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OneNote Testing
What it is like to be a tester on the Microsoft OneNote team and day to day life as an SDET in Office. Plus a few tips for using OneNote and an occasional powertoy.
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OneNote Testing
Testing and using OneNote without a monitor
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over 3 years ago
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John Guin
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As another part of our recent accessibility push , we tested OneNote without monitors. It's hard to write about this since I can't include screenshots. If you want, you can simulate this yourself by reaching over and turning off your monitor - just be...
OneNote Testing
You can always identify a OneNote tester by the pages in the notebook
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
John Guin
1
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Our test team has a meeting every Monday to go over general status, tasks for the week and all the other items that all teams have meetings for at every company. I've been to many (many, many, many ) meetings at Microsoft, and I'll estimate that over...
OneNote Testing
Another round of accessibility testing
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
John Guin
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Last fall I wrote about one of our Accessibility testing tasks . We just finished another round and since I saw this request on our discussion groups, I thought I should follow up. Last fall, we took a programmatic view of accessibility testing. WE checked...
OneNote Testing
OneNote is in your tweets (and reading them, too!)
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over 3 years ago
by
John Guin
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So I’m reading my email when Mike Tholfsen (of the OneNote and Education blog fame) sent this email to a bunch of customer focused people in Office: “Enter your product’s name into Twendz to see what customers are Tweeting about: http://twendz.waggeneredstrom...
OneNote Testing
Troubleshooting differences between section groups and notebooks in OneNote 2007
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over 3 years ago
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John Guin
8
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One of the things that is different about OneNote is that we are a folder based editor - not an individual file based editor. A good example of a file based editor would be notepad. It works with a single text file at a time. You open the TXT file, edit...
OneNote Testing
Explaining an easy hurdle to overcome with the Page Expander Powertoy for OneNote
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over 3 years ago
by
John Guin
1
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One of the reasons it took me too long to finish the Page Expander powertoy (I haven’t used the Adapx pen in several months) was a problem I had when trying to update the page XML after setting the page size I wanted. I alluded to this on Monday when...
OneNote Testing
A powertoy to make using Adapx pens for OneNote a little easier for me
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
John Guin
8
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I managed to get my hands on a Capturx pen a while back from AdapX. If you haven't seen these pens, they are pretty nice - you can use their pen and their notebooks to take notes and sync the data to OneNote. It works well, but one aspect of the page...
OneNote Testing
A new OneNote Community site!
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
John Guin
1
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I saw this today and had to pass it on: there is a new OneNote community site at www.iheartonenote.com that I encourage you to check out! I haven't had a chance to check it out myself yet. Expect to see me over there once I get the registration...
OneNote Testing
Canvas for OneNote is released, and I’ll be updating some stale download links
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
John Guin
2
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The server I had been using (winisp.net) got migrated over the weekend to a new topology. At this point, it looks like my repository of files I had on the server did not migrate properly. I apologize for the problems and will begin restoring them from...
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