The past few months have been pretty busy for the test team, but busy in a good way. We just finished shipping the Office 2007 suite last fall, and even though it is finished, we still have plenty of work on our plate. In unprioritized order, here...

Note: as of Jan 5, 2009, there is a slightly updated version of this powertoy at http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin/archive/2009/01/05/a-small-update-to-the-onenote-table-of-contents-powertoy.aspx . Sorry for not being able to update these original files...

Someone asked me where I get some of the ideas for the powertoys I create. Mostly, I steal the ideas from Dan Escapa J , but I also check out our discussion group at http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?lang=en&cr=US&dg...

Since I do not want to crack open my Lenovo, I decided to use Vista's ability to lower the amount of RAM available to the OS. If you want to set this yourself, click Start | Run and run MSCONFIG. Click the Boot tab and int eh advanced options dialog there...

I was reading some blogs about OneNote and stumbled across this one: http://www.gottabemobile.com/ReadyBoostWithASDCardYesOrNo.aspx . In it, the author (Warner Crocker) makes a comment that OneNote loads much faster with ReadyBoost on Vista enabled...

For users who cannot see the button even after following the previous steps, try reinstalling and installing for "All users." Sigh. I wish I had time to work through the nuances of Visual Studio setup projects, but that is outside my realm of expertise...

I've received some feedback that the toolbar button for the Copy to Device addin is not being shown.     I tried this myself and found a couple of cases in which this would happen.     First, my tablet has a 1024x768 screen, which is small by today...

If you look carefully at the code for the Copy to Device addin (which needs a good name) you will also notice I used Pascal Casing and Daniel used camel Casing.     I thought about refactoring the code to be consistent with .net framework guidelines...

One of the tricks I like to use is creation of a log file while my addin runs.  I typically will log any errors the addin hits. In the case of the Copy to Mobile addin, I decided to add some logging to the file and keep track of the pageIDs which have...

I had hoped to go over some of the testing for the copy to device addin, but my tablet (Thinkpad X60t) interfered.     Since I got it in January, I've had nothing but problems. It came with bad ram. Blue screened after about a day every day. Sent...