For information on new features and enhancements specific to Notes 6.5, see the topic What's new in IBM Lotus Notes 6.5?.

Periodic updates to Notes client Help are available on the Web. To download the latest Notes client Help file, go to http://www.lotus.com/ldd/doc. In the "Documentation Links" section, click "by product," then "Notes," and finally under Notes Client Help versions, click the number for the latest release.

Click any link to learn more about specific new features and enhancements for Notes 6:

• Calendar
• Documents
• Internet standards support
• Mail
• Navigation
• One-stop connection setup
• Preferences
• Printing
• Remote use and roaming
• Search
• Security
• TeamRoom
• Welcome Page

New features and enhancements added to Calendar and Scheduling let you:

• Color-code entries
• Display a variety of new views (work month, work week, summary)
• Customize information displayed in each entry
• Switch days, weeks, months, and years more easily
• Display an additional time zone
• Select a time zone for a meeting
• Display a localized, secondary calendar
• View and print participant status information for a meeting
• Update scheduled meetings more easily

New features and enhancements within documents let you:

• Modify Spell Check so that it ignores words that contain numbers or all uppercase letters
• Identify and mark languages within a document
• Drag and drop files within Notes and between your operating system and Notes
• Place a border around a selected paragraph
• Change the color and edge of buttons
• Set button widths regardless of the font setting in User Preferences or the length of the button
• Rearrange a list by moving items up or down
• Hide paragraphs from mobile devices
• Place tabs on any side of a tabbed table
• Select and move (cut and paste) an entire table of data
• Copy a view as a table
• Use keyboard shortcuts to move the contents in a table row up or down
• Create a table with row captions
• Lock a document to prevent replication and save conflicts

Notes embraces Internet messaging standards so now you can view Internet mail messages, Web pages, and newsgroups with full fidelity (because of MIME and HTML support) and security (using SSL, S/MIME, and X.509 certificates).

You can read and send messages to any IMAP or POP3 server (your ISP, for example). You can read and post messages to an NNTP newsgroup, search any LDAP directory, such as bigfoot.com. This is especially helpful when you are in the middle of addressing a mail message and you need to look up an e-mail address quickly.

Mail

• You can use Notes as the client for either Notes mail or Internet mail.
• You can take advantage of Internet address searching and newsgroups, with a redesigned easy-to-use interface for mail configuration.
• You can streamline your replies and forwarded messages by stripping pictures and attachments and format these types of messages Internet-style.
• Deletions are immediate, no longer requiring a view refresh, and folders display the number of unread messages.
• Your address book is compatible with electronic business cards (vCards).
• Archiving becomes more powerful with organization-wide policies crafted by your administrator.
• You can more easily delegate access to your mail or manage mail databases for others.
• You can customize your mail views with your mouse, rearranging or hiding columns, and setting colors to identify senders. Notes remembers your sorting and color preferences.

New features and enhancements to bookmarks and the Notes user interface let you:

• Customize the information displayed in a view
• Select multiple bookmarks and bookmark folders
• Locate bookmarks with the keyboard
• Display your bookmarks as a grid like the workspace
• Locate a document, view, database, or Web page you visited several days ago
• Reorder window tabs by dragging

After you install and open the Notes client for the first time, Notes guides you through setting up initial connections. Notes prompts you for the type of mail connection you need -- Notes mail on a Domino server, Internet mail from an Internet server, or both -- and the type of physical connection you need -- local area network (which includes broad band) or dialup -- and automatically creates the necessary configuration documents in your Personal Address Book. You'll also have an opportunity to choose a NNTP server for Internet newsgroups and an LDAP server for Internet name lookups. See Setting up Notes for the first time for more information.

After you've set up initial connections, you can choose File - Preferences - Client Reconfiguration Wizard any time to modify existing connections or add new ones. Notes updates your configurations and creates or modifies all necessary documents in your personal address book.

Preferences

New features and enhancements added to user preferences let you:

• Use a Window menu option to switch between windows
• Enable a MIME save warning
• Show in-line MIME images as attachments
• Specify a particular format for time or date input by a user
• Use the language of the form when the text language is unspecified
• Invoke Notes on vCard files

New features added to printing let you:

• Print in the background while you continue working
• Specify time ranges within the "rolling print" option when printing your calendar
• Print multiple time zones as they appear in the Calendar view
• Print your Calendar views (daily, weekly, and monthly) as a single document on trifold panels
• Print your address book contacts as labels
• Print framesets

Remote use and roaming

It's easier than ever to use Notes outside your office, at home, when you travel, when you're disconnected from a network or phone line, and on multiple computers. The redesigned Replicator page lets you drag and drop databases or selected documents to create local replicas on your computer that Notes can rapidly synchronize with server-based databases. You can group replica entries in folders and customize the page to display as a slide-out panel like the bookmarks or to fit more entries at once. Several templates now include custom forms for selective replication.

Additionally, your Domino administrator can set you up as a "roaming user" so that using Notes on multiple computers becomes easier. When you work as a roaming user, your personal address book, bookmarks, and other information automatically replicate to all the computers you use. As a roaming user with improved replication for all databases, you can have your own personalized Notes setup and all the latest information with you wherever you use Notes.

Search

You can now search the results of a search.

Security

New features added to security let you:

• Find all the Notes security settings in User Security
• Log in to Notes using a Smartcard
• View a person or server's effective access for a database
• Reset your Execution Control Lists (ECLs) to the administrator's defaults
• Synchronize your Notes and Domino web/Internet password, if allowed by your administrator
• Change your password with greater convenience

New features and enhancements added to TeamRoom let you:

• Create announcements for the entire team in the Announcements page view
• Update the ACL for team members quickly and easily
• Write individual status reports
• Gain fast access to selected documents through use of the Preview pane

The Welcome Page provides new features that let you:

• Use a wizard to personalize your page display
• Launch bookmarks from the Welcome Page (launch pad)
• Change the content of your frames
• Use Quick Notes to create and send a mail message, add a contact to your Personal Address Book, write an entry to your personal journal, or set up a reminder in your calendar without having to open a database.

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