Sending Help

Have you ever had a co-worker ask you how to do something in a software application such as Lotus Notes? Now you can find the answer for him and send a copy of the instructions to his Inbox.

Click on Help. The Help drop-down menu will appear.
Click on Help Topics. The Help dialog box will open .

If you need to search for the specific help topic, complete the following steps. If you see the help topic you need, skip to Step 6.
Click on Search. The Help Search dialog box will open.
Click in the Search text box and type the word or phrase you want to locate.
Click on the Search button. The information you seek will be displayed in the right panel of the Help dialog box.
Click on the Help topic you need. The right panel will reflect your choices.
Click on Actions. The Actions drop-down menu will appear.
Click on Forward Selected Topic(s). The Help information will be placed in an e-mail message, ready for you to address.
Type the recipient's name in the To text box. The recipient's name will appear in the text box.
Click on Send. The Help message will be sent to the recipient.

Chapter 5: Setting up Your Personal Preferences

Overview

Lotus Notes gives you the ability to customize the look and feel of your individual work environment to help you utilize the software to its fullest extent. In this chapter, you will learn about:

User Preferences
Toolbar Preferences
Status Bar Preferences
User Security

User Preferences

Lotus Notes lets you customize how you would like the software to work for you.

Click on File.
Click on Preferences.

Click on User Preferences. The User Preferences window will appear.

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Note

Most of the settings that we will go over in this section may be set according to your Administrator's instructions. When in doubt, always contact your System Administrator before changing anything.

Take a look at some of the options available on the Basics tab of the User Preferences. In this section you can:

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The International tab gives you more options.

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On the Mail tab are options regarding how your mail works.

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The Replication tab allows you to decide how you want replication to work for you in regards to receiving documents and other items that advanced users might find helpful.

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Click on OK to save any changes you might have made or Cancel to exit the User Preferences window.

Toolbar Preferences

The Toolbar Preferences let you customize how the toolbars appear in Lotus Notes.

Click on File .
Click on Preferences .
Click on Toolbar Preferences . The Toolbar Preferences window will appear.

On the Basics tab you can:

On the Customize tab, you can add or remove different icons, depending on the various tasks that you perform within Lotus Notes, by dragging and dropping them to the Toolbar view at the bottom of the dialog box.
Click on OK to save any changes you might have made or Cancel to exit the Toolbar Preferences window.

Status Bar Preferences

You may have noticed by now that sometimes when you do something within Lotus Notes or when the program wants to inform you of something important, a message will appear on the Status Bar at the bottom of the page.

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You can change the way the Status Bar notifies you of different activities within the Status Bar Preferences.

Click on File .
Click on Preferences.
Click on Status Bar Preferences. The Status Bar Preferences window will appear.

Within this window you can choose the notifications that you would like to appear on the Status Bar, and even the size of text within it.
Click on OK to save any changes you might have made or Cancel to exit the Status Bar Preferences window.