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OneNote Testing
Using Windows accessibility features to change the OneNote UI
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over 3 years ago
by
John Guin
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Last week I showed how you change some global Windows font and color selections to make changes to the way OneNote displays. I also explained why you probably don't want to do this. Then over the weekend, I saw this question on the discussion group :...
OneNote Testing
You probably don’t want to do this to OneNote, but here’s how
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over 3 years ago
by
John Guin
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I saw this question on the Outlook Newsgroup a few days ago: "Is there anyway to change the font size in the main outlook screen ( inbox...)? [I] want to keep the system font size..." And one of the replies said there was no way to change the...
OneNote Testing
Did OneNote cause this? (Haiku included)
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over 3 years ago
by
John Guin
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This is not so much about testing as life at Microsoft. Near our coffee machines is a little bench where you can sit and talk. And at the end of the bench cushions is a little area that serves as a coffee table. And about three months ago, this appeared...
OneNote Testing
Looking at design types of “bugs” is a challenge
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over 3 years ago
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John Guin
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One of the types of "bugs" I tend to report now and then tend to stretch the definition of "bug" a bit. At first glance, you could say bugs are code defects - any time the code does not perform to the design specification, you are...
OneNote Testing
How you can give feedback or report a bug with OneNote
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over 3 years ago
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John Guin
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Every so often, I get an email or report on my blog about a suggestion, criticism or bug report about OneNote. This is great - I look at a criticism as a chance for us to do better!. I figured I would show another way you can give feedback or bug reports...
OneNote Testing
Looking at a bug we fixed in OneNote 2007 SP2
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over 3 years ago
by
John Guin
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We changed the way the OneNote system tray process works a little bit in SP2. I want to explain the behavior we were seeing and show the bug fix we took. The system tray process is the application that handles screen clipping and side notes. You can see...
OneNote Testing
Using OneNote as an email creator lesson learned
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
John Guin
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If you've been reading this for awhile, you know I spent some time using OneNote to compose all my emails. I received an email from a tester on my team last week and needed to forward it. She had used OneNote to compose the original mail as well, but...
OneNote Testing
Some OneNote follow up items while my tablet is gone
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over 3 years ago
by
John Guin
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So my tablet PC is still being used for debugging and it is taking longer than anyone expected. No big deal, except that my notes I had collected about setting the page size are on that machine's hard drive. I didn't have time to copy them anywhere for...
OneNote Testing
Looking at the XML schema for page width and height in OneNote
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
John Guin
1
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I received an email a short time ago which had a request for a particular page size format. In short, the college student wanted to have page which was a fixed width, but infinite height in order to take all notes for a semester long class on one page...
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