Lotus Notes R8.5.

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Show’n’Tell Training Session
 Overview

• What does this presentation cover?

• Part 1 – Quick Introduction.

• Part 2 – What we will cover in this presentation.

• Part 3 – Show’n’Tell!

• Part 4 – Q&A.

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Part 1
Introduction
 Introduction (1 of 2)

• About the Authors of this Presentation …

• Marc Champoux, a Notes Developer/Administrator who’s been

working with the product since v4.1.

• Patrick Darke, a Notes Administrator since v2 and now an

Infrastructure manager.

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 Introduction (2 of 2)

• About the Blog at www.thenewdominoadmin.com …

• The blog was created because we like to share information so

you’ll find posts about stuff we discovered or ran into as we go
along.

• Also, Marc would like to present a session at Lotusphere one day

… and having a blog is a great way to build up material for a
session.

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 Part 2
What We Will Cover In This Presentation
 Topics (1 of 2)

• Topics …

• The goal is to look at each of the “main” differences and/or features

of Lotus Notes R8.5.1 and discuss some tips & tricks on how to use
them.

• The “Show’n’Tell” session will cover the following items:

• Part 1: The Bookmark Bar.

• Part 2: The “Unified Preferences.
• Part 3: The “Tabs” at the top.
• Part 4: Toolbars.
• Part 5: The “Universal Search” feature.

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• Topics (continued) …

• The “Show’n’Tell” session will cover the following items:

• Part 6: The Sametime client.

• Part 7: The Feeds panel.
• Part 8: The Day-At-A-Glance panel.
• Part 9: The Mail File changes.
• Part 10: The Calendar changes.

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Part 3
Show’n’Tell
 SnT – Bookmark Bar (1 of 4)

• The Bookmark Bar - Overview

• Prettier … the icons have changed but are smaller.

• New icon at the top to help you search your bookmark bar.

• New icons at the bottom to create documents in “Lotus Symphony”.

• Icons are too small? Right-click and select “Use Large Icons”.

• Need more “screen real estate”? Right-click and select “Dock the
Open List”. The “Bookmark Bar will be in the “Open Button in the
upper left corner.

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• The “Open” button vs. The Bookmark Bar …

• It can appear either as :

The “Open” button

-or-

As the “Bookmark Bar”

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• The Bookmark Bar Overview …

Search your bookmarks
• The Bookmark Bar has many
Open your mail, calendar,
icons … here’s a quick run address book and to-do’s
down of what a “default”
bookmark bar might look Open the Replicator page
like.

Launch Internet Explorer

Create documents

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 SnT – Bookmark Bar (4 of 4)

• The Bookmark Bar – Icons Are Too Small? No problem!

• If you find the icons too small,

right-click on an empty space of
the bookmark bar and click on
the “Use Large Icons” option.

• If you want to “dock” the list and

get the “Open” button back,
right-click on an empty space of
the bookmark bar and click on
the “Doc the Open List” option.

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• “Unified Preferences” - Overview

• Is it a good or a bad idea? I can’t decide.

• Lotus is trying really hard to put all the

settings into 1 place.

• The “Unified Preferences” are

accessible via File
Preferences.

• There are tons of options in there and

there are even screens that you’ll see in
other places.

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• Basic Notes Client Configuration – A Good Start …

• The “Basics Client Configuration” section has lots of options to

tweak your Lotus Notes settings. For example, the AutoSave
settings are near the top.

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 SnT – Unified Preferences (3 of 16)

• Basic Settings – Additional Options …

• In the “Basics” Settings page,

you’ll find the “Additional
options” section. If you scroll
in the list, there are some
interesting options like …

Textured Workspace

Enable MS Office 97 SendTo

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 SnT – Unified Preferences (4 of 16)

• Basic Settings vs. Document Selection …

• In version 8.5 of Lotus Notes,

you select emails in your Inbox
using the same method as
when you select rows in Excel.

• If you miss your “Selection

margin” too much, you can
re-enable it simply: scroll to the bottom of the “Additional Options”
and select “Show check marks in margin for selected documents”.

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• Don’t’ Panic: There’s Similar Screens Everywhere!

• Certain screens in the “Unified Preferences” panel are actually

loaded from your mail file! For example, see the “Mail” option below:

• … don’t be
surprised if you
see the same
options when
you are in your
Inbox and click
on “More

Preferences”.

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 SnT – Unified Preferences (6 of 16)

• Got Trouble With Your Eyes? Increase the Font Size!

• Lotus Notes R8.5 now “obeys” the Windows Font Size settings in
Start
Settings
Control Panel
Display
Appearance. So, if
you make your Windows Fonts larger, the fonts in Lotus Notes will
also be larger.

• However, the “Fonts and Colors” section in the “Unified Preferences”

also allows you to increase the Fonts in Lotus Notes.

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• Tired of “Red Unread Emails”?

• Henry Ford said “You can have the Model T in any color you want
as long as it’s black”. And Lotus also pretty much said the same
things about your “unread emails” … they could only be displayed in
the color red …

• But that’s no longer the case! They can now be displayed either in
red or in Bold. The choice is also in the “Fonts and Colors” screen.

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 SnT – Unified Preferences (8 of 16)

• Crash often? Help Lotus Help You!

• Ever had car problems? The mechanic will want to know if there was
any signs of trouble or sounds before your car broke. If the same
thing happens with your Lotus Notes client often, we’ll need to get
more information from your client.

• Check “Enable Logging” by going to the “Log Settings” panel to help

us help you …

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 SnT – Unified Preferences (9 of 16)

• Sametime Options – Options Galore!

• The “New & Improved” Sametime client is one of the features that
the employees appreciate the most. In version 7, it was very basic
but in version 8.5, it’s got more features than you can shake at stick
at.

• We’ll cover a few options right here now

but keep in mind that in a couple of slides,
we’ll discuss the Sametime client in more
details.

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• Sametime Calendar Service – Let It Change your Status

• Sametime can be configured to check your calendar and change

your status to “In a Meeting” automatically … you’ll find that option in
“Sametime
Auto-Status Changes
Calendar Service”.

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• Tabbed Chats … might be useful … or not

• If you have *many* chat windows open over the course of your day,
you might want to try the
“tabbed chat” feature.

• You enable the “Tabbed

Chats” by going into the
“Sametime
Chat Window”
panel.

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• Tabbed Chats … before and after …

• Once you enable “Tabbed Chats” there will only be 1 chat window
displayed at the bottom instead of many and each chat will be in a
different “tab” (vertical or horizontal).

• Before …

• After …

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• Emoticons!

• You might have seen “smiley faces” in emails before? Have you ever
wanted to use them in chats? Well, you can now!

• In the chat window, there is a button that allows you to insert “smiley
faces” icons but it’s faster to learn the keyboard shortcuts to add them
automatically. You can “see” the shortcuts in the “Sametime

Emoticons Palettes” screen (see below for an example).

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• Sametime Notifications … Annoying By Default!

• One of the question that I get

the most often is “why do the
Sametime Chats always
appear in front of my other
screens?”.

• The answer is that this is done

by default by Lotus (not by
me!). You can change that by
going into “Sametime

Notifications
One-on-one
Chats” and de-selecting
“Bring Chat Window to Front”.
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• Sametime Spell Check … *Not* Enabled by Default

• Whereas the most annoying feature to grace Sametime is enabled

by default (see previous slide), once of the nicest features is
disabled by default …

• To enable “in line spell checking” in your chats, go to “Sametime

Spell Checking and enable “Always check my spelling as I type the
message field”.

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• On the topic of “Spell Checking” …

• Lotus has added an “in line” spell checker for emails too!

• The “Spell Check” panel contains the “Enable Instant Spell

Checking” option.

• There’s also 3 additional options that might be very useful that you
can enable (see below).

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• Overview

• Every email, calendar entry or document that you open in Lotus

Notes appears as a tab at the top.

• By default, the tabs that were opened at the top of your screen when
you close your Lotus Notes will re-open automatically … but you can
change that.

• And, unfortunately for those who were used to go from one tab to
the next in the previous version by pressing CTRL+TAB … that does
not work anymore in version 8 …

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• Changing the Default Behavior for Tabs

• If you don’t want your tabs to “re-open” each time you open Lotus
Notes, you can go into “File Preferences”.

• Once you are in the “Unified Preferences” screen, click on Windows

and Themes” and un-check “On restart, reopen any tabs that were
open when I closed the client”.

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• Switching Tabs With Shortcuts … Harder in R8.5

• In version 7 of Lotus Notes, we could go from one document to the

next that we had previously opened by pressing CTRL+TAB.

• Unfortunately, due to the nature of new interface of Lotus Notes

(based on a framework called “Eclipse”), you have to use CTRL+F8
to switch between tabs.

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• Ever have too many tabs opened?

• Depending on the side of your screen, Lotus Notes can only display
a certain number of “tabs” across the top of your client.

• After a certain number of tabs opened, you can switch between

opened tabs by clicking on the icon on the right of the tab bar:

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• Too Many Tabs? Try The Tab Browser!

• Another feature introduced in Lotus Notes R8 is the “Tab Browser”

and you can use it to quickly view all your opened tabs.

• To use it, click on the “Stacked Squares” icon below the “File” menu
and then click on the screen that you want to switch to.

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 SnT – Toolbars (1 of 9)

• Overview

• Toolbars are there to make your life simply by giving you shortcuts
to the most popular or useful feature within the click of a mouse.

• Toolbars are not new to Lotus Notes R8.5.1 but they have been
given an overhaul. And just like in the previous version, the toolbars
change depending on the screen that you are into.

• For example, if you are in a screen or in a field where you can enter
some text, the “Text Editor” toolbar will be displayed. But if you place
it in a field where you can’t change the fonts, the font drop-down
menu will be grayed out to show which options will work or not.

• You can also customize the toolbars!

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• The Most Common Buttons …

• You’ll often see the same icons appear in the toolbars. Here’s an
overview of the Toolbar when you are in your Inbox:

Help
Refresh view
Search the view
Copy selected as table
Expand / Collapse all categories
Open Next / Previous unread email
Stop current action or process
Open the print dialog box
Shortcut to create new documents
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• Expanding and Collapsing View Categories …

• As you might have noticed in the previous slide, the icons to Open
and Collapse Categories were grayed out. That was because that
view did not contain categories.

• But for example, in a view which *has* categories, you will be able to
use them:

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• The Toolbar for Memos

• When you write a memo or edit a document, the “Text Editor”

Toolbar is displayed and it contains all your favorite text modification
options. Here’s a quick overview (and we’ll continue in the next
slide)…

Yellow highlighter
The “Permanent pen” feature
Text color options
Underline the text
Italicize the text
Bold the text
Change the font size
Change the font name

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• The Toolbar for Memos (continued)

Indent text right

Indent text left
Create a bulleted list
Create a numbered list
Center the text
Justify the text
Left align the text
More buttons …

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• The Toolbar for Memos (continued)

• If you have a small screen, the Toolbar won’t be able to display all
the buttons.

• When this happens, you simply click

on the last button and you can select
the option you want.

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• Customizing the Toolbar …

• Can you re-order the buttons on your favorite toolbar? Can you add
buttons or even remove some of the used ones? Well, yes of course
…

• To customize a toolbar, you need to click on “File
Preferences

Toolbar”. After you select the “Toolbar” option, click on the “+” sign
in front of it to expand the choices and select “Customize”.

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 SnT – Toolbars (8 of 9)

• Customizing the Toolbar … (continued)

• So, let’s imagine we want to move the “Spell check” option from the
right side of the toolbar to the left side to make it quicker to access.

• We’d begin by click on the

“Show Context Sensitive
toolbars in list” and then we would select the “Edit Document” toolbar.

• After that we’d scroll to the

right and click on the “abc”
icon and then click the “Left”
button a few times to move
it to the left.

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• Customizing the Toolbar … (continued)

• Once you have moved the

“abc” (spellcheck) icon,
you simply need to click
on “Save toolbar” and the
next time you are in a
new memo the spell check icon will where you’ve placed it.

• Don’t forget that you can click on “Restore Defaults” if you want to
reset the Toolbar you just modified.

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 SnT – Searching (1 of 6)

• Overview

• Lotus wants to make searching for emails or documents a bit more

easy in version 8.

• To achieve this, they’ve made a “Search” toolbar which is always

visible.

• The “Search” toolbar can also help you launch Google searches
right from your Lotus Notes client.

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• It’s Content Sensitive …

• Just like all the other Toolbars, the “Search” toolbar adapt itself to
the screen you are looking at. For example …

• When you are in your Inbox:

• When you are in your Calendar:

• When you are in your Contacts:

• … or the database you are in:

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 SnT – Searching (3 of 6)

• How to Search …

• To begin type the words that you want to look for

into the Search bar and press Enter on your keyboard or click the
Magnifying Glass icon (this example is done from my mail file).

• That will start a “Full-Text Search” in your mail file. It might take a
while because it’s opening each and every email to look for those
exact words. Once it’s finished it will present the search results.

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• Closing the Search Results

• To close the results screen, you can either press the ESC key on
your keyboard OR click on the “X” of the Search Results tab.

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• Starting a Google Search

• Do you want to do a Google Search quickly? Try this …

• Click on the “Down Arrow” of the “Search

Toolbar”.

• Select “Google Web Search” from the list of

options that appear.

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• Starting a Google Search (continued)

• Once the “Search” toolbar icon changes to the

Google icon, you can type anything and press “Enter” on your
keyboard or click on the magnifying glass icon to start the search.

• And presto … your default web browser will open with the search
results from Google:

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 SnT – Sametime (1 of 23)

• Overview

• The interface of Sametime in Lotus Notes R8.5.1 has been

completely revamped and now includes lots of new features like:

• Business card information (phone number and picture!).

• A search bar to find someone quickly.

• Options to ask for alerts when someone becomes available.

• The ability to find the free time of someone from Sametime.

• The ability to send files to someone, etc, etc …

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• But where is Sametime now?

• In all the previous versions of Lotus Notes that had Sametime, the
button to connect and view your contact list was at the bottom.

• Lotus Notes R8.5 now includes a “Sidebar” on the right side that
contains the Sametime client.

• To view the Sametime client, click on the following

icon in the sidebar on the right side of the screen:

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• Login Into the Server

• By default, we have configured the Lotus Notes client to log you

automatically into the Sametime server.

• However, if that is not the case, simply

click on the Sametime icon (see previous
slide) and click on “Log In”.

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• The Basic Layout of Sametime

• The R8 client has many options and features. Here’s an overview:

Your current availability status

The Sametime toolbar

The Sametime Search bar

Your contact list

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• Sametime Business Cards

• One of the preferred features in the new Sametime client is the

Business Card feature.

• When you put the mouse cursor over someone’s name in your
Contact List, a pop-up will appear with some information pulled from
the Domino Directory.

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• Sametime Business Cards (continued)

• And the business card feature will also appear when you chat with
someone at the top of the chat window:

• You can hover over the picture to magnify it a bit. Please note that IT
has not added the picture of every employee into the Domino
Directory … so it’s normal that some people have a picture and
others don’t.
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• The Sametime Toolbar

• Just like everything else, Sametime has its own Toolbar. Here’s an
overview of each button:

Capture your screen to send it to someone

Add a group to your contact list
Add a person to your contact list
Start a meeting on the Sametime server
Send an announcement
Send a file to someone
Start a Voice-over-IP call with someone
Start a chat with someone

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• Moving the Contact List to the Task Bar

• Some people prefer to have their Contact List at the bottom of their
screen like in version 7. It’s possible to do that with a few clicks.

• To begin, click on the selector on the right

side of the Sametime title bar:

• In the menu that appears, click on the

option “Open in new Window”:

• And presto, it will appear on your

screen and in the Windows Task bar:
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• Sending Files via Sametime

• Would you like to be able to transfer files during a chat without going
to your mail file?

• You can simply click on the “paperclip”

icon above your Sametime contact list
or above the text area during a chat,
select the file to send and click on “Open” to start the transfer
process.

• The other person has to accept the file (as a security precaution).

• This does not take any space in your mail file!

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• Sending a Screenshot

• Someone said “A Picture of Worth a Thousand Words” and they

were right. With Sametime you can now capture a part of your
screen and send it to the other person. Here’s how.

• Start by clicking on the “Screen capture” icon in the

Sametime Toolbar or in the chat screen:

• The mouse cursor will change, you can then

select a part of your screen by clicking and
dragging the mouse.

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• Sending a Screenshot (continued)

• Once you release the mouse cursor,

you will be taken back to the screen
capture utility screen. Simply click on
the “Send” button to send the image.

• You can also highlight certain parts of the screens using the toolbar
in the Screenshot Tool panel.

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 SnT – Sametime (12 of 23)

• Did I mention emoticons before?

• When chatting with someone, you can now send “emoticons” to

indicate various emotions (we are not robots after all).

• To send an emoticon during a chat, simply

type the keyboard shortcut (see the slide
in “Unified Preferences” on that) or click
on the toolbar icon and select the icon
you wish to send.

• “Yes”, you can add other emoticons but

“No”, I will not show you how to find and add them ... After all, it’s a
business tool … a very cool business tool but a business tool
nonetheless ☺ …
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 SnT – Sametime (13 of 23)

• Finding Someone In Your Contact List

• If you have a very long Contact list, you can use the “Search” bar to
find someone quickly.

• Simply type their name and press “Enter” to find them quickly. If they
are online, it will start a chat. If they are not online, Lotus Notes will
ask you if you want to send them an email instead (like the example
below)

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• People who are Away …

• You need to chat with someone but

you notice that they are “Away”. You
can check every X minutes to see
when they come back …

• OR … you can ask Sametime to

warn you automatically!

• To do that, right click on a name and

select “Alert Me When Available”.

• When the employee becomes available, a pop-up will appear on

your screen.
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• Watching People … Even More!

• As you have seen in the previous slide, you can ask Sametime to
warn you when someone becomes Available.

• But you can also configure “customized alerts”

by using the “Alert Me When”.

• In the next screen you can select “Add an Alert”

and click on “Next” to configure if you want an
alert when the employee “Becomes available”,
“Becomes unavailable” or “Goes offline”.

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• The Collaboration History Feature

• Another new feature is the “Collaboration History”. This allows you

to quickly find emails that the person has sent you or that you have
both received (because you were both cc’ed for example) over the
past week.

• To use it, you simply right-click on

someone’s name and select
“Collaboration History”.

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• Quickly Scheduling a Meeting

• You can quickly schedule a meeting from your Contact List.

• Right-click on someone’s name and select “Find Available Time…”

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• Quickly Scheduling a Meeting (continued)

• The “Find Available Time” dialog box will appear. The system will try
to find the earliest 1 hour time slot that you both have free and
highlight it in green. You can then click on “Create Meeting” right
away.

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• Keep your Privacy!

• There are times where you might need to be online

but “hidden” from everybody else

• You can effectively manage “who” can see you

when you are online by clicking on your status and
by clicking on “Privacy Lists…”

• In the “Privacy Lists” screen you can enable

the option “Enable this list to control who
can see you when you are online” and then
add names in the box below.

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• Primary Contacts

• Do you always chat with the same employees but are constantly
searching for them in your Contact lists? The “Sametime Primary
Contacts” might be interesting for you … however, it’s not enabled
by default

• To display the “Primary Contacts”, you

need to click on the following menu:
“View
Right Sidebar Panels

Sametime Primary Contacts”.

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• Primary Contacts (continued)

• Once you enable the “Sametime Primary

Contacts” feature, a new panel will appear
on the right side bar and if you click on it,
it will display your “Primary Contacts”.

• By default, there is nobody in your Sametime

Primary Contacts.

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• Primary Contacts (continued)

• To add someone to your “Sametime

Primary Contacts” list, right click on
their name in your normal Sametime
client and select “Add to Primary
Contacts”. Repeat as needed.

• Once you have added a few employees to your

“Primary Contacts”, the list will contain their
picture and an icon that displays their status.

• You can simply double-click on the person’s picture to start a chat.

• To remove someone, click on him and press “DEL” on your keyboard.

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• Don’t Like The Automatic Login Feature?

• If your client is setup to automatically log you

into Sametime, you can change that.

• Click on your status and then click on “Manage

Server Community”.

• In the screen that appears, simply remove the

checkbox in the “Automatically log in” option.

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• Overview

• The “Feeds” side bar panel is a new feature of Lotus Notes R8.

• Web sites often publish “News Feeds” that “Feeds” readers can
scan from time-to-time to see if new items have been added to the
web sites.

• Most popular web sites have a “News Feed”, including our own
corporate web site.

• The “News Feed” icon on most web sites is like this:

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• Adding the Default News Feed

• If you haven’t done so, you should load the default News Feeds that
come with Lotus Notes.

• To begin, click on the "Feeds" header in the

side bar panel on the right side of your
screen.

• Then, click on the button to load the

Preset Feeds (the button will only appear
IF the preset feeds have never been
loaded and if you see the "What's a Feed
Reader" message).

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• Adding the Default News Feed (continued)

• If you clicked on the

button to load the
preset feeds, you will
be prompted with this
message. Simply click on "OK". Please note that you might be
prompted to enter your user id and password for the proxy at that
point.

• And the “preset feeds” will appear:

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• Using the Feeds Panel

• The number "10" next to the Lotus Notes

8 Tips indicates that I have 10 "unread"
items in that feed. To view the "unread"
feeds, you click on the "+" sign.

• Once you have clicked on a

news item, a pop-up appears
with an abstract of the story.
You can use the scrollbar on
the right side to read the
abstract to read it all.

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• Using the Feeds Panel (continued)

• You can even click on "Open" to go

right to the web page with the full
article.

• Notice that after you click on an item, that

the "unread" count goes down (in this
case, it went from 10 unread news items
to 9).

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• Adding A News Feed

• Now, imagine that you always have CCN opened in your web
browser to keep track of the news. To help with this, we'll do an
example of adding the "Top News" of CNN into the News Feed
reader.

• To begin, open a web browser and

go to www.cnn.com

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• Adding A News Feed (continued)

• Scroll to the bottom

of the page and click
on "RSS" (RSS is an acronym for "Really Simple Syndication"
which is the News Feeds protocol).

• Right click on the link

for the "Top Stories"
and click on "Copy
Shortcut”.

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• Adding A News Feed (continued)

• Now go back to the Feeds Reader in the

Sidebar of Lotus Notes and click on the
button to subscribe to a feed.

• Now right click on the field for

the url and click on "Paste"?

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• Adding A News Feed (continued)

• Once the url has appeared,

click on "Go". You might be
prompted to enter your user id
and password for the proxy at
that point.

• You can tweak some of the

settings, like the "Check for
updates" frequency (if you want
to) and click on OK.

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• Adding A News Feed (continued)

• Presto the CNN.com news feed appears.

• And if you click on the "+" sign, you can

see the News Feed items for CNN.com.

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• Overview

• The “Day-At-A-Glance” side bar panel is also a new feature of Lotus

Notes R8.

• The goal of the “Day-At-A-Glance” is to help you stay in your Inbox

while being able to “see” what you day is going to look like.

• It’s most useful for people with lots of meetings.

• You will find the “DAAG” panel on the right side of your screen.

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• Opening the Day-At-A-Glance Panel

• To “open” the DAAG panel, simply click on it’s title and it will open:

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• Navigation in the Day-At-A-Glance

• You can change the day that is displayed

by clicking on the left and right arrows at
the top of the panel.

• Or you can simply click on the day you want

to display in the calendar at the bottom.

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• Days/Weeks/Months Left

• If you need a bit of “inspiration” to make

it to the end of the year, you can see the
number of days left in the current year
just above the calendar.

• You can also click on the arrow and select

to display the number of weeks or months
left.

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• Showing Timeslots in the Day-At-A-Glance Panel

• Some people prefer to “see” the time slots

in the DAAG panel.

• You can enable them by clicking on the

“options” button in the upper right corner
of the panel and selecting “Timeslots”.

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• Timeslots

• One important note: when you display

timeslots in the DAAG panel, you
might have to scroll up and down to
see all your meetings for the day.

• If you don’t like the “Timeslots” display,

click on the “options” button in the upper
right corner of the panel and select
“Summary”.

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• Right Mouse Button = More Options

• While you are looking at an entry in the DAAG panel, you can right-
click on it and you’ll have a few options.

• The most useful one, I think, is

the “Copy Into
New Message”
because it creates a new memo
ready to be sent to all the
attendees quickly. Unfortunately,
it does not copy the meeting
description into the new memo.

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• Overview

• Let’s face it: an email is an email and you can almost always expect
to see a To:, a Cc:, a Subject and the email itself.

• But each new releases improves on the interface and for version 8
of Lotus Notes, they went “all out”.

• So, in the next few slides, we’ll cover how your mail file looks now
and which button does what.

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• Before and After: Swan Edition!

• Let’s take a moment to compare the inbox of version 7 and 8 …

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• Re-Order The Columns In Your Inbox

• Some people don’t like the fact that the “date and time” column has
moved to the right side. The good news is that you can move the
columns around to make your Inbox, Draft or any other folder “look”
the way you want.

• To move a column, simply click on the column

header to select it, hold the mouse button down
and drag the column to the location you want it.

• Don’t like the end result? You can always reset the column order by
going into the menu “View
Customize this View” and clicking on
the “Defaults” button.

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• Single Click View Actions

• Almost all the buttons in your mail file can perform an action when
they are clicked once.

• For example, Reply, Reply with History and Forward all do exactly
what they’re supposed to do when clicked once.

• However, if you click on the “down arrow”, you’ll see more options.

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• Single Click View Actions … More Details

• Reply and Reply with History by default DON’T include attachments!

• If you want to Reply, or Reply with History,

and include the attachments, you have to
click the “down arrow” and select “Reply
with History & Attachments”.

• Forward does include the attachments by default.

• If you want to Forward without the attachments,

click the “down arrow” and select “Forward”.

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• Inbox Actions

• The action buttons at the top of your inbox have changed. Here’s a
quick overview of the first 4 buttons …

Forward an email with attachment(s)

Reply with History to All w/o the attachment(s)
Reply with History w/o the attachment(s)
Create a new email

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• Inbox Actions (continued)

• And now … the other buttons …

Move the selected email to a Folder

Flag the selected email
Trash the selected email
Preferences and Out of Office
Refresh the Inbox
Start a chat (you need to enable the feature)

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• Enabling the “Chat” Button

• As I mentioned, in the previous slide, the “chat

button does not work until you enable the feature.

• To enable the “Inbox Presence Awareness

Feature”, click on your Sametime status and
select “Manage Server Community”.

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• Enabling the “Chat” Button (continued)

• Once the Community settings panel appears,

click on the “Options” tab.

• Finally, click on the “Use canonical names

for status lookup” option.

• Once you close and re-open Lotus Notes,

you will see “presence awareness” icons
in your inbox and will be able to use the
Chat button.

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• The “Show” button …

• You might have noticed that I didn’t mention in

the previous slide the “Show” button which
appears on the right side of the Inbox action bar.

• The “Show” button allows you to :

• Choose the location of the Preview Pane.

• Switch to the “Conversation” view.
• View Unread Emails only.

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• The Preview Pane … A Matter of Preferences …

• Some people like it and some people don’t. But if you use it and you
have a large screen, you can put the Preview Pane either at the
bottom or on the right side of the screen as in the example below.

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• Conversation View

• The “Conversation view” that you can access via the “Show” button
attempts to mimic the Inbox style that has been made popular by
Gmail.

• In the “Conversation” view, the “thread” of the emails can be easily

seen by expanding the conversation. For example, the last reply of
the Brenda is “on top of the stack” but if I click the triangle to expand
the tree, I can see the entire conversation thread.

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• Preferences

• If you click the “More” button in your Inbox,

you can then select “Preferences.

• Once the Preference panel appears, there

are 3 “main tabs” at the top:

• Mail
• Calendar & To Do
• Access & Delegation

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• Mail Preferences

• If you go into the “Mail” tab of the Preferences panel, you’ll see a
plethora of options each categorized in it’s own “sub-tab”.

• There are some important features in each sub-tab that you should be
aware of:

• Basics ... Automatic spell checking

• Signature ... Where you can customize your mail signature
• Follow Up ... Where you can set the default for quick flags
• Sender colors Display emails with a different background colors.
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• Going Out? Enable Your Out of Office …

• If you leave for a vacation, people won’t stop emailing you. So, it’s
important to enable your Out of Office notification.

• You can open the Out of Office screen by

clicking on the “More” button in your Inbox
and then by clicking on “Out of Office”.

• Specified your departure, your return date, the

message to send and click on “Enable and Close”:

• The Out of Office notification now disables itself automatically when

you come back.

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• Message Recall

• Undoubtedly the most loved feature of Lotus Notes R8.5 … after

you’ve used it once!

• To recall an email, go to your “Sent”

folder, click on the email you want
to recall and click the “Recall
Message …” button …

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• Message Recall (continued)

• In the screen that appears, select all the people that you want to
recall the message from and make sure to select the “Recall the
message even if it has been read. After sending the request, you’ll
get a report that details what happened and who had read the email.

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• Message Recall … The Catch 22’s

• You must have kept a copy of the email you sent.

• It only works with employees. Nobody else.

• You can only recall messages that you have sent in the last 14 days.

• BlackBerry users check their emails more often than anybody else
and message recall on a BlackBerry depends on the mobile network
speed … it is not instantaneous!

• If the message is recalled the next day, your message was backed-
up and will remain on the backup tapes for a long time!
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• Follow-up Mini-View

• Since the mail quota information moved to the top of the inbox, there
is now a Mini-View in the lower left side to display emails that you
have set a Follow Up flag on.

• You can hide the Follow Up Mini-View by clicking on the top part of
the Mini-View and dragging it down.

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• Other Mini-Views

• There are other types of Mini-Views that you can select to display.

• To switch Mini-Views, simply click on the arrow and select the one
that you wish to display.

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• New Features In Memos

• When writing new memos, you might use the same functions often
or not, for example: email encryption.

• Lotus has decided to give you the power to enable the display of
certain checkboxes and certain fields if you use them often.

• To create a new memo, you simply click on “New”:

• To display or hide certain fields, click on the

“Display” button:

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• New Memos – Displaying Additional Mail Options

• In a new memo, if you click on the “Display”

view action enable the “Display Additional
Options” feature …

• The following options will appear at the top when writing new
memos:

• This gives you the ability to quickly add, for example, a return
receipt, on an email or to set it as “High Importance”.

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• Signing vs. Encryption … What’s the Difference?

• I get this question a lot: what is the difference between the “sign”
and “encrypt” options at the top?

• When you “Sign” an email, it adds a digital code to the email that
you sent.

• The code is then verified automatically when the other person reads
your email.
• If the verification of the digital code passes, a message appears at the
bottom that says “This message has been signed by …” to indicate that
the client was able to check that it was *really* sent by you.
• If the digital code validation fails, an error message appears to indicate
that the message has been tampered with and might not have really
been sent by you.
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• Signing vs. Encryption … (continued)

• When you “Encrypt” an email, it digitally encodes the content of the

email) so that it can only be read by the persons listed in the To:
field when they open it in their Lotus Notes client. The To: field and
the Subject field are not encrypted however.

• If a message is encrypted, *NOBODY* can read the content of the

message it except the person in the To: field.

• Administrative assistants cannot read encrypted emails (unless they

have the id and password of their boss).

• BlackBerries cannot read encrypted emails (not without going

through a lengthy procedure anyway).
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• Mark Subject “Confidential”

• You might have noticed the “Mark Subject Confidential” option.

• It is not a “real” security feature: it only adds “*Confidential*” to the

Subject line.

• It does not add a digital signature to the email.

• It does not encrypt the email.

• It just saves you the trouble of writing “*Confidential*” in the subject

line yourself!

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• Interesting Delivery Options

• When writing a new email you can click on the

“Delivery Options” field to use some interesting
features.

• If you send emails to groups, use the

“Do not notify me if recipient(s) are
running Out of Office”.

• If you send an email to a personal

group but would like to keep the
group name in the To: field, use the
“Do not expand personal groups”.

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• Recent Contacts …

• You might see the mention of

“Recent Contacts” if you look in
the preferences of your address book.

• We’ve disabled this feature for version R8.5.1 because the logic it
used to automatically populate the recent contacts wasn’t that good.

• And because of the logic it was using to populate “recent contacts”,

it was causing more problems and it was solving.

• We might re-enable it in version R8.5.2.

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• Mail Rules

• Not many people use them but Mail Rules can make your life easier.

• Do you get similar emails and always put them in the same folder?

• Do you have to forward emails from certain people to your boss?

• Then you should scroll to the bottom of left

of your mail file and use Mail Rules!

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• Mail Rules (continued)

• To create a new mail rule, you simply click on

“New Rule”.

• In the screen that appears, you must select a condition, for example,
I want to put all the emails that come from the sender “IPMonitor”
into a folder. To begin, I select “sender” and “contains” as the
condition” and I type IPMonitor.

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• Mail Rules (continued)

• I then select “move to folder” in the actions and click on “Select” to

pick the “IPMonitor” folder. When the folder is selected, I click on
“Add Action”.

• Finally, I just have to click on “OK” to create the mail rule and, from
this point forward, all the emails that come from IPMonitor will be
moved to the folder I specified …

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• Overview

• The calendar interface in Lotus Notes R8.5.1 has been completely

overhauled.

• New navigation options have been included on the left side of the
calendar.

• You can now display other people’s calendar “on top” of yours: it
helps when scheduling team meetings.

• Calendar printing has been improved too!

• And the “Show” button allows you to quickly “filter” your calendar.
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• Navigating the Calendar

• The left side of your calendar now includes many

options to navigate your calendar.

• Use the “Date picker” to jump to a date quickly.

• The “Views” allows you to view your calendar

in different ways (one day, two days, etc…)

• The “Show Calendars” feature allows you to

display other people calendar’s on yours.

• The “New Notices” panel allows you to see

meeting invites you’ve received.
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• Navigating the Calendar (continued)

• You can also move back and forth in your calendar by clicking on
the arrows that point left or right next above the date

• You can also use the “Page Up” and “Page Down” to scroll through
all the items on a calendar day.

• And, you can also use the “left” and “right” arrows on your keyboard
to navigate to the previous and next days respectively.

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• Calendar Views Action Buttons … Simplified …

• Your calendar in Lotus Notes R7 had the following buttons …

• … and your calendar in Lotus Notes R8.5.1 has the following buttons:

• As you can see, they have “simplified” the action buttons a bit …
maybe too much!

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• The “New” Action Button … Defaults to Appointment!

• The “default” action for the “New” button is to

create an Appointment.

• Once you are in the “Appointment screen,

you can switch it to “Meeting”.

• Or, you can click on the “down arrow” of the “New”

button and click on “Meeting”.

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• Changing the “New” Button to Default to “Meeting”

• If you don’t like the “default” behavior of the

“New” button, you can change it by clicking on
“More
Preferences…”.

• Change the “Entry Type”

default from “Appointment”
to “Meeting” and click on
the “OK” button.

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• Preferences for Calendar Views …

• The “Preferences” panel has many options that

control the display of the calendar. You can change
them by clicking on “More
Preferences…”.

• The options for the views are in the “Calendar &

To Do
Display
Views” tab.

• You can change the “size” of the “timeslots”

in that panel.

• You should also enable, if it’s not already enabled, the “Display new
(unprocessed) notices” field (see next slide).

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• Preferences for Calendar Views (continued) …

• Lotus Notes R8.5.1 can display meeting invitations that you have
*not yet accepted* on your calendar!

• But, you have to enable the “Display new (unprocessed) notices”

field in your calendar preferences (see previous slide).

• Once enabled, meeting invitations that you

you have not yet accepted will show up in
your calendar with the word “Invitation” in
front of them.

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• Opening Someone Else Calendar

• You can open someone else's calendar (if you

have access to their calendar) by using the “More”
button and clicking on “Open Person’s Calendar”.

• You will then be prompted to select the

employee that you want to open their
calendar.

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• Opening Someone Else Calendar (continued)

• If you use the “More
Open Person’s Calendar” function often, you
can set a list of employee name that you will be prompted to open
when you use the option.

• To set this up, you have

to click on “More

Preferences” and then you must go on the “Access & Delegation”
tab and then on the “Shortcuts to Others Mail” sub-tab.

• After that, you must enter the names of the

employees in the “Create shortcuts to open
the mail files of these people” field.

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• Using the “Show” button

• Just like in your Inbox, the “Show” button

appears on the right side of the action bar.

• In the “Show” button, you’ll find options for the

position of the Preview Pane and how to display
your calendar (using Summary information or
with the Timeslots).

• You can also enable or disable the “Calendar Footer”.

• And you can also use the “Filter by” menu to show only entries by
Chairperson, Type, Status, etc.

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• Displaying a 2nd Time Zone in your Calendar

• If you often schedule meetings with people in another time-zone,

you might find it useful to see 2 time zones in your calendar.

• You can enable that with a few clicks in the Preferences.

• Start by clicking on File
Preferences.

• Then, click on the “+” sign in front of “Calendar &

To Do” and click on “Regional Settings”.

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• Displaying a 2nd Time Zone in your Calendar (continued)

• In the “Time Zone” section of the

Regional Settings panel …

• Enter the Current Time Zone name.

• Check the “Display an additional time-zone”

• Enter the Time Zone Label and select the time zone
by clicking on the little planet earth icon.

• Once completed, you will see the 2 Time Zones …

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• The “Mark Available” Feature …

• When creating a new appointment or meeting, please keep in mind

that one of the options in Version 7 has been renamed.

• The “Pencil In” option has been renamed to “Mark Available” in

version 8.5.1

• When you use the “Mark Available” option, your time is not blocked
and people can still send you a meeting invitation.
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• Setting Reminders on Appointment and Meetings …

• Lotus Notes can “warn” you when you an appointment or meeting

that’s coming up.

• You can manually configure it to notify you by clicking

on the “Notify Me” checkbox when creating an
appointment or meeting.

• Or you go into “Preference
More” and

then enable the “Display alarm
notifications” field on the “Alarms” tab.
That setting will apply to all new
Appointements/Meetings, Reminders, etc.

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• Marking Appointments and Meetings “Private”

• If you have given access to your calendar to other employees but

still want to add appointments and meetings that are personal in
nature, you can “Mark them as Private”.

• When, “Mark Private” is enabled, people who have access to your

calendar will not be able to see the subject of the entry.

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Q&A
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• Questions & Answers

– “Ask Now or Forever Hold Your Peace” ☺

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