I just noticed this and thought I would pass it along.  If you hold down the ALT key while clicking a word in OneNote (or Word and other Office applications), the Research pane will open and search all the references for that word – this includes...

Last week I had an automated test I own begin to fail. The functionality tested is our keyboard shortcuts to expand/collapse outlines. SHIFT+ALT+1 shrinks an outline to just level 1 items, and SHIFT+ALT+0 expands it all back. In other words, suppose I...

So after getting the cache file in place with my automated test, I will invoke the optimize command. You can do this yourself by clicking File | Options | Save and Backup | Optimize All Files Now. This will cause OneNote to examine the cache to see if...

As I was looking around earlier this week, I just happened to notice that my personal OneNote usage has really gone up these last few weeks. I guess I take having my notes for granted so much that I am a little amazed at how much I use OneNote on a daily...

I was trying to write an automated test recently that would verify our cache optimize functionality. Specifically, the test first needed to copy a .onecache file that was in need of optimization to the machine which would run the test. So I added a quick...

According to Forbes, our testers here have the happiest job in America: http://www.forbes.com/pictures/efkk45gmhl/1-software-quality-assurance-engineer/#gallerycontent if you just want to see the (Slideshow) list and here is the full article: http://www...

I saw this bug much like this get filed last week: Error condition: Open one of our debugging logs and see this: CEntity found as: <null>, replcaed with Expected behavior: Spell "replcaed" as "replaced" The developer who had to fix...

I was parsing a OneNote debugging log around here recently and noticed this line in the log: "<<time stamp>> OneNote: No failure detected. Resuming." And that was it. No log entry preceded it suggesting a possible failure. To step...