Overview: Students will learn about additional and advanced features available in Notes 5.0.
Prerequisites: Notes 5.0: Database Features and Notes 5.0: Mail Features, or equivalent knowledge.
Performance-based objectives
Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
* Use search features to locate Notes users, Notes databases, Internet email addresses, and Web sites.
* Create programmed tables and tables with special transition effects.
* Enable the automatic spell checking feature, add signatures to every outgoing email message, use the Notes Minder application to check for new mail while Notes is not running, import holidays into their calendar, and use archive settings to create a mail archive database and an archive log database.
* Change the Home page and create new Welcome page styles, display SmartIcons, and use the Workspace to organize databases.
* Create a new database from a template, embed information in a document, import a text file into a Notes view, and export a Notes view to a Lotus 1-2-3 worksheet file.
* Create a private view; create a personal folder; create a bookmark folder; and create, test, run, and schedule an agent.
Course content
Lesson 1: Searching with Notes
Locating people and databases in Notes
Internet searching and adding Search Sites
Setting up the Page Minder feature
Lesson 2: Advanced tables
Using animated tables
Using programmed tables
Lesson 3: Advanced mail features
Using Notes Minder
Using auto spell check and signatures
Importing holidays
Archiving mail
Lesson 4: Home pages
Changing and creating Welcome page styles
Using the Workspace and displaying SmartIcons
Changing your Home page
Lesson 5: Creating new databases and importing data
Creating a new document library database
Embedding information in Notes documents
Importing text files into Notes views
Exporting documents and views
Lesson 6: Creating views, folders, and agents
Creating private views
Creating personal folders
Creating bookmark folders
Creating agents