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What it is like to be a tester on the Microsoft OneNote team and day to day life as an SDET in Office. Plus a few tips for using OneNote and an occasional powertoy.
This is a sad day around the OneNote test hallway. After more than 6 years of regular blogging I am...
Date: 09/26/2014
This week I received a note from a user who is in the process of repairing a 1969 Camaro. He wants...
Date: 07/31/2014
A OneNote user was printing from OneNote last week and when she printed, she kept seeing a little...
Date: 07/28/2014
For years, I have called people at work “Boss.” “Hey, boss” is a pretty typical greeting from...
Date: 07/21/2014
Just posting this since this is the single biggest helpful piece of information I have available...
Date: 07/09/2014
A few months ago I wrote a tip about emptying the Recycle Bin to save space...
Date: 06/30/2014
A few weeks ago I had the idea to get a Raspberry Pi set up to display the tweets sent about...
Date: 06/25/2014
Testing the change I made was fairly straightforward and is a good example of a small, but complete,...
Date: 06/16/2014
When we shipped OneNote 2013 SP1, we changed the way we printed long documents to OneNote. I'm happy...
Date: 06/12/2014
This week I was given a small set of bugs that ultimately amounted to saying we are still using the...
Date: 06/09/2014
No idea how I missed this considering Tim and I are on the same team. He was offered the...
Date: 06/05/2014
Omer has updated his Onetastic addin to combine a lot of the most common requests I get for sorting...
Date: 05/27/2014
One of the more powerful aspects of our bug tracking is that bugs can be closed but still assigned...
Date: 05/19/2014
We love our coffee in OneNote. We have the Microsoft provided Starbucks machines, a Tassimo espresso...
Date: 05/16/2014
For me, this was an unusual time away. I had no internet access so I am working to get caught up...
Date: 05/13/2014
Over the weekend I decided we had been without our twitter feed long enough and decided to do...
Date: 04/28/2014
For those of you running OneNote from the Windows Store, we released a small update yesterday....
Date: 04/24/2014
This is not at all related to the end of my Lenovo tablet, but last week I got a new HP machine and...
Date: 04/21/2014
Reader Heather C. contacted me recently with a question about how to get table rows to show with...
Date: 04/15/2014
My blog seems to have dropped a couple of articles so I am working with our support team to track...
Date: 04/09/2014
Reader Erin S. contacted me about how to move or copy parent pages and subpages from one section to...
Date: 04/07/2014
Long time readers will know my love/hate relationship with my old Lenovo tablet. I loved the...
Date: 04/02/2014
I was hosting a meeting this week and had OneNote on the display. I opened a notebook that was named...
Date: 03/27/2014
One of the benefits we get from Watson and our internal usage of OneNote is that we get a different...
Date: 03/21/2014
Wow - we shipped a TON of stuff today. OneNote for the Mac, a free OneNote for Windows users, the...
Date: 03/17/2014
One of the challenges of working at Microsoft, or at any job really, is continually learning new...
Date: 03/14/2014
Last week I mentioned a fix we made that makes tables load faster in the modern OneNote client. I...
Date: 03/11/2014
Thanks to a slew of folks that helped test this, I am posting another version of the text file...
Date: 03/07/2014
Way back in 2007 when I started this blog, I had an idea to take a look at a bug we fixed and write...
Date: 03/04/2014
One of the challenges of testing around Office is ensuring all the code changes partner teams make...
Date: 02/20/2014
I was cleaning up a laptop over this weekend and was trying to free some space on the hard drive....
Date: 02/17/2014
One of the changes in the marketplace since we shipped OneNote 2013 was the rise of high resolution...
Date: 02/13/2014
The 4 week Coursera class we took for Data Analytics is done. We took several approaches to this...
Date: 02/06/2014
I hit this situation last week and I am not sure if everyone knows this tip for making tables from...
Date: 02/03/2014
We had a small test pass last week using the Windows Phone version of OneNote. We had four testers...
Date: 01/30/2014
This week I was contacted by a fellow using OneNote and he had a couple of questions about inking....
Date: 01/27/2014
I want to take a bit to describe one facet of working with partner teams. This type of activity...
Date: 01/23/2014
Just a quick note today that our job posting is live at...
Date: 01/13/2014
I was looking through various posts about OneNote and noticed several folks had wanted the ability...
Date: 01/10/2014
I have been spending the last few weeks honing some of my math skills as we start to approach some...
Date: 01/06/2014
Looking back over my blog here, I don't think I have ever done a book review. I spent the last...
Date: 12/13/2013
I was out of the office last week (enjoying some Texas BBQ) and of course that was the week I got a...
Date: 12/09/2013
We just released a major update for OneNote for Windows Blue! This was a lot of hard work for test...
Date: 11/25/2013
I was testing some of the accessible features in OneNote and had to use the Magnifying tool in...
Date: 11/21/2013
Just a funny anecdote today. I overheard a developer mention that writing code for OneNote was easy,...
Date: 11/19/2013
I got an email this week that asked about a problem I faced years ago. A OneNote user was pasting...
Date: 11/14/2013
Back in May, I wrote a little about A/B testing for OneNote and used napkin math as an example. We...
Date: 11/13/2013
I got an email from a OneNote user that was printing to OneNote and noticing that all of his...
Date: 11/08/2013