Title:
Lotus notes 6 for dummies
Personal Author:
Series:
--For dummies
Publication Information:
New York : Wiley Publishing, 2003
ISBN:
9780764516498
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Summary
Summary
Lotus Notes For Dummies helps readers navigate and employ Lotus Notes to improve productivity and efficiency. Covers the enhanced features of the new version of Lotus Notes including the welcome page, instant messaging, document sharing, calendaring, group scheduling, and going mobile. This is an introductory level book that provides the essential information needed to enable users to get the most from the latest release of Lotus Notes.
Author Notes
Stephen Londergan works for IBM, where he is a member of the Lotus Notes collaboration team. He is also the coauthor of all the previous books on Lotus Notes
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| About This Book | p. 2 |
| Foolish Assumptions | p. 3 |
| Conventions Used in This Book | p. 3 |
| How This Book Is Organized | p. 4 |
| What You're Not to Read | p. 5 |
| Icons in This Book | p. 5 |
| Where to Go from Here | p. 6 |
| Part I Get Rolling with Notes | p. 7 |
| Chapter 1 Just What Is Notes, Anyway? | p. 9 |
| Care to Collaborate? | p. 10 |
| You Can't Be All Things to All People | p. 13 |
| What Makes Notes So Special? | p. 16 |
| Who's the Boss? | p. 17 |
| User ID--Your Key to Notes | p. 19 |
| Chapter 2 Getting Acquainted with Notes | p. 21 |
| Starting Notes | p. 21 |
| Understanding the Welcome Page | p. 22 |
| Using the Welcome Page | p. 23 |
| What's on the Menu? | p. 23 |
| Wise Up with Toolbar Buttons | p. 24 |
| Betting on Bookmarks | p. 25 |
| Trying Out the Task Buttons | p. 30 |
| Going to Places Where You've Never Been | p. 31 |
| When the Time Comes to Say Good-Bye | p. 33 |
| Part II It's a Mail Thing | p. 35 |
| Chapter 3 Gotta Get My E-Mail | p. 37 |
| May I Have the Envelope, Please? | p. 37 |
| Navigating the Navigation Pane | p. 39 |
| Traversing the View Pane | p. 41 |
| Taming That Distracting Preview Pane | p. 47 |
| Taking Action with the Action Bar | p. 48 |
| Get Me Outta Here! | p. 48 |
| Chapter 4 Making a Message | p. 49 |
| Minding Your Good Memo Manners | p. 49 |
| Composing Your New Message | p. 51 |
| Working in Your Mail | p. 62 |
| Chapter 5 Managing Your Mess(ages) | p. 67 |
| Digging through Your Scrap Heap of History | p. 67 |
| Organizing with Folders | p. 70 |
| All the News That's Fit to Print | p. 73 |
| Separating Multiple Printed Documents | p. 74 |
| Chapter 6 Making the Most of Your Messages | p. 75 |
| Enclosed Please Find | p. 75 |
| Okay I Got It ... Now What Do I Do with It? | p. 79 |
| Importing Files | p. 82 |
| Deciding Whether to Paste or Attach or Import | p. 83 |
| Creating Sections | p. 84 |
| Mail Is More Than Just Messages | p. 85 |
| Chapter 7 Mastering Your Mail | p. 87 |
| You Know, Not Everyone Uses Notes | p. 87 |
| Customizing Your Inbox | p. 91 |
| Following My Rules | p. 96 |
| I Need a Vacation | p. 101 |
| Reusing the Same Memo | p. 104 |
| Special Options for a Message | p. 105 |
| Part III When It's Not a Mail Thing | p. 107 |
| Chapter 8 Your Calendar | p. 109 |
| Using Your Calendar | p. 110 |
| Discovering Calendar Events | p. 117 |
| Managing Group Calendars | p. 124 |
| Printing Your Calendar | p. 127 |
| Chapter 9 Managing Your Calendar | p. 129 |
| Makin' a Meetin' | p. 129 |
| Replying to an Invitation | p. 138 |
| Before the Meeting | p. 143 |
| Chapter 10 Tracking Your To Dos | p. 145 |
| Viewing Your To Dos | p. 147 |
| Creating a New To Do | p. 150 |
| When You're Finished: Marking a To Do as Complete | p. 151 |
| Working with Other People | p. 151 |
| Setting To Do Preferences | p. 154 |
| Chapter 11 Your Personal Address Book | p. 157 |
| Making It Personal | p. 157 |
| Using Your Personal Address Book | p. 158 |
| Adding a Contact | p. 161 |
| Discovering All about Groups | p. 163 |
| Uncovering Other Cool Address Book Toys | p. 165 |
| Setting Preferences | p. 166 |
| Chapter 12 It's Databasic | p. 169 |
| Est-ce que vous parlez Database? | p. 170 |
| Finding a New Notes Database | p. 171 |
| The Database Door Creaks Open | p. 177 |
| Opening a Database on the Internet or an Intranet | p. 178 |
| When You Need Help | p. 178 |
| Chapter 13 Using Databases | p. 181 |
| I Was Just Thinking of View | p. 181 |
| A Sort of Category | p. 184 |
| Using Folders as Holders | p. 187 |
| So, What Can You Do with Documents? | p. 189 |
| A Document with All the Fixin's | p. 195 |
| Join the Party--Bring Your Own Document! | p. 203 |
| A Document Catches Your Eye | p. 208 |
| Searching | p. 212 |
| A Full-Power Search | p. 212 |
| Part IV Making Notes Suit You! | p. 221 |
| Chapter 14 Jazzing Up Your Text | p. 223 |
| Changing Characters | p. 223 |
| Formatting Paragraphs with Character | p. 231 |
| Permanent Pen--Does It Stain? | p. 240 |
| Highlighter--Does It Stain? | p. 241 |
| Chapter 15 Doctoring Your Documents | p. 243 |
| Break It Up! | p. 243 |
| Putting Your Cards in a Table | p. 244 |
| Trying to Get a Header the Situation | p. 255 |
| Set 'em Up, Boys | p. 258 |
| Search and Rescue | p. 259 |
| If Your uh Bahd Spellar | p. 261 |
| Document Locking | p. 263 |
| Chapter 16 Notes the Way You Want It | p. 265 |
| The Notes Welcome Page | p. 265 |
| Changing the Welcome Page | p. 266 |
| Creating Links | p. 270 |
| Setting All those Myriad Preferences | p. 271 |
| Setting Your Notes Password | p. 278 |
| Part V Worldwide Notes | p. 283 |
| Chapter 17 Data In and Data Out | p. 285 |
| Where's the Glue? | p. 285 |
| Throwing Out Your Paper Clips | p. 287 |
| Importing and Exporting | p. 288 |
| If You Can't Link 'em--embed 'em | p. 297 |
| Chapter 18 Notes and the Web | p. 299 |
| Opening Web Pages in Notes | p. 299 |
| Forwarding a Web Page in Notes | p. 303 |
| Making a Link to a Web Page | p. 304 |
| Chapter 19 Notes for Road Warriors | p. 307 |
| What Exactly Is Replication? | p. 307 |
| Taking a Copy of the Database with You | p. 312 |
| Replicating | p. 314 |
| Using Your Computer away from the Office | p. 320 |
| Enough Talk! Call That Server and Replicate! | p. 321 |
| Using Replication Remotely | p. 321 |
| Part VI The Part of Tens | p. 325 |
| Chapter 20 Ten Things You Should Never Do | p. 327 |
| Never Change Your Notes Name | p. 327 |
| Never Delete Your E-Mail Database | p. 328 |
| Never Save or Send a Message Without Checking Spelling First | p. 329 |
| Never Remove Your Password | p. 329 |
| Never Forget to Press F5 When You Go to Lunch | p. 329 |
| Never Let Temp Files Pile Up | p. 330 |
| Never Forget to Consult the Manuals | p. 330 |
| Never Forget to Save Early and Often | p. 330 |
| Never Forget to Switch Back to the Proper Location When You Return to the Office | p. 331 |
| Never Write Something You Don't Want Everyone to Read | p. 331 |
| Chapter 21 The Ten Most Common Lotus Notes Problems | p. 333 |
| Your Laptop Doesn't Connect to Your Server | p. 333 |
| You Can't Edit a Field | p. 334 |
| You Can't Use a DocLink | p. 334 |
| Your Server Isn't Responding | p. 335 |
| You Don't Have the Right Certificate | p. 335 |
| You Can't Open a Database | p. 335 |
| You Can't Search | p. 336 |
| You Can't Delete a Document That You Composed | p. 336 |
| You Can't Open an Attachment | p. 336 |
| You Don't Know Who Your Network Administrator Is | p. 337 |
| You Can't Remember Your Password | p. 337 |
| Chapter 22 The Ten New Things You Should Know About Lotus Notes 6 | p. 339 |
| Desktop, Oh Desktop, Wherefore Art Thou? | p. 339 |
| Your E-Mail Is Different | p. 340 |
| New and Improved Calendar | p. 340 |
| Better Attachment Management | p. 340 |
| Dragging and Dropping | p. 341 |
| Cool New Letterhead | p. 341 |
| No More Smartlcons | p. 341 |
| New and Improved Replicator | p. 341 |
| Document Locking | p. 342 |
| Quick Notes | p. 342 |
| F5 | p. 342 |
| Part VII Appendix | p. 343 |
| Glossary | p. 345 |
| Index | p. 357 |
