GETTING STARTED

Getting started
Welcome to the latest release of IBMŸLotus NotesŸ. Lotus Notes is a powerful, multifaceted software for MicrosoftŸWindowsŸ, Macintosh, and LinuxŸ computers that gives you instant access to all the information that is important to you. You can use Lotus Notes to send and receive Internet mail, schedule appointments, browse the Web, and to use applications designed for use with Notes.

Home Page

The Home Page gives you immediate access to your mail, contacts, calendar, and more. And you can create new Home Pages, customized to suit your needs.

Home page showing new item buttons

Help

To get Help while you are exploring Lotus Notes, press F1 (Macintosh users, press Command+Shift+?) or click Help -> Context Help from the menu. To see all the Help available, choose Help -> Help Contents from the menu.

Advanced menus

For advanced users, a set of advanced menus can be displayed. Advanced menus are targeted for administrators or designers, and include options such as archiving or deleting applications, or replacing a NotesŸ application design. If you enable advanced menus (View -> Advanced Menus), they are available for subsequent Notes sessions.

Note: If you install the DominoŸ Administrator client or Domino Designer, advanced menus are enabled by default.

Opening applications

If you opened your applications from the File menu (File -> Database -> Open) in previous releases, you may notice that the File menu has changed, and you now use File -> Open -> Lotus Notes Application.

Related concepts
Your home page
Notes applications
Upgrading your mail file design

Related tasks
Getting Help