Notes 8.5.3
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Notes 8.5.3
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The IBM® Lotus Notes® user interface is comprised of views menus, toolbars, navigation panes, and a sidebar that you can use for easy access to some frequently used applications.
The navigator displays the views and folders that are available in the currently opened application. For example, in your Calendar, you can choose from several views, such as One Day or One Week. In your Mail application, you can you can create folders to organize your messages.
The menu bar displays menu choices that apply to an application or document. There is a standard set of menus, plus optional menus that change depending on the application. There is also a set of advanced menus that you can enable (). Context menus appear when you right-click an object (a message, for example) or area.
Toolbars are made up of buttons. You can set Toolbar Preferences to specify which toolbars display, and you can add or remove buttons from each toolbar.
Each window tab optionally includes an action bar, specific to the application or document open in the window tab. Action bars may include icons and text, or be comprised of text only. Items on the action bar are also available from the Action menu.
Icons display throughout Lotus Notes. To see a description of an icon, move the mouse pointer over the icon.
The contents of what you select in the navigator display in the view pane.
Each tab displays a page. As you work, you can open multiple tabbed pages. If the row of tabs exceeds the width of your screen, left and right scroll icons display that you can use to access tabs that are out of view. Alternatively, you can set a Windows® and Themes user preference to group documents in a single tab.
The status bar displays action buttons and messages about current status and activity.
Click Open for a list that includes your Lotus Notes applications, bookmarks, folders, IBM Lotus® Symphony documents, and your workspace. Right-click Open and click Dock the Open List to display icons down the left side of the window.
The preview pane displays a preview of a selected message or calendar entry. You can display the preview pane vertically, beside the view pane (the default), or horizontally, underneath the view pane. You can also hide the preview pane.
The home page (previously called the Welcome page) is the first item that appears if you do not have a view set to open when you first launch Lotus Notes. The default home page gives you a central location from which to access your Mail, Calendar, Contacts, To Do list, Notebook, and IBM Lotus Symphony.
You access the switcher menu by clicking the small menu icon located in the corner of your navigator. Use this menu to switch to another application, for example, to switch from Mail to To Do.
The sidebar gives you easy access to Sametime® Contacts, Calendar, a Feed Reader, and Activities, depending on how your administrator has set up your Lotus Notes account. You can collapse the sidebar to a thin bar showing icons only (the default), or hide it.
Search appears at the top right of the toolbar. You can use search for a Notes® style search or a Web style search. You set a user preference to enable Yahoo! Search or Google Web Search.
The workspace, the legacy user interface for Lotus Notes, displays pages containing application icons. The workspace is still available and accessible via the Open list.
Views display specific sets of documents within an application. For example, your Mail application has an All Documents view that displays every document contained in Mail, and a Sent view that displays only documents that you have sent.
Bookmarks are links that point to Lotus Notes or Internet elements, such as applications, views, documents, Web pages, and news groups.
Help is available throughout Lotus Notes on all the areas you are using. In addition, context-sensitive Help, specific to the task you're performing, is also available when you press F1.
Notes Minder is a feature that checks your mail and monitors your Calendar alarms when Lotus Notes is not running. When Notes Minder is active, it displays an icon in your Windows taskbar.