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.
Source code for the Bulk Ink Eraser powertoy
The source code for this powertoy is attached below my signature at the end of this column. It's...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/13/2010
A OneNote 2010 powertoy to bulk erase ink
A math teacher from Canada sent me a request a couple of weeks ago for help. He had some pages that...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/02/2010
An addin to help Visual Studio users with moving code to OneNote
David Tinney sent me this really nifty addin for Visual Studio 2008. It lets you copy code with...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/29/2010
Tweaking OneNote 2010 to change scanning image insertion behavior
Over in the social newsgroup, a couple of folks noticed that scanned images into OneNote result in...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/22/2010
The work of work
This week has been very busy for me, and most of what I have been doing has not directly been...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/18/2010
Some testing lingo
Looking through the social group shows that I was using some "lingo" that the testers and...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/15/2010
Left is up and right is down
In a meeting earlier this week, I wanted to take some notes. Since there were not many folks the...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/11/2010
Printing just the selection in OneNote tip
This question came up in email over the weekend: "How do I print the current select of text in...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/08/2010
Helping a user who opened a folder as a notebook
Over on the social group, Rodut asked this question: "So I have two external drives I...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/04/2010
Using Author Names to track which machine I used to edit OneNote pages
Every so often I get a question about Author Names and how they work in OneNote. Folks who use more...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/01/2010
This week in OneNote Test
It's been awhile since I went over what the test team as a whole has been doing. Here's a snapshot...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/28/2010
Code for the table sorting powertoy for OneNote 2010
Way back when Nani wrote the Table of Contents for OneNote 2007, I looked at her code. She used a...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/25/2010
Table Sorting and Table of Contents powertoy for OneNote 2010
Nani, who created the original Table of Contents powertoy for OneNote 2007 expanded her code to add...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/22/2010
An obvious (to a tester) test case
I honestly don't remember when I ran this as an "ad hoc" test: In my share on SkyDrive, I...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/14/2010
A room full of testers can be very detail oriented
We had a meeting last week that was half aimed at developers and half aimed at testers. The meeting...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/11/2010
The XPS printer is needed by the Send to OneNote Printer
Just got back from a vacation and I had some printer questions waiting on me when I got back. ...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/07/2010
How to make OneNote 2010 speak to you
Did you know OneNote can talk? Here's how: Click File | Options to open the option dialog, then...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/23/2010
Word Count for OneNote 2010 powertoy
Jeff updated the Word Count powertoy for OneNote 2010. It's free over at...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/20/2010
Tip: Moving pages AND subpages together in OneNote 2010
This question showed up in my email last week and I thought it would also make a nice tip. The...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/20/2010
Tip: Open a specific page when starting OneNote 2007 or 2010
I was looking at the Facebook page for OneNote over the weekend (OneNote has a Facebook page - wow!)...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/16/2010
Ink shifting patch released today
For the select customers facing Inking issues with OneNote 2010 we highly recommend that you install...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/14/2010
Powertoy updated: OneNote 2010 Privatizer
Gary had some extra time so he updated the notebook cleaner and privatizer for OneNote 2010....
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/13/2010
Tip: Getting Smart Quotes into OneNote 2007 or 2010
Nezzie over on the social newsgroup wanted smart quotes - “ and ” - in OneNote. While...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/09/2010
The Migration to OneNote 2010 Guide and Adapx updates their pen software for 2010
Two nifty items crossed my plate over the Labor Day weekend here in the states. The first is the...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/07/2010
Moving offices
All my Facebook friends who work in the same building as I do have been posting photos of the big...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/02/2010
Source for the sort sections powertoy
As promised, here's the code for the sort sections powertoy. (Look at the end of this article under...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/30/2010
Updating the Sort Sections powertoy for OneNote 2010
Dan gave me the source code for his Sort Sections powertoy for OneNote 2007. Like all the powertoys...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/25/2010
New tester on the OneNote test team
We welcomed a new tester to the team this week (Hi Jenny!). There is a bit of work that we have to...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/23/2010
A highlighting question from the social group shows 2 solutions in OneNote
Over on the social discussion group for OneNote, a user posted this question: "...is there a...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/19/2010
Solving integrals with OneNote 2010 and the Mathematics add in
I tried this: After I entered the integral, I open the Mathematics tab and clicked Compute |...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/18/2010
Mathematics Add-in for OneNote 2010 is available
Just wanted to point this out - there is an addin for OneNote and Word that uses the equation...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/16/2010
Sync problems with SkyDrive - does Windows XP compatibility mode work for you?
First, apologies for the problems that some users are seeing with getting OneNote to connect to...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/13/2010
Getting Unfiled Notes on Skydrive, or just moving that section around
This is definitely more of a tip than anything else. Email showed up earlier this week asking how to...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/12/2010
Getting Send to OneNote working with Chrome
I saw this site and thought I'd pass it along:...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/10/2010
A Wiki Linking tip and a simple test matrix
A fellow sent an email the other day concerning a feature in OneNote 2010 we call "wiki linking." He...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/09/2010
Interesting - no more floppy drives
We (the OneNote team) are getting ready to be moved to new offices within our building. This causes...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/06/2010
My customized quick access bar
One of the things I tend to do when I use OneNote (as opposed to test the product) is to minimize...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/05/2010
What an odd "printer" bug
For some reason, I had this captured in my Unfiled Notes section: On a side note, the most classic...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/22/2010
A small app to show the OCR data on a OneNote page
An email came through my inbox a couple of weeks ago from a person who wanted to somehow or other...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/19/2010
The Tour de France, bicycles, math and OneNote
As far as sports go, I love the Tour de France. The colors, speed and scenery are always fun to...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/15/2010
A fix for one person that had problems with OneNote screen clipping
The old OneNote Discussion Group got migrated to a social group over on MSDN. This thread started a...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/12/2010
Calendar/Planner addin updated
Two events came together to get me to update this powertoy. First, a reader was trying to use this...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/08/2010
Fix for ink moving and shifting bug
(Update Sep 14): Fix is released on Window Update. (Update Sep 6): Just to bring everybody up to...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/30/2010
A great article about the OneNote Object Model on MSDN Magazine
Just wanted to point out this article on the OneNote Object Model was just published at MSDN...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/30/2010
The OneNote Test Team is Hiring!
Indeed we are. If you are interested in testing OneNote (and all that entails), jump...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/28/2010
One of the reasons the section color addin was easy to write
Was that I was able to use the same tree control from the Text Importer addin. Fortunately, the code...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/28/2010
The text importer powertoy gets updated for OneNote 2010
I saw a tweet a few days ago which mentioned that someone would have "no more thousands of text...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/24/2010
A recap of some of my feedback from my first week on the OneNote team
Way back when I came to the OneNote team in November 2006, I wrote a short list of comments and...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/21/2010
More machines arrive
Another fun day to come to work. This is a photo of the office of the person that orders our new...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/17/2010
Getting the OneNote section coloring powertoy to work better
Some minor challenges cropped up when I was working on the OSCO powertoy. In no particular order,...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/14/2010