mobile for the iPhone, there has been a tremendous response thus far.

We have received reports from customers who are hitting an error on initial login, with the following message: "Login failed, error: 400".

The team has been investigating the issue and believe we have identified the cause. We are working on an update. However the underlying cause is an intermittent issue, due to overwhelming interest in the app. The workaround is to keep trying to sign in, once you get past this error then OneNote will sync without any problem.

Thank you for your patience and interest in OneNote, we all apologize for the inconvenience.

OneNote 2010 Ink fixes available on Download Center

Daniel Escapa — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:21:58 GMT

For the select customers facing Inking issues with OneNote 2010 we highly recommend that you install the newest update released today. This update contains fixes for many of the ink issues you all were facing.

Update for Microsoft OneNote 2010 (KB2288640), 32-Bit Edition

Update for Microsoft OneNote 2010 (KB2288640), 64-Bit Edition

Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft OneNote 2010. This update is an accumulation of the latest fixes, including solutions within the ink feature, and with the linked-notes feature affecting Turkish language users.

These should also be available on Microsoft Update (Windows Update) later today but if you want to install the updates right away please use the links above. Again thank you for using OneNote your patience. If you face more ink issues please comment below and we will continue to monitor customer feedback (per usual).

Help beta test a fix for ink moving and shifting bug in OneNote 2010

Daniel Escapa — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:04:49 GMT

We've heard reports from customers that ink they are creating on their Tablet PC in OneNote 2010 sometimes moves or shifts unexpectedly. We know how frustrating this can be and are trying to release a public update to address this issue as quickly (and safely) as possible. To that end, we believe we have a fix and we are looking for beta testers before the public release.

If you are interested, please contact us via this blog (email or comments w/your email address) and we'll follow up with you once the build is ready. Thank you so much for your help with this and for your patience.

Update: We are no longer in need of people, thank you very much to everyone who offered to help, much appreciated!

Open as Notebook in OneNote - get it back in OneNote 2010

Daniel Escapa — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:03:41 GMT

Right-click on a folder and choose “Open as Notebook in OneNote” was a little used power feature we had in OneNote 2007 was removed in 2010 because many people were confused by it. Many people just didn’t know how to use it and we improved our open experience in OneNote to people wouldn’t need to do this. That being said I wanted to let you know that if you _really_ missed this you can add it back via the registry, just add this:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\OneNote.Open]
@="Open as Notebook in OneNote"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\OneNote.Open\Command]
@="C:\\PROGRA~1\\MICROS~3\\Office14\\ONENOTE.EXE \"%L\""

(or whatever you have for your location of OneNote)

This should be it and you are done.

SharePoint whitepaper on co-authoring & OneNote notebooks

Daniel Escapa — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 01:06:51 GMT

I wanted to point out a few links for all of the SharePoint admins & deployment folks out there:

Co-authoring overview (SharePoint Server 2010)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff718249.aspx
Co-authoring administration (SharePoint Server 2010)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff718235.aspx
Configure versioning for co-authoring (SharePoint Server 2010)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff718246.aspx
Configure the co-authoring versioning period (SharePoint Server 2010)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff718243.aspx
Configure the maximum number of co-authoring authors (SharePoint Server 2010)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff718248.aspx
Disable co-authoring (SharePoint Server 2010)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff718245.aspx

In particular for OneNote I wanted to point out these tips:

OneNote Notebooks

Unlike Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft OneNote stores version information within the file itself. For this reason, administrators should follow these recommended practices when storing OneNote notebooks in a SharePoint Server document library:

Do not enable minor versioning. This is the default setting in SharePoint Server 2010.

If major versioning is enabled, set a reasonable maximum number of versions to store. By default, major versioning is not enabled in SharePoint Server 2010.

If you have questions please let us know!

OneNote in 90-seconds, a video to share with friends new to OneNote

Daniel Escapa — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:22:05 GMT

I wanted to post a video that one of my coworkers, Olya, did to help new users understand OneNote:

It is super quick and useful and also you might notice that music in the background is done by another OneNote team member, Mike.