Notes 5.0 New Features

Course description

Overview: Students will learn about features new to Notes 5.0.

Prerequisites: Notes 4.6: Database Features, Notes 4.6: Advanced Features, and Notes 4.6: Mail Features; Notes 4.5 Introduction and Notes 4.5 Advanced, 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:

*     Identify the components of the new Notes workstation environment, including creating and using

bookmarks and bookmark folders.

*     Use the Highlighter while editing a document and create tabbed tables and tables with special effects.

*     Enable the automatic spell checking feature and add signatures to every outgoing email message and use the Notes Minder application to check for new mail while Notes is not running.

*     Use the new Calendar interface, use Owner Actions to check the Participant Status for a meeting,  import holidays into your calendar, create and use Group Calendars, and use the new print options for printing Calendars.

*     Change the Home page and create new Welcome page styles, and use the new design window to create a private view.

*     Use search features to locate Notes users, Notes databases, Internet email addresses, and Web sites.

*     Use archive settings to create an archive database and an archive log database.

Course content

Lesson 1: Exploring the User Interface

The Welcome page

Bookmarks

The Workspace and SmartIcons

Lesson 2: Navigation and Editing techniques

Editing techniques

Navigation techniques

User preferences

Lesson 3: Mail and the Personal Address Book

New mail Preferences

Rules

Notes Minder

The Personal Address Book

Lesson 4: Calendar and Scheduling features

The calendar interface

Checking free time 

Owner and Participant Actions

To Do lists

Calendar Preferences

Examining printing options

Lesson 5: Personal design features

Welcome page

Private views

Lesson 6: Searching and organizing information

Searching Notes databases

Internet searching

Create bookmarks for web sites

Subscriptions

Lesson 7: Location documents and archiving databases

Location documents

Database archives