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Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:01 AM

I made some changes to my dogfood machine

  I’ve made some changes with my dogfood machine.  I’m still using the Windows 7 beta, but I’m making changes centered around 2 areas:  accessibility and international testing. First, I’ve changed my font setting
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Monday, January 26, 2009 7:29 AM

How I judge the "OneNote Testing" blog

One of my commitments which I added to my list here at work is maintaining this blog. It's been almost two years now and while it's been quite a bit of fun, I sometimes feel the need to quantify how effective this has been. One of my goals has been to
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Thursday, January 22, 2009 7:43 AM

I love test tools - they make testing OneNote much easier

Earlier this week I opened up my list of bugs assigned to me and noticed I had one that was asking for more information. The details are long, arcance and, frankly boring, but the gist of the bug was some timing related problems if a user was both creating
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Monday, January 19, 2009 7:59 AM

Living in the cache, part 4

I saw this question over on the discussion groups : "Some time back you posted that you lost access to your "real" notebook and were working exclusively in the cache.  Then I think something happened to your real notebook. I was just
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Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:50 AM

My current OneNote dogfood configuration

I got an email asking for more details about how I have OneNote "set up" for my daily work here at MS. Fair enough - here's what I am currently using. For my primary dogfood machine, I use my infamous Lenovo tablet. I just installed the Windows 7 Beta
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:36 AM

List of powertoys from the test team for 2008

The end of the year means it is time to recap the powertoys the test team created during 2008. While not as many as last year , we still managed to produce a handful of addins. We have (maybe not obviously) been much more busy testing and such and it
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 7:51 AM

Source code for the OneNote Merge Pages powertoy and a tedious test task

Reader Mark Jordan made a request last week for the source code for the Merge Pages powertoy at http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin/archive/2007/08/16/merge-pages-in-onenote-powertoy.aspx . Jeff Cardon graciously agreed to release it, and you can download
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Attachment(s): merge_pages_source.zip
Monday, January 05, 2009 7:56 AM

A small update to the OneNote Table of Contents Powertoy

Over the in the OneNote Discussion Group , Mike made this request for a change to the Table of Contents Powertoy: "I have downloaded and used the TOC power toy. Again a great thing! However, is there any way to make the power toy produce a table of contents
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Attachment(s): TableOfContentsSetup.zip
 
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