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IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide

You're reading from IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide

Product type Book

Published in Aug 2010

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849680202

Pages 296 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

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Business Management

Author (1):

Karen Hooper

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Preface

1. First Impressions (The Client Interface)

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

What is Lotus Symphony

Lotus Symphony is an office productivity suite that allows us to create, edit, and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. It is provided free of charge by IBM and can be downloaded and installed as a standalone product; however, we will be exploring the integrated version of Symphony, which is within Lotus Notes. When we install Lotus Notes, we can select to install the productivity tools called Lotus Symphony.

If Symphony has been installed, we will see the options to create Documents, Presentations, and Spreadsheets on the Home page as shown here:

As Symphony provides support for Open Document Format, we can import and edit Microsoft^® Office documents and export those documents to ODF for sharing with ODF-compliant applications and solutions. The advantage of this feature is that we are not locked-in to any one vendor's proprietary technology. There are several office suite applications that support ODF, which is important in moving forward as this ensures...

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Authors (1)

Karen Hooper

Karen Hooper is a member of the Dr Notes Solutions team and is an IBM Certified Instructor and Lotus Notes consultant. Karen has over 13 years experience with Lotus Notes and Domino. In that time Karen has been involved in several major upgrade projects and company wide training initiatives. She is responsible for customizing and producing training material for several organizations. Karen is also a technical trainer in both Domino System Administration and Development. Her passion is to empower people to be more productive and she has seen thousands of people benefit from her style of training. Karen lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband Steve. They are blessed with two children Zac and Zoe and two Cavoodles, Jess and Bella.

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