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Thursday, April 30, 2009 7:32 AM

An anecdote about dogfooding OneNote

I went into another tester's office yesterday to get some information about a project we are tracking. He keeps this information in a notebook (not shared, which is why I was there) and was using a new build of OneNote on his dogfood machine. He tried
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Monday, April 27, 2009 8:11 AM

Duplicate bugs – a simple example

An email came through my inbox last week which was asking the question: "What does 'Duplicate' for bug resolution mean?" It's a good question and since we use a similar process over at http://connect.microsoft.com I figured I would take this
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 5:09 PM

64 bit printer for OneNote solution available

David Rasmussen released a solution for the Send To OneNote printer not working on 64 bit systems.  Here’s the link to the project: http://xps2onenote.codeplex.com/   and a link to his blog entry: http://blogs.msdn.com/david_rasmussen/archive/2009/04/22/onenote-print-driver-a-64-bit-solution.aspx
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Monday, April 20, 2009 2:59 PM

Using OneNote on four different machines: a simple case study from the test team

So I was sitting in my office and thinking about what to write about life in the OneNote Testing organization when Mike Tholfsen walked into my office and proudly announced "I've got the latest build of OneNote installed on all four of my dogfood
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:07 PM

Live.com just outdid OneNote in napkin math – they solve for variables now

This is great - did you notice that www.live.com now supports variables in its napkin math functionality? Try going there and typing 5x-2=0, like this: When you carry out your search by hitting Enter, Live solves for x: So it solves for x = 2/5, or .4.
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Monday, April 13, 2009 5:18 PM

Investigating a highly intermittent automation failure

One of our developers here ran my napkin math automation script the other day and reported it had a bogus failure while evaluating an equation. Now, napkin math is a fairly bulletproof feature so I was a bit skeptical that a bug in OneNote had been uncovered.
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Thursday, April 09, 2009 8:20 AM

A low key, low stress “hardware week” in OneNote test

"Hardware week," my own term, is usually pretty fun. I define hardware week as any week in which I get new hardware to replace old and get to spend some amount of time getting it set up. It's typically a nice break from standard testing work.
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Monday, April 06, 2009 9:28 AM

Testing the AutoHotKey script for sending data to OneNote

I spent the last week showing everyone I could how slick Jordan's AutoHotKey script for OneNote is. Thanks again, Jordan ! Oh, and Ani has already patched the routine to start a new SideNote automatically in case you don't have OneNote running beforehand.
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Thursday, April 02, 2009 4:50 PM

A really great tip to make getting information into OneNote much easier

While I greatly prefer to create content for my blog rather than linking to other blogs, this tip from Justin Knight is just far too handy to overlook. Before I get into it, I want to give you the sales pitch. Suppose you are reading some document on
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