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.
Couldn't miss the chance to pass this along. Dragonshorn Studios released a TEX (equation) editor...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/29/2009
Here is a test page I created to help explain some further testing around tagged notes. There are 5...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/17/2009
Every so often, I'll get the same or very similar questions all at once. I'm not sure why this...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/14/2009
Did you see Adapx updated their software 2.0 for the CapturX pen? You can finally print your own...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/10/2009
Looks like Johan de Konig has written an addin to import ink from a Digital Notepad device from...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/08/2009
Equation support has received some strong positive feedback so far - thanks! Testing it has been a...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/07/2009
We've gotten a large amount of feedback on the ribbon in OneNote 2010 beta. The Ribbon is a shared...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/03/2009
I've mentioned several times that we use persona testing to help define scenarios for OneNote...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/30/2009
Just wanted to make sure everyone saw this solution has been updated. Details at...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/27/2009
A few things came up over the weekend. We released the Beta version of Office 2010 and folks have...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/23/2009
Finally - the beta is public, so run over there and try it out! The toughest part about this blog...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/19/2009
This is new. One of the nice things about Microsoft is our office supply rooms. We can go in any...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/16/2009
I saw this question on the newsgroup the other day and left a short description of how to get the...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/12/2009
This is a pretty detailed time planner I stumbled across last week. Dean Gardiner created a very...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/09/2009
Last time I shared a page I used Word and Onenote 2010 equation support to figure out how much...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/05/2009
I was thinking about getting a larger laptop with a much larger screen than my current tablet. At...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/02/2009
Someone came by my office this last week and saw me paste some information about a bug report I...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/29/2009
Over the weekend there was a question on the iheartonenote.com site about creating a new page that...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/26/2009
Just back from vacation and am getting back up to speed. Some random stats that are meaningless...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/22/2009
Those of you who follow tweets related to OneNote might have seen Stephen Elop send a message now...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/08/2009
This item showed up in email today: A OneNote Haiku. This was written on our whiteboard by our...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/06/2009
A tool we use to track OneNote network traffic and behavior is Fiddler. It is a free tool you can...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/02/2009
I started work today pretty happy - I hit "ZBR" right on the deadline for the first time...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/28/2009
It's not all hard work and testing OneNote around here. Some folks managed to get some...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/24/2009
Nothing to do with testing OneNote, per se, but this looked interesting enough to share. If anyone...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/21/2009
Kim sent me an email wanting to know if it was possible to fine tune the position of outlines on a...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/17/2009
Check this out: Lifehacker found some free cheat sheets for many office products (and other apps) at...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/16/2009
We had a "bug bash" on some sync features in OneNote last week. I thought it may be interesting to...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/14/2009
One of the many planned testing events we have to complete for many of our areas is a "Bug...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/10/2009
Back in April, I was having a problem investigating a failing automation script. The script was a...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/09/2009
Another borderline advertisement for a pretty good talk about migrating to Windows 7. Here’s the...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/02/2009
Looking through the newsgroup this weekend showed this comment: basically, this person was having...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/31/2009
First, I need to develop a better name for this addin. Highlighted Text Extractor? Get Highlighted...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/27/2009
Based on a few requests I received last week, I decided to investigate a powertoy to get the...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/24/2009
I got an email request last week with a suggestion for a powertoy. Talking about powertoys always...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/20/2009
Back in March I pointed out that OneNote has been reading your tweets. The link I'm using is this...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/17/2009
One of the features of Equation Support with OneNote 2010 is the ability to insert specific symbols...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/13/2009
One of the things you can do fairly easily with OneNote 2010 is convert notebooks into a format...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/10/2009
Let's take a break from testing Equation support in OneNote 2010 to let me respond to everyone with...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/06/2009
Last week I went over the verifications for selecting one of our canned equations but stopped short...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/03/2009
Let's take a look at one of the ways we expose inserting equations into OneNote 2010 Tech Preview...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/31/2009
Back from vacation and had good intentions to start talking about the testing of the Equation...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/29/2009
I’m still reading your tweets and saw this one the other day: Is there a way to "purge" MS...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/16/2009
After having to wipe my machine and restore (yet again), I remembered I make a few tweaks to my test...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/13/2009
Looking through my Sent Items folder in Outlook for the past few weeks, I realized I had asked and...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/09/2009
One of the "tricks" I've learned over time for my dogfood machine is to set it up as if I...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/02/2009
Last week I showed how you change some global Windows font and color selections to make changes to...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/29/2009
I saw this question on the Outlook Newsgroup a few days ago: "Is there anyway to change the...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/25/2009
This is not so much about testing as life at Microsoft. Near our coffee machines is a little bench...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/22/2009