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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
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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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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
Monday, December 01, 2008 7:07 AM

Reading the OneNote schema documentation helps prevent bugs

As I was working on the Calendar Page Make r powertoy for OneNote, I hit a problem at one point with trying to get the size of the columns in the table correct. I wanted my table to look like this: Time of Day A really wide column to hold the events Hopefully,
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 6:51 PM

A Calendar/Planner powertoy for OneNote!

I was reading the newsgroups again the other night and "SubSeaGuy" made this post: "I want to create a custom calendar. Rather than typing in the date on each page of which there would be 365, is there a way to import the page name. The example would
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 10:44 AM

OneNote Favorites updated with user requested feature

Shu Chen updated his Favorites addin again. You can get the updated version at the bottom of this page. He updated his addin based on these comments from Richard: "...MOVING the OneNote Folder from its position in IE Favorites into Links stops it working
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Monday, March 03, 2008 7:06 PM

A new OneNote Favorites Powertoy

Shu Chen, a tester working on OneNote, created an alternate Favorites addin for OneNote. It works much like the IE favorites model. You click the star icon with a green plus sign to add a page, section or notebook to the favorites list, and click the
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Attachment(s): ONFaves.zip
Thursday, January 17, 2008 7:12 AM

A summary of the OneNote powertoys from the test team for 2007

I was getting ready to post this list of the addins the OneNote Test Team worked on in the year 2007 as a nice summary of what we had done when I noticed two things: People on this alias may not be subscribed to my blog (shame!) but would want this list.
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:43 AM

How to create a "floating" toolbar in OneNote

Gary Neitzke took a few minutes to create a draft of how to create a "floating toolbar" with your addins for OneNote. This is the tecnique he used for the image rotator . I keep putting "floating toolbar" in quotes for a reason. This really isn't a toolbar,
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Saturday, December 15, 2007 10:05 AM

Notebook cleaner and privatizer powertoy

People that publish shared notebooks in some environments have a couple of requests which need to be addressed. First, suppose you are an administrator creating a section or some pages in a "New Employee Orientation" notebook which will be shared with
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 9:27 PM

Task Requests from OneNote Meeting Notes powertoy

The "Week of OneNote 2007 Powertoys" continues... One of the most frequent requests we hear for new OneNote functionality is "more integration with Outlook Tasks." Frustratingly, it always seems like no two people agree on what this means. A few users
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Monday, December 03, 2007 9:11 AM

Powertoys in development

I dropped a few hints last week about what we (the test team) has been doing recently. And one other hint was my lack of entries for a week in mid-November - I was on vacation. Vacation typically means long travel times, and what better way is there to
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:55 AM

Sharepoint notebook problems and another hint

One bug report we've been trying to track down has to do with sections from Notebooks on Sharepoint servers getting marked read only. One cause has been isolated, and David Rasmussen has the details here . It involves how your computer is set up to use
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 8:49 AM

An easier way to troubleshoot addins for OneNote

I got fed up with attaching a debugger to addins in OneNote. The typical process (as suggested by Dan Escapa) is to have your addin open a dialog when it starts, then attach to the running process while the dialog is onscreen. That got annoying rather
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Monday, November 19, 2007 7:29 AM

Table trouble

I had to relearn the lesson of paying attention to details recently. I was writing some code to work with OneNote's table XML via extensibility, and could not get my code to work correctly. After a couple of days of working on this in my spare time, I
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