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IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide

You're reading from   IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide A practical hands-on user guide with time saving tips and comprehensive instructions for using Lotus Notes effectively and efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849680202
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Karen Hooper Karen Hooper
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
1. First Impressions (The Client Interface) FREE CHAPTER 2. To Chat or Not to Chat: Lotus Sametime 3. Feeds 4. Working with Widgets 5. Mastering Lotus Notes Mail 6. Lotus Notes Mail Tools 7. Managing Contacts 8. Calendar and To Dos 9. Working with Lotus Notes Applications 10. Working Remotely (Replication/Synchronization) 11. Symphony Index

Exploring Live Text


Live Text is text that has an action capability. It gives us various possibilities.

  • It could be an address and the action may be that when we select an address we can open Google Maps to that address

  • It could be a number and the action is that we can open a window to convert the number into another currency

  • Finally, it could be the text of a flight number and the action available here could be that we can check the status of the flight

The following is an example of how Live Text appears; it is underlined and when we move our mouse over what is underlined, a down arrow icon appears along with pop-up text letting us know that we need to click on that icon for Live Text actions.

As per our example above, when we click the down arrow icon (Click for Live Text Actions) we can select to open Google Maps as per the following screenshot:

Live Text preferences

To ensure we can see Live Text follow the steps below. Our organization may have already enabled Live Text.

  1. Select File | Preferences...

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