Course overview
Description:
This course is designed for users already familiar with Lotus Notes 5.x, who wish to become immediately familiar with the new features of Lotus Notes 6.5. It provides a rapid overview of the key enhancements. This tutorial enables you to:
- Quickly absorb changes to the Welcome page options, including the new 'Workplace' portal
- Know where to gain speed through productivity improvements such as 'Quick Notes' and improved bookmarks
- Customise a Welcome page that best suits your needs
- Understand new mail features and how they will help you
- Know how to improve calendar and 'to do' usage
- Understand integration with Lotus Sametime (instant messaging)
- Become familiar with changes to the user interface
- Take advantage of improved editing in databases
- Know about improvements to replication.
Audience:
- This tutorial is suitable for users who already use Notes 5 and wish to gain a quick overview of the enhancements in Notes 6.5.
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Course Content
Welcome to Notes 6.5
- Launching Notes and logging in
- Welcome page shortcuts
- Security feature changes
- Integration with Lotus Sametime
Customising the Welcome Page
- Creating a new Welcome page
- Selecting the 'Launcher' option
- Using the Welcome page
- Quick Notes
New 'Workplace' Welcome page
- Selecting the new 'Workplace' portal
- Customising the Workplace tabs
- Enabling 'Launcher', 'Search' and 'Instant
- Contacts' options
Enhanced bookmarks
New 'Startup' and 'History' bookmarks
Using drag and drop with bookmarks
Bookmark display and management options
User interface improvements
- Managing windows
- Toolbars
- Customising the status bar
Sending and receiving mail
- New features when sending mail
- Address enhancements
- Changes to delivery options
- Enhancements to attachments
- vCard use
- Printing address labels
Mail inbox enhancements
- Managing and customising views and folders
- Colour-coding mail
- Improved 'reply' and 'forward' options
- Productivity gains using 'Follow Up'
- Dealing with junk mail
Calendar features
- New features in calendar views
- Improved visibility of conflicts
- Colour-coding of entry types
Scheduling an online meeting
- New printing and delegation features
To Do features
- To Do view enhancements
- Using drag and drop
- In-line editing
- To Do preferences
Database enhancements
- Enhanced searching
- View export options
- Locking documents
- Enhanced editing of tables and lists
- Easier creation of links
Replication
- Replicator page changes
- Enhanced replication control
- Progress bar
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