Introduction: In our daytoday work with IBM® Notes®, the Typeahead feature is used extensively. While addressing a new mail message or an invitation, when you start typing a name, you get a “type ahead” list, suggesting matching contacts from your MyRecent Contacts. Many times, you see names ...

Ever get confused by similar names in your Contacts list? You can choose to display an attribute, such as "Job Title", for your typeahead Contacts, and avoid sending the wrong email to the wrong person. To set this preference, click File Preferences, click Contacts, and then choose an attribute ...

Create groups to use as mailing lists and view information about people, such as title, address, birthday, and more in a business card format.

If you are synchronizing contacts (or replicating syncing), and you see the error "Sync aborted due to incorrect mail file," this article will help you troubleshoot the problem. Why am I getting this error This error prevents you from synchronizing contacts with someone else's contacts. The ...

If bidirectional text is enabled in Notes, you can set the reading order for paragraphs in a document. Put the document in Edit mode. Select the text that you want to specify a reading order for. Click Text Text Properties. Click the Paragraph Alignment tab. Click LefttoRight or RighttoLeft ...

You can check the spelling of the entire document or of selected words in a document. The spell checker uses a default dictionary and a user dictionary that you can customize by adding words The spell checker does not check singlecharacter words (such as "a"), text that does not contain letters ...

You can use additional language dictionaries to check the spelling in documents that use more than one language. To indicate which language dictionary to use, you tag the text in the document to check spelling against a language specific dictionary (the correct language dictionary must be ...

Usually there is no problem retaining your workspace and bookmarks when you upgrade or uninstallreinstall Notes. But if you're concerned, you can copy the following files before upgrading or uninstallingreinstalling, and then add those files back in afterwards. In the ...NotesData folder, copy ...

This video shows how to make your local contacts available in iNotes and how Notes provides functionality to keep them synchronized via replication.

If you are a regular or roaming user and you want to use your Notes contacts on a blackberry, you need to enable synchronization for your contacts and then replicate. Follow these steps: In Notes, click File Preferences, and then select Contacts. Select Enable "Synchronize Contacts" on the ...

When you cut and paste things in emails, calendar entries, or other Notes documents, you can paste them in a different format than their original. Click where you want to place the data, then click Edit Paste Special. In the As field, select the format (choices will vary). You can cut and paste ...

If you don't see the Attach File icon in an email, calendar entry, to do item, or other Notes document, you can click the More Buttons icon in the Text Properties toolbar to see more text properties options. Notes Standard: Notes Basic:

New in Notes 8.5.2: From Mail, Calendar, or To Do, you can open your Contacts by selecting the switchto icon and selecting Switch to Contacts .     Note : You must be using Notes 8.5.2 client, and 8.5 or higher mail template.   For a complete list on 8.5.x features and requirements, see: a ...

In Notes 8.5.2, you can make a contact or group private, to hide it from anyone who has access to your contacts but not your mail. If someone has access to your mail, then he or she can see private contacts and groups. To mark a new contact or group as private, click the Mark Private check box ...

If you create a new contact whose name consists of more than two parts (ex: Peter Le Chair or Ellen Van Den Berg), then the Name Helper will appear to help you designate which is the last, first, or middle names. If you don't want to Name Helper to appear, you can set a preference to always accept ...

If you create a new contact whose name consists of more than two parts (for example, Peter Le Clair or Ellen Van Den Berg), then the Name Helper will appear. Specify how to divide contact's names, so it is correctly divided into first, middle, and last name(surname):

In Notes 8.5.2, you can send someone a group or location from your contacts. The recipient gets an email that allows them to import the group or location into their contacts. To send someone a group, go to Contacts, open Groups, select the group you want to send, and then click Send. To send a ...

If you have a bunch of contacts in Excel, and you'd like to create a group (which is the same as a mailing list) out of them in Notes, here is how you do it.

Your Contacts file is the file in which all of your contact entries are stored. By default, the file is called names.nsf, and is created for you automatically. When you address a message to a person, IBM Lotus Notes looks in your Contacts file (names.nsf) for the person's mail address. You can ...