OneNote Testing
What it is like to be a tester on the Microsoft OneNote team and day to day life as an SDET in Office. Plus a few tips for using OneNote and an occasional powertoy.
A nice tip for getting ASCII art to display in OneNote
I stumbled across a nice tip from Jason Mick about getting ASCII art to display in OneNote over on...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/20/2012
How the mighty (monitor stands) have fallen
My monitor stand, which I had to assemble on my own when we got a good deal on monitors with no...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/16/2012
A rare chance to get to explore a bit in OneNote
I was playing around with OneNote the other day (yes, just playing around - not working, testing or...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/13/2012
Onenote for Android is available!
This is really great. Onenote is now available for Android! Full details are here:...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/07/2012
From little acorns do big trees grow
It's never easy to predict where ideas from this blog will go. I received an email recently which...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/06/2012
Pin a OneNote page to the desktop
Omer updated his onetastic powertoy to give the capability to pin individual pages to the desktop....
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/03/2012
Making Mufflers at Microsoft
It's Midyear Check In time at Microsoft this month. At this point, we all sit down with our managers...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/02/2012
Monitor problems
If it's not one thing, it's another. I've had bad luck with monitors since last Friday and currently...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/30/2012
Powertoys from the test team for 2011
It's been a fairly busy year for the OneNote test team. One way I can give some...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/26/2012
Source code for the OneNote Table Sorter and Table of Contents powertoy
Odd - I normally blog on Monday and Thursday. I looked back at the last few weeks and between...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/23/2012
Cropping screenshots in OneNote 2010
Omer updated his toy to allow clippings in OneNote to be cropped! Have you ever clipped something...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/03/2012
Another tip for getting Unfiled Notes on Skydrive
This question came to me again a few times this last week. On the one hand, this means more OneNote...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/19/2011
A poweruser tip to moving OneNote files around to free hard drive space
Dan is a buddy of mine here at MS and he was facing the problem of his hard drive (c: drive) getting...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/15/2011
Some new powertoys for OneNote
Omer is a developer on the OneNote team and has a set of powertoys he wrote on his own time that he...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/30/2011
How I view OneNote automation
I had an interesting discussion this last week with a tester about the purpose of automation for...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/17/2011
Network problems causing grief
Last week could have gone so much better but our building is experiencing some network problems....
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/14/2011
Filtering the tag summary page to have only the tagged information you want
I mentioned on Monday that you can use the Tag Summary page to show you only the tags in OneNote you...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/10/2011
Use note tag colors to prioritize information on a OneNote page
I got a question from Denis last week that went like this: "[I] have different priorities on my...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/07/2011
Source code for OneCal
Not much to talk about here. Just about all the code here is set up to draw the calendar and compute...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/03/2011
Calendar view power toy for OneNote 2010
Omer, one of our developers here, kicked out a nice little powertoy for OneNote 2010 that lets you...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/31/2011
Tip: Quickly getting to Zoom commands in OneNote
I catch myself needing to zoom on pages in OneNote more and more frequently. Typically, I have a...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/13/2011
No phone for new testers
As I was (sort of successfully) getting our new tester's office set up for her, I opened a box...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/10/2011
Setting procmon to put logs in the TEMP folder
One of the testers on the team assigned a bug to me that concerns a test tool we use regularly....
Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/06/2011
Fighting with video cables, monitor stands and power supplies
Last week I was given a couple of machines to set up for a new tester who starts tomorrow. (She's...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/03/2011
Digging through email this week
I don't know if my blog got re-indexed by google, Bing and the other search sites or what, but I am...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/30/2011
Getting a lot done today
Just a short post today since I am getting a ton of work items completed. I don't want to interrupt...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/26/2011
Updated source code for the Table Sum powertoy for OneNote
Like I mentioned earlier, there is really not much different between this code and the powertoy for...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/22/2011
Table Sum toy updated for OneNote 2010
I got a couple of user requests recently to update the table sum powertoy that I wrote for OneNote...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/19/2011
The OneNote 2010 XML Schema Definition is now posted
We uploaded the XSD for our 2010 schema definition at...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/14/2011
A new monitor cable makes it feel like I got a new machine
For quite a while now, I have had a 24 inch monitor. I have it connected to a junction box that lets...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/12/2011
Getting an image from OneNote automation into email
One of our tools we use to test OneNote inserts images onto a page via our extensibility model. It...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/08/2011
Back from a few days off, and a batch file would not work
I got back into my office after a few days off and had an email to install a new monitoring tool. I...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/01/2011
OneNote tip: setting the width of the default note container
One of our internal OneNote users sent an email last week asking to somehow set the width of a...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/22/2011
A quick tool to clean up a folder and save me some time
When I got to work this morning, I looked into a folder on a file server for the results of...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/18/2011
Planning for a new level of verifications in automation
I'm getting ready to check in a new level of verification for our automated tests. The verification...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/15/2011
OneNote tip: getting OneNote to prompt you for where to store stuff
I've gotten this question a few times now and once more last night made me think this may be worth...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/11/2011
Using our test code repository to my (and OneNote’s) advantage
We have a lot of test tools we use around the OneNote test team. Some are available to everyone...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/08/2011
Three hardware changes around the OneNote testing hallway
This week saw three hardware happenings around the hallways of OneNote. And in the best interest of...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/04/2011
"Behind the scenes" with the recent OneNote and Education post
Last week Michael wrote a great blog post about using OneNote in education. It has video, some good...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/01/2011
OneNote Spy (omspy) for OneNote 2010
Ilya created the OneNote OM Spy tool back in 2007. Here it is updated for OneNote 2010. It works...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/28/2011
Sad day - the twitter feed monitoring OneNote is gone
We needed the monitor for some other tasking. It's actually kind of sad. I was getting used to...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/25/2011
A crashing bug in our test tools is finally fixed
We have a test tool we run every day that was crashing in certain circumstances. Specifically, it...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/21/2011
An oil spill takes out our test server?
In one of our labs, we have (had?) a moderately powerful machine. It was a Dell dual core server...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/18/2011
Using AutoHotKey to open a specific OneNote page
One of our internal OneNote users wanted a desktop shortcut to automatically open a specific page in...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/14/2011
OneNote Section Color Powertoy updated for OneNote 2010
Now that SP1 for Office 2010 is out the door, I wanted to update the section color changer powertoy....
Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/11/2011
Patricia Walsh sets a triathlon world record (and tests OneNote too!)
Way to go Patricia! Full details here:...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/06/2011
Service Pack 1 is available for OneNote (and Office) 2010
I don't know how I missed blogging this - Office 2010 SP1 is now available. It has some improvements...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/02/2011