Notes 5.0 (R5): New Features

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.

Target Student

Students enrolling in this course should understand basic Notes, mail, and Internet concepts.

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.

Delivery Method

Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Course duration

1 Day(s)

Course outline

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

Hardware/software Requirements

An IBM-compatible PC with an 80486 processor or higher (Pentium processor is recommended), and 150 megabytes (MB) of hard disk space; a local area network (LAN) adapter that works with any network operating system that supports Notes; a minimum of 16 MB of Random Access Memory (RAM); direct access to the Internet; a VGA or SVGA video monitor; and a Windows-compatible mouse. Printers are not required, although you will need an installed printer driver.

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