1. Lotus Notes Tips and Tricks

2. I didn’t know Notes could do that!!!

4. Rearranging Table Cells or List Items
CTRL + UP, CTRL + DOWN Ed
Steve
John
Alan
Alan Ed
John
Steve

5. Keep Document Context When Switching Views
Select document, press and hold CTRL, switch views

6. Copy Selected As Table

7. Copy Selected As Table to Spreadsheet

8. Powerful Text Formatting Shortcuts
Increase/Decrease Font size
Select text, press F2
Select text, press Shift + F2
Convert to bulleted list
Select text, press Alt + T, then L, then L
Indent/Outdent
Select text, press F8
Select text, press Shift + F8

9. Re-arranging Mail Addresses
You can’t drag and drop in the itself, but you can in the Address Dialog box.

10. Attachment Viewers
You don’t always have to launch the native application, use “View” instead.
Magnify
Rotate
View and extract zip files!

11. Drag and Drop Attachments
From Notes to OS
From OS to Notes
Hover over Windows taskbar buttons to make Notes active.
Within Notes, hover over window tab to make that document active

12. Picture Properties
A little formatting can make a document look much better.

13. Picture Links Add links to pictures to make them “come to life”
Image maps
Fancier DB, View, or document links

14. Picture Wrap Wrap Text Align Images

15. Create New Folder Easily create a document from any database

16. StartUp Folder
Automatically start databases, links, application, files!

17. Extended Accelerators
Press the ALT key, and numbers appear on the Action Buttons in the current document or view
Press ALT + W, numbers appear over the Windows tabs
Press ALT + B, numbers appear over the bookmark icons

18. Tabbed Window Interface
Now every program wants to look like Notes! (IM clients, newsreaders, web browsers)
Drag and Drop Re-order
Open In New
Notes 7 = Close All
Saved Windows State

19. Navigation History
If you prefer your keyboard to the mouse, you can use ALT+LEFT ARROW to go back, and ALT+RIGHT ARROW to go forward.

20. Creating Groups Copy Into New Group
Add Recipients to Group in Address Book

21. Suggested Meeting Times
Let Notes find the best time for a meeting.

22. Summarize Calendar

23. Print Calendar To Document
BEST HIDDEN FEATURE IN NOTES!
Weekly, Monthly, Calendar List
Forward via

24. Tools!

25. Content Paste
Do you have bits of information that you reuse over and over again?

26. Share Documents
Have you ever wanted to easily copy or move information from your mail file to a TeamRoom, Document Library, Personal Journal, or any other database?

27. Linker More “URL-link” database, document, or view links.

28. Map Address
Have you ever wanted to generate a map to one of the contacts in your Personal Address Book?

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