Notes 5.0 Database Features
Course description
Overview: Students will learn how to use the basic database features in Notes 5.0.
Prerequisites: Windows 95: Introduction, Windows 98: Making the Transition, or Windows NT Workstation 4.0: Orientation, or equivalent knowledge.
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:
* Describe the basic concepts of Notes and get started working with Notes.
* Use different types of Notes databases and be able to create, save, and close both main-topic and response database documents that contain a variety of field types.
* Create documents that take advantage of editing and formatting features, spell check their documents, create and apply named styles, add tables, and create links, hotspots, and sections.
* Search for information in database documents by using the Search bar and the Search Builder.
* Create and use additional database types, including subscriptions, Microsoft Office Library, and Web Navigator databases.
* Use Notes efficiently from a remote location by replicating and protecting database information.
Course content
Lesson 1: The Notes environment
An overview of Notes databases
Working with databases
Working with the database window
Notes user preferences
Lesson 2: Creating database documents
Previewing and reading database documents
Creating main-topic documents
Creating response documents
Deleting documents
Lesson 3: Working with database documents
Working with document text
Text styles
Working with tables and tabbed tables
Links, sections, and hotspots
Lesson 4: Searching a database
Database indexes
Searching an indexed database
Using the Search Builder
Lesson 5: Additional database types
The Subscriptions Results page
Library databases
Web Navigator databases
Lesson 6: Working remotely with databases
Replicating databases
Setting local database properties
Securing local databases