Or drag a Notepad shortcut to the Open list.ĭocuments You can view and import Microsoft® Office 2007, Office 98-2003, and Symphony attachments, and you can perform a full text search on them.
For example, drag a Symphony™ document to a Bookmark folder, In 8.5.2, those class and ID attributes from the HTML parser are carried along to the editor and applied appropriately.īetween rich text fields in Notes documents (Windows® only)ĭrag Sametime® names or groups to Notes name fields and rich text fieldsĭrag names from external applications to Notes name fieldsĭrag Search results from desktop search or IBM Lotus Connections search to Notes documentsĭrag email to the main or sidebar calendar to create a calendar entryĭrag calendar entries to a new date in the main or sidebar calendar to reschedule or counterĭrag documents or shortcuts from your operating system Desktop or file folder to the Open list or a Bookmark folder. Because of that, the editor would create a table, but wouldn't know it was ofĪ certain class, such as 'BorderedTable', so the table would not get the appropriate style applied. In earlier releases of Notes, the HTML parser properly handled 'class' and 'id' attributes, but was not passing them on to the editor. Improved selection behavior when selecting text in a Notes section. List elements do not display if there is no text on the line (Note that in edit mode, if the cursor is located on a line then the list element displays, but if no text is entered, the list element is hidden when Set the table width when creating a fixed width tableĮasily insert a new row or column by holding down the Shift key and double-clicking the common borderĬursor changes to show when permanent pen or highlighter is in use The cursor changes to show that you are using the highlighter.Īn insert link icon you can click to create hotspot links for selected textĪn underline icon you can click to underline selected textĭrag the margins of the entire table to resize itĭrag the contents from one cell to another You can use toolbar icons to perform the following editing tasks:Ī text color icon you can click to set the color of new text or change the color of selected text.Ī highlighter icon you can click to enable or disable highlighting. Preference, click File > Preferences, click Basic Client Configuration, and then de-select "Enable Icon Popup Help in View". You can now choose not to see pop-up help (the help blurbs that appear if you hover over certain icons in an application) for Mail, Calendar, To-Do, and Contacts. Letter typing two capital letters, such as JOhn.
New Spell Check preference options let you automatically correct three common typing errors: Typical spelling errors, such as "teh" instead of "the " starting a sentence with a lowercase Mail signatures imported from preferences will now be ignored by all Spell Check operations. Also note that this preference provides you with an easy way to enlarge the text in the data areas of Notes, such as the Inbox and messages. Click File > Preferences, and then click the Fonts and Colors preference. (The setting is selected byīack by popular demand, you can use red text to indicate unread documents. Click File > Preferences, click Basic Notes Client Configuration, and then click the appropriate setting under Additional options. Bitmap (.bmp) images that are imported into a Notes document are compressed bitmap images that are pasted into a Notes document areĬonverted to a. You can navigate Notes preference fields using the Tab key.Īutomatically compress images pasted into documents. Click Open > LotusĬonnections, and then select the feature that you want to use. If you have installed the Activities sidebar and configured it to connect to a Lotus® Connections server, you can access the Lotus Connections features from the Notes® Open list. Additionally, you can right-click documents to mark them read or unread. Right-click documents in any of these views, and you see a more concise menu with options relevant to the context. New Features in the Lotus Notes 8.5 codestream To find and contribute information and videos about using Lotus Notes, see the Lotus Notes and Domino wiki at. In general, except for the new 8.5.2 features described in this topic, the rest of the Lotus Notes content documents Notes release 8.5.1.
The following table lists features new to the IBM® Lotus Notes® 8.5.x codestream, and tells you how to get started using those features. What's new in lotus notes 8.5, 8.5.1, and 8.5