OneNote SP2 Released

[OneHelper]

I just wanted to let everyone know that OneNote SP2 was released today. Please download it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...44-1D31-4137-BFA5-CA755D4C7A71&displaylang=en

And for all of Office please see here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...97-2DB6-4654-9DB6-EC7D5B4DD867&displaylang=en

Enjoy!

 

[alainr]

phew, I thought that things was a virus.

Now... why is it trying to "phone home"? It was just sitting in the
background when my firewall alerted me that ON spontaneously requested access
to the internet on some port in the 3000s

 

[David Cleland]

I take it this is all fake ?

David

 

[David Cleland]

I take it this is all fake ?

forget that - my pc was playing up.

What are the updates or changes to onenote ?

David

 

[John Waller]

What are the updates or changes to onenote ?

It's all on the Microsoft KB:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887619

 

[EMRhelp.org]

It's all on the Microsoft KB:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887619
John Waller

It fixes nothing, other than these __minor__ issues.

List of issues that the OneNote service pack 2 fixes:

OneNote 2003 SP2 fixes the following issues that were not previously
documented in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.

1) Notes are not published to a UNC location

When you publish your notes to a Universal Naming Convention (UNC)
location, such as \\sharename\foldername, your notes are not published.
Additionally, the .mht file is saved with a file size of 0 (zero)
bytes.


2) The Stationery task pane does not open when you download a new
template

When you download a new OneNote 2003 template from Microsoft Office
Online, the New task pane opens. To use the new template that you
downloaded, you must open the Stationery task pane. After you install
this service pack, the Stationery task pane automatically opens when
you download a new OneNote 2003 template.


3) The ActiveX download control is updated

This service pack updates the ActiveX download control that downloads
new templates for OneNote 2003 from Microsoft Office Online.
=====================================

SP2 (the OneNote aspects) is a BIG YAWN.

 

[EMRhelp.org]

A 30 Meg download for the measly changes. HUH ?

Microsoft sure knows how to host a download - I am getting 750K/s -
sustained.

 

[John Waller]

SP2 (the OneNote aspects) is a BIG YAWN.

<yawn>Thanks for another typical EMR-esque contribution </yawn>

 

[Chris_Pratley \(MS\)]

Actually, it fixes quite a bit more than that, but these were the ones that
could be described in a semi-comprehensible way. The patch fixes performance
and repsonsiveness issues (especially a couple with ink on Tablets). It also
fixes some crashes and hangs to make the product more stable (actually we
clock in as the most stable of all Office applications!). You'd be nuts not
to install it.

Chris Pratley (MS)

OneNote blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/

 

[PJ]

Always glad to see a bug fix release. Every little helps.

Really looking forward to OneNote 12 (or whatever it will be finally
called)

 

[David Cleland]

Really looking forward to OneNote 12 (or whatever it will be finally

called)

me too I love office updates more than OS upgrade. They school call it
twonotes

David

 

[Micah Brodsky]

Hey, Chris.
I'm a little disappointed in that some annoying bugs I've known about (and
mentioned here) since before SP1 are still present in SP2. Do you guys just
have too many bugs to deal with (as is the usual case with commercial
software! , or are you simply unaware of them?

Examples:
- Red squiggly hilighting remains after splitting two words apart by
anything other than whitespace. (e.g., if I type "I like ice cream" and then
revise it to "I really, really like ice cream" after pausing at "I
reallylike ice cream", the squiggly underline remains under the first
really. You'd be amazed at how common and annoying this is.)

- Page formatting may be persistently affected by choice of printer. (I
haven't tried to verify this on other computers, but it's so weird and
OneNote-specific it seems it has to be a OneNote bug.) Printing through
certain printer drivers (such as HP LaserJet and Xerox Phaser) on my
computer causes the margins, font size, and pagination as seen both in print
preview and the actual printed page to shrink substantially (affecting the
entire .one file at a time but not persistent across saves), whereas
printing through other drivers (such as Office Document Image Writer,
Journal Note Writer, or OneNote Image Writer) causes the formatting to be
restored to its proper state.


I must say I'm very pleased with the overall stability of the program (in a
1+ years of heavy use, I haven't lost a single word of data), but many
qualitative, hard-to-measure rough spots still remain.
Thanks!
-Micah Brodsky