Lotus Notes is quite a number of "things", including e-mail, calendar, To Dos (tasks), chat, RSS Feeder, an applications platform, and more. Being able to master all these aspects is made simple with this exciting user guide. Many of us will use Lotus Notes for most of our working day; and being able to use it more efficiently is a gain in our hectic work life. Many of us want to use tools and features to save time, but often we are unsure of how to master those tools and features. This book offers a guide with explanations and clear instructions with explicit screenshots.
Chapter 1, First Impressions (The Client Interface), explores and explains what we first see and how we work with what we see when we open Lotus Notes.
Chapter 2, To Chat or Not to Chat: Lotus Sametime, covers the benefits and features of Lotus Sametime, which is a built-in chat and presence-awareness tool.
Chapter 3, Feeds, delves into what feeds are and how to set them up in Lotus Notes.
Chapter 4, Working with Widgets, discusses Widgets and Live Text and explains their use in Lotus Notes.
Chapter 5, Mastering Lotus Notes Mail, helps us understand mail in more detail.
Chapter 6, Lotus Notes Mail Tools, focuses on the advanced features available in Mail and how we can best utilize them to assist us in being efficient with mail management.
Chapter 7, Managing Contacts, explores how to organize, add, import, export, and manage contacts and groups (mailing or distribution lists).
Chapter 8, Calendar and To Dos, explores the calendar and To Dos in depth.
Chapter 9, Working with Lotus Notes Applications, explores the Lotus Notes application with real-world examples.
Chapter 10, Working Remotely (Replication/Synchronization), explores the benefits of working remotely in Lotus Notes and how to do so.
Chapter 11, Symphony, discusses IBM's award-winning office productivity software, Lotus Symphony, which allows us to create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and even has a PDF creator.
Lotus Notes is a multiplatform client application and is available in several languages. In this book, we have specifically covered the attributes of Lotus Notes 8.5 English client installed on a Windows operating system. As it is a client-server application, it works in conjunction with a Domino server. When we install and configure the client software, it will prompt us for our user name and home server. If we are performing these steps, we need to make sure we have these details, or we can contact our IT Department to determine what is required.
This book is suitable for anyone who uses Lotus Notes, from beginners to seasoned professionals who have used it for years. Often we are creatures of habit, even if those habits are the long way around of doing things. This book aims to cover the features and tools that enable us to work smarter. Also, there are significant changes from the earlier versions of Lotus Notes to the current version of 8.5. This book covers the new features in detail so that we will be able to take advantage of them as well; it also covers key features from earlier versions that have stood the test of time.
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New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in our text like this: "Open Mail and click on the More button in the action bar at the top of the messages."
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