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Monday, July 30, 2007 4:14 PM

Trying to use OneNote to go 100% paperless on a trip, and not hitting that goal

For the first time in a long time, I had some time away from work and did NOT write an addin for OneNote. For the record, the Gutenberg addin was written on a plane to and in a tent in Korea. The text importer was written on a flight to Orlando and during
Posted by JohnGuin | 5 Comments
Monday, July 23, 2007 8:01 AM

The (slow) tree control I use in my addins

Back when was working on my text file importer and the Project Gutenberg addin ( http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin/archive/2007/05/31/a-tool-to-import-texts-from-project-gutenberg.aspx ), I mentioned the tree control I used to allow you to choose where you
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Thursday, July 19, 2007 12:52 PM

Favorites for OneNote

Looking through the website http://www.onenotepowertoys.com (I have no idea who owns this site - update: looks like it hasn't been updated in awhile), I saw a request for something like IE favorites: Favorites Page with Hot-Key - Sort of like IE favorites.
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Attachment(s): onfav.zip
Monday, July 16, 2007 12:43 PM

Using customer feedback to alter testing plans

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 is
Posted by JohnGuin | 1 Comments
Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:28 PM

Table of Contents powertoy!

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
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Monday, July 09, 2007 10:48 AM

Monitoring the discussion groups

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=microsoft.public.onenote
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Thursday, July 05, 2007 7:32 AM

More speed boost testing

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
Posted by JohnGuin | 1 Comments
Monday, July 02, 2007 4:42 PM

A cheap speed increase for OneNote

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. I'm
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