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.

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:

*     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