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Wednesday, December 27, 2006 5:20 AM

OneNote 2007 Upgrade version

If you looked on the 2007 Microsoft Office system pricing site you may have noticed that OneNote didn't have an update price : ( It only listed the full price of OneNote so regardless of if you purchased OneNote in the past you wouldn't get a discount
Posted by descapa | 14 Comments
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 4:51 AM

Betsy Weber’s OneNote screencast

I am back in the office for a couple days and I saw an interesting email from Kathy Jacobs and she pointed out that she and Betsy Weber (from TechSmith ) did a screencast about OneNote 2007 . I am watching it now and it is worth checking out! Kathy really
Posted by descapa | 0 Comments
Friday, December 15, 2006 2:28 AM

Trait of good software: it fails gracefully

I was just thinking today about what makes good software and what doesn't and something that came to mind was how well does software fail. Think about that for a second, in an ideal world software works just as we designed it and how the coders coded
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Thursday, December 14, 2006 7:13 PM

Using HTTPS to sync with SharePoint on Vista

Consider this: on Windows XP you could sync to a SharePoint server in the cloud such as Office Live using just HTTP. Now when you upgrade to Windows Vista if you try and do this exact same thing you will get an error. That is due to changes in the Vista
Posted by descapa | 10 Comments
Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:00 PM

Bridging the gap, getting others to love OneNote too

The other day I got an email from an old high school friend, Rob who uses OneNote and reads this blog (hi Rob). It was pretty cool to get in touch with someone I knew because of OneNote and to hear that they liked it was even better! It got me thinking
Posted by descapa | 9 Comments
Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:04 AM

OneNote Blogger Roundup

Here is the most recent blog update from Mike our test manager. OneNote has fans in high places: "I needed OneNote, and what do you know? God provided it." " what, in my humble opinion, is one of the most important new pieces of software of the last decade.
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006 2:30 AM

OneNote 2007 Templates

I have been working with Sheila who works on Office Online to get the OneNote templates up on Office Online. You can see them here: OneNote 2007 templates These are the same templates that you would see in OneNote when you chose File-->New-->Notebook.
Posted by descapa | 6 Comments
Monday, December 11, 2006 6:56 PM

Hamachi – tunneling and VPN for the masses

The other day David and I were talking as he was leaving for the evening and he was telling me about Hamachi ; their own words: LogMeIn Hamachi is a zero-configuration virtual private networking (VPN) application. In other words Hamachi is a program that
Posted by descapa | 3 Comments
Friday, December 08, 2006 3:16 AM

Debugging the OneNote API? Enable logging!

One new feature in the RTM version of OneNote 2007 is the ability to enable logging for the OneNote API such that you can see what is going wrong and get some debug information from OneNote. Some notes: If you turn on logging make sure to TURN it OFF
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Thursday, December 07, 2006 11:55 PM

Shutdown options in Vista and restarting

With all of the blog posts about the shutdown options in Vista ( Choices = Headaches by Joel Spolsky, The Windows Shutdown crapfest & The Design of the Mac OS X Shutdown Feature ) I thought I would add a couple thoughts of my own. First of all I thought
Posted by descapa | 5 Comments
Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:18 PM

Trial install – Don’t uninstall and reinstall - UPDATED

We have gotten some reports from people having problems with the trial. Here are the repro steps: Down the OneNote 2007 trial Activate their product and see encounter a problem Uninstall OneNote Fix their problem Install trial again The trial says that
Posted by descapa | 3 Comments
Wednesday, December 06, 2006 9:53 PM

OneNote Viewer – Try the trial instead

Chris has a great post: OneNote Viewer , here is a preview: I sometimes get asked if there is a "viewer" available for OneNote files. There are viewers available for Word, Excel and PowerPoint (among others) so this is a natural question. The answer for
Posted by descapa | 2 Comments
Tuesday, December 05, 2006 9:29 PM

Outlook Sidebar Gadgets, should OneNote get one too?

Over on Melissa's & Ryan's blog they announce the Outlook 2007 Sidebar gadgets for download:  Outlook Upcoming Appointments – shows you your upcoming appointments.  Outlook Tasks – shows you your tasks and flagged mail all in one place, plus gives
Posted by descapa | 25 Comments
Tuesday, December 05, 2006 1:55 AM

Cool sharing features – improvements for shared notebooks

So you and your coworkers have a shared notebook setup to discuss different todo items, meeting notes and project plans. OneNote is a great place for you to share all of this information; it syncs seamlessly and you can take it offline. One thing that
Posted by descapa | 0 Comments
Tuesday, December 05, 2006 1:17 AM

OneNote 2003 on a UMPC

If you are using OneNote 2003 on a UMPC make sure that you download and install this update: Update for OneNote 2003 (KB917148) As the text on the site says: Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Office OneNote 2003. When you write with the pen
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006 1:09 AM

Support for OneNote 2007

With OneNote out the door you all might have questions so I thought I would write about how you can get support. You can contact Product Support over the phone or through your company. If you are a volume license customer you can go through your own Microsoft
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Friday, December 01, 2006 6:57 PM

Download the trial today! You can get Office 2007

Today is Dec 1st and that means that you can download the trial of Office 2007 (including OneNote 2007)! Download the Office 2007 Trial now The trial will work for approximately 60 days so you can download it now and you will be all set to use this until
Posted by descapa | 3 Comments
 
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