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December 2007 - Posts

Monday, December 31, 2007 8:31 AM

Money times money = ?

Over on the OneNote Discussion Group, there is a comment about Napkin Math and its order of operations. In short, some users are noticing that simple formulas like: 1/2*4= shows as "0.125" in OneNote and not "2". Fair enough - it's a bug in OneNote, we
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Thursday, December 27, 2007 9:11 AM

Updating the easy way to debug addins

I received a few questions about my tip concerning a quicker way to troubleshoot addins during development. As mentioned in the comments, OneNote needs to exit before rebuilding and replacing your DLL. Since I normally take a while between debugging sessions,
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 7:30 AM

The obligatory end of the year summary from OneNote Testing

I've been in OneNote for just over a year now. Since the purpose of this blog is describing the day to day life of OneNote testers, I want to sum up the work we have completed in the past year, how well we have performed and give an idea of where I think
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Friday, December 21, 2007 8:42 AM

Journal to OneNote Importer

Lin Wang finished fine tuning the Windows Journal Importer tool and here it is. Just like it's name says, this tool will let you import your Windows Journal files from your tablet into OneNote. It's not strictly a OneNote addin - it installs into the
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:43 AM

How to create a "floating" toolbar in OneNote

Gary Neitzke took a few minutes to create a draft of how to create a "floating toolbar" with your addins for OneNote. This is the tecnique he used for the image rotator . I keep putting "floating toolbar" in quotes for a reason. This really isn't a toolbar,
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:51 AM

Some initial results from the "Week of OneNote Powertoys"

I've heard from quite a few people already via email and comments and seen indirectly some great feedback via other blogs on the "Week of OneNote Powertoys." And as usual, I was surprised by the most popular addin: the Task Request from Meeting Notes
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Saturday, December 15, 2007 10:05 AM

Notebook cleaner and privatizer powertoy

People that publish shared notebooks in some environments have a couple of requests which need to be addressed. First, suppose you are an administrator creating a section or some pages in a "New Employee Orientation" notebook which will be shared with
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Friday, December 14, 2007 5:40 PM

Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Image Rotation Tool Gary Neitzke decided to close a small functionality hole in OneNote. It's easy to rotate ink or drawings you create, but images cannot be rotated. Enter Gary's Image Rotation Powertoy. This one is great for a couple of reasons. First,
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 7:50 PM

Template Manager Powertoy for OneNote 2007

We're halfway through the "Week of OneNote Powertoys!" Remember: these addins make great stocking stuffers... Again, Jeff Cardon has created an incredibly useful addin for OneNote 2007. His template manager lets you create and apply templates to notebooks.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:24 PM

Media Fine Tuner Powertoy for OneNote

For those of you who take notes while recording audio, Jeff Cardon has created a fine tuner for "moving" the start time of the notes you typed and aligning them with where in the audio you want the note to play. For those of you who haven't tried this
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 9:27 PM

Task Requests from OneNote Meeting Notes powertoy

The "Week of OneNote 2007 Powertoys" continues... One of the most frequent requests we hear for new OneNote functionality is "more integration with Outlook Tasks." Frustratingly, it always seems like no two people agree on what this means. A few users
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Monday, December 10, 2007 6:42 PM

Table Sum Powertoy for OneNote

As promised, here is the first of a week's worth of addins/powertoys for OneNote 2007. This addin will sum the columns of a table for you and add the new row to the bottom. It ignores non-numeric values in the column. It's only requirement is that you
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:25 AM

A bug with the powertoy in development

We're polishing the tools I wrote about last time and getting ready to release them next week. The "bug bash" went well. We found some good corner cases to cause some different crashes, got new sets of eyes to provide feedback and generally had a good
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Monday, December 03, 2007 9:11 AM

Powertoys in development

I dropped a few hints last week about what we (the test team) has been doing recently. And one other hint was my lack of entries for a week in mid-November - I was on vacation. Vacation typically means long travel times, and what better way is there to
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