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Monday, June 29, 2009 8:55 AM

Using Windows accessibility features to change the OneNote UI

Last week I showed how you change some global Windows font and color selections to make changes to the way OneNote displays. I also explained why you probably don't want to do this. Then over the weekend, I saw this question on the discussion group :
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:41 AM

You probably don’t want to do this to OneNote, but here’s how

I saw this question on the Outlook Newsgroup a few days ago: "Is there anyway to change the font size in the main outlook screen ( inbox...)? [I] want to keep the system font size..." And one of the replies said there was no way to change the
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Monday, June 22, 2009 8:46 AM

Did OneNote cause this? (Haiku included)

This is not so much about testing as life at Microsoft. Near our coffee machines is a little bench where you can sit and talk. And at the end of the bench cushions is a little area that serves as a coffee table. And about three months ago, this appeared
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Thursday, June 18, 2009 1:15 PM

Looking at design types of “bugs” is a challenge

One of the types of "bugs" I tend to report now and then tend to stretch the definition of "bug" a bit. At first glance, you could say bugs are code defects - any time the code does not perform to the design specification, you are
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Monday, June 15, 2009 7:49 AM

How you can give feedback or report a bug with OneNote

Every so often, I get an email or report on my blog about a suggestion, criticism or bug report about OneNote. This is great - I look at a criticism as a chance for us to do better!. I figured I would show another way you can give feedback or bug reports
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 6:02 PM

Looking at a bug we fixed in OneNote 2007 SP2

We changed the way the OneNote system tray process works a little bit in SP2. I want to explain the behavior we were seeing and show the bug fix we took. The system tray process is the application that handles screen clipping and side notes. You can see
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Monday, June 08, 2009 7:10 AM

Using OneNote as an email creator lesson learned

If you've been reading this for awhile, you know I spent some time using OneNote to compose all my emails. I received an email from a tester on my team last week and needed to forward it. She had used OneNote to compose the original mail as well, but
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:09 PM

Some OneNote follow up items while my tablet is gone

So my tablet PC is still being used for debugging and it is taking longer than anyone expected. No big deal, except that my notes I had collected about setting the page size are on that machine's hard drive. I didn't have time to copy them anywhere for
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 8:44 AM

Looking at the XML schema for page width and height in OneNote

I received an email a short time ago which had a request for a particular page size format. In short, the college student wanted to have page which was a fixed width, but infinite height in order to take all notes for a semester long class on one page.
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