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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
Author (1):
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) 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

Addressing messages


We can address a message by either selecting a recipient's name from our contacts or the Corporate Directory. We can also type names directly into the To, Cc, and Bcc fields. If we type names directly, Lotus Notes uses a type-ahead feature that completes names based on the first few letters we type.

How to address a message

It is as simple as typing a person's name but there are some other options available as follows:

  1. When we create a message, our cursor will automatically go to the To field in the new message. If we know the person's name, we just need to type it and we will see a list of names appear. This list shows our most Recent Contacts as Lotus Notes keeps track of the people that we communicate with most often and moves those names to the top of our type-ahead list. Note that the list is not in alphabetical order.

  2. Many people have more than one e-mail address. If a person in our contacts has an alternative e-mail address, we would see an arrow as circled in the...

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