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Monday, March 30, 2009 10:58 AM

Testing and using OneNote without a monitor

As another part of our recent accessibility push , we tested OneNote without monitors. It's hard to write about this since I can't include screenshots. If you want, you can simulate this yourself by reaching over and turning off your monitor - just be
Posted by JohnGuin | 3 Comments
Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:47 AM

You can always identify a OneNote tester by the pages in the notebook

Our test team has a meeting every Monday to go over general status, tasks for the week and all the other items that all teams have meetings for at every company. I've been to many (many, many, many ) meetings at Microsoft, and I'll estimate that over
Posted by JohnGuin | 1 Comments
Monday, March 23, 2009 8:26 AM

Another round of accessibility testing

Last fall I wrote about one of our Accessibility testing tasks . We just finished another round and since I saw this request on our discussion groups, I thought I should follow up. Last fall, we took a programmatic view of accessibility testing. WE checked
Posted by JohnGuin | 5 Comments
Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:16 AM

OneNote is in your tweets (and reading them, too!)

So I’m reading my email when Mike Tholfsen (of the OneNote and Education blog fame) sent this email to a bunch of customer focused people in Office: “Enter your product’s name into Twendz to see what customers are Tweeting about: http://twendz.waggeneredstrom.com/
Posted by JohnGuin | 6 Comments
Monday, March 16, 2009 9:23 AM

Troubleshooting differences between section groups and notebooks in OneNote 2007

One of the things that is different about OneNote is that we are a folder based editor - not an individual file based editor. A good example of a file based editor would be notepad. It works with a single text file at a time. You open the TXT file, edit
Posted by JohnGuin | 6 Comments
Thursday, March 12, 2009 7:51 AM

Explaining an easy hurdle to overcome with the Page Expander Powertoy for OneNote

One of the reasons it took me too long to finish the Page Expander powertoy (I haven’t used the Adapx pen in several months) was a problem I had when trying to update the page XML after setting the page size I wanted. I alluded to this on Monday when
Posted by JohnGuin | 1 Comments
Monday, March 09, 2009 7:49 AM

A powertoy to make using Adapx pens for OneNote a little easier for me

I managed to get my hands on a Capturx pen a while back from AdapX. If you haven't seen these pens, they are pretty nice - you can use their pen and their notebooks to take notes and sync the data to OneNote. It works well, but one aspect of the page
Posted by JohnGuin | 6 Comments
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Attachment(s): Page_Expander.zip
Tuesday, March 03, 2009 2:48 PM

A new OneNote Community site!

I saw this today and had to pass it on: there is a new OneNote community site at www.iheartonenote.com that I encourage you to check out! I haven't had a chance to check it out myself yet. Expect to see me over there once I get the registration set up.
Posted by JohnGuin | 1 Comments
Monday, March 02, 2009 1:52 PM

Canvas for OneNote is released, and I’ll be updating some stale download links

The server I had been using (winisp.net) got migrated over the weekend to a new topology. At this point, it looks like my repository of files I had on the server did not migrate properly. I apologize for the problems and will begin restoring them from
Posted by JohnGuin | 2 Comments

Attachment(s): Canvas Notebook.onepkg
 
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