Notes 5.0 Advanced Features

Course description

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