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Thursday, September 17, 2009 5:14 PM

Super OneNote power user tip: Moving outlines one pixel at a time

Kim sent me an email wanting to know if it was possible to fine tune the position of outlines on a page. She wanted the fine tuning to be one pixel at a time, and she also wanted this functionality to be accessible via the keyboard. After poking around
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:24 AM

Free OneNote "cheat sheet"

Check this out: Lifehacker found some free cheat sheets for many office products (and other apps) at http://lifehacker.com/5360395/customguide-provides-quick+reference-sheets-for-microsoft-apple-and-adobe-products . The reason this jumped out at me was
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Monday, August 31, 2009 7:53 AM

A quick test and tip for OneNote audio search

Looking through the newsgroup this weekend showed this comment : basically, this person was having some difficulty getting audio search working well. I had some problems with this in the past and wanted to share a tip to possibly get this working better
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Thursday, July 09, 2009 3:16 PM

A registry key for OneNote worth backing up

Looking through my Sent Items folder in Outlook for the past few weeks, I realized I had asked and told a few people about this registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\OneNote\OpenNotebooks I've had to modify the contents of this
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Monday, May 11, 2009 7:15 AM

Changing the format for the Inserted Date and Time in OneNote

I saw this question posted last week on a previous post I had discussing the Date/Time format in OneNote. I also got a few emails asking this same question from different users so I figured this may be interesting to write about. "I am having trouble
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:03 AM

Code for image rotator and some upcoming work for test

I got a request a few days ago to see about posting the code for the image rotator powertoy. Gary agreed to go ahead and release his code and you can get it here now. The link is at the bottom of this entry. Another request that comes up every so often
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Friday, April 25, 2008 8:56 AM

A OneNote Tips blog has started

This is great news: Jeff Cardon, the fellow who brought us the Print Manager powertoy, the CRM addin for OneNote and more useful powertoys than I can list here has started a OneNote tips blog over at here: http://blogs.msdn.com/onenotetips [update: new
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:29 AM

A few Outlook tips

Since I was on Outlook for so many years, I have been asked many, many questions on it. I want to share my top tips, and offer one warning about a feature in Outlook as well. Let's jump right in. Create a rule to delay sending all items by two minutes.
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Monday, March 24, 2008 7:44 AM

Top 5 OneNote tips, and a nice little win

A request I get face to face is "What is a way to get more out of OneNote?" I don't think I've ever gotten this in email - must be something about the way people interact. So after a year of using it far more than I ever did before, though, I want to
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Friday, March 07, 2008 7:48 AM

Still "living in the OneNote cache"

Last week when my tablet died I lost the hard drive which held the most important notebook I use in my day to day work. I was fortunate enough to have shared the notebook and connected to it from a second machine. Here's what I immediately did to ensure
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:30 AM

Some soon to be updated documentation for napkin math

I had an old machine give out on me earlier this week. The memory on it had started giving parity errors, and the hard drive finally went out completely - fdisk simply would not even run any more. This particular machine had been the machine I use to
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Monday, January 14, 2008 8:35 AM

Using existing tools to make reading books with OneNote easier

I found a really great service which helps me catch up on my long overdue list of books I want to read. The website is www.dailylit.com and they have a fairly large collection of public domain and new books which they "get" to you. Their method of delivery
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Monday, January 07, 2008 7:59 AM

Tracking a bug with video and seeing it change into a tip for OneNote users

Gary Neitzke and I both discovered the same "bug" with OneNote last week. We both entered a bug with repro steps (the step by step directions on how to get a bug to occur) like this: Create a new page in any notebook Open the page setup taskbar (via File
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