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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, August 21, 2008 8:34 AM

Saying “goodbye to our intern” leads to a reason why a bug did not get fixed in Office 97

Anirudh Saraf is winding up his internship this week. He's been pretty busy while here - diving into the subtleties of Hyper-V , learning how to get machines working on our network domain, moving into Windows Server 2008, learning our automation system
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Monday, April 07, 2008 7:03 AM

Triaging our "tools" bug list

Last week we took a look at bugs we have opened in the "Tools" branch of our bug database. For OneNote, "tools" is a catchall for a wide range of differing areas: automation bugs, performance work needed, bugs with out test tools (which is probably the
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Friday, January 18, 2008 7:24 AM

OneNote Powertoys from the PM team, and a one question survey about them

A few astute readers pointed out I (intentionally) missed a few addins the OneNote team finished last year. Here they are: Search and Replace http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archive/2007/06/23/onenote-search-and-replace.aspx Send to OneNote http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archive/2007/02/15/send-to-onenote-2007-powertoy.aspx
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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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Monday, December 31, 2007 8:31 AM

Money times money = ?

Over on the OneNote Discussion Group, there is a comment about Napkin Math and its order of operations. In short, some users are noticing that simple formulas like: 1/2*4= shows as "0.125" in OneNote and not "2". Fair enough - it's a bug in OneNote, we
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:25 AM

A bug with the powertoy in development

We're polishing the tools I wrote about last time and getting ready to release them next week. The "bug bash" went well. We found some good corner cases to cause some different crashes, got new sets of eyes to provide feedback and generally had a good
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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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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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Monday, November 05, 2007 9:54 PM

Brouhaha with verifying my math script during automation week

I tried to get my automation script for payment verification as part of the napkin math area checked in. One of the testers on my team rejected it. Here's why. First, remember the equation I was using: pmt(0.05;36;30000)=1813.033713614259 Ultimately,
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:31 AM

Logs, Lns and Log10: OneNote gets it right

As I mentioned before, one of the areas of OneNote I took when I came to the team was what we call "Napkin Math." This the ability to type equations like 8-4= And getting a "4" when you press Enter or the spacebar. It also works for basic trigonometric
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Friday, September 07, 2007 8:03 AM

Make Subpage addin updated, and a Lenovo update

Thanks to a couple of testers (pebuaa and Joe), Jeff Cardon patched his make subpage addin to work in section groups. Update as of 3/12/2009 - the download link is at the end of this blog entry after my signature. I'm marking the next paragraph NA - winisp
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 2:59 PM

A good bug report with the Replace the Outlook Sticky Notes folder with OneNote

One of the bugs discovered with the powertoy to start OneNote instead of opening the Outlook sticky notes folder came onto my plate looking like this: Install the addin Start Outlook Open the sticky notes folder Click the folder again Result: 2 instances
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Monday, August 27, 2007 9:33 AM

The story of the bug with merge pages

Theo Buis found a bug in the merge pages powertoy. He lives in the Netherlands and the addin was crashing when he tried to merge pages. Since "owning" these tools is just as important as creating them - we want to respond to bug reports, questions and
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