| Feature | How do I use it? |
| General |  |
| Context menus streamlined for mail, contacts, and to do views | Right-click documents in any of these views, and you see a more concise menu with options relevant to the context. Additionally, you can right-click documents to mark them read or unread. |
| Preferences |
- Automatically compress images pasted into documents. Bitmap (.bmp) images that are imported into a Notes document are compressed; bitmap images that are pasted into a Notes document are converted to a .gif or .jpg format. Click File > Preferences > User Preferences, and then click the appropriate setting under Additional options. (The setting is selected by default.)
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 Mail signatures imported from preferences will now be ignored by all Spell Check operations.
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 Convenient toolbar icons for often used editing options
| You can use toolbar icons to perform the following editing tasks:
- A text color icon you can click to set the color of new text or change the color of selected text.
- A highlighter icon you can click to enable or disable highlighting. The cursor changes to show that you are using the highlighter.
- An insert link icon you can click to create hotspot links for selected text
- An underline icon you can click to underline selected text
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 Convenient table editing options
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- Drag column or row margins to resize
- Drag the margins of the entire table to resize it
- Drag the contents from one cell to another
- Set the table width when creating a fixed width table
- Easily insert a new row or column by holding down the Shift key and double-clicking the common border
- Multiple undo actions
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 Editor improvements
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- Multiple undo actions in a list
- Cursor changes to show when permanent pen or highlighter is in use
- 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 the document is saved.)
- Improved selection behavior when selecting text in a Notes section.
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| Drag and drop |
- Between rich text fields in Notes documents (Windows only)
- Drag Sametime names or groups to Notes name fields and rich text fields
- Drag names from external applications to Notes name fields
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| Documents | You can view and import Microsoft Office 2007, Office 98-2003, and Symphony attachments, and you can perform a full text search on them. |
| Mail | |
| Type-ahead includes all e-mail addresses stored in a person's contact entry | To select an alternate e-mail address, when you begin typing a name, select Other E-mail Addresses from the menu that appears. The more frequently used addresses display at the top of the list. |
| Folder column in mail All Documents view | A new Folder column in the mail All Documents view displays any mail folders that a document is in. |
| Roaming rich text mail signatures | If you specify a mail signature in your mail preferences, it is stored in your mail file so that it is available on any computer where you use Notes. |
| Calendar | |
| Add activities, private or public Google calendars, an iCalendar feed, another Notes user's calendar, or a Notes application's calendar (such as a Notes TeamRoom's calendar) | In the Views panel of the calendar navigator, click My Calendars, click Add a Calendar, and so on. To display or hide the added calendar's entries, select or deselect the check box beside the calendar's name under My Calendars. |
| Horizontal scroll bar for calendar views | When all of the header information for calendar entries cannot be displayed completely on a day in a calendar view, the day displays a horizontal scroll bar. You can use a mouse or a keyboard's left and right arrow keys to scroll with the bar and display the rest of the header information for calendar entries. |
| Compatibility mode for repeating meeting invitations | A new meeting invitation option, Some invitees use other mail programs, limits the set of actions allowed on repeating meetings to accommodate invitees who might be using mail programs that cannot handle more complex repeating meeting actions. Note that this option may or may not appear or be changeable depending on how administrators set up the compatibility mode. |
| Contacts | |
 Append a vCard to your signature
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You can append a vCard to your signature. Click File > Preferences, expand Mail, and then click theSignature tab. Click Append My vCard.
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| Import and export contacts | To import external contacts to your Notes Contacts, from Contacts, click File > Import Contacts. If field remapping is required, it can be done first or in Contacts after the import.
To export contacts (and now filter which contacts and fields to export), from Contacts, click File > Export > Contacts. |
| Forward contacts as a vCard | From Contacts, select the contacts you want to forward as a vCard and click Forward vCard. |
| Adding international sets of alphabet tabs | Click the menu icon at the bottom of the tabs column.  Choose from Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, or Cyrillic. |
| Applications | |
| New Notebook (formerly Personal Journal template) | The Personal Journal template has a new name and a new look. For more information, see the About this Application and Using this Application documents available from the Notebook application Help menu. |
| Security | |
| Help if you forget your password | If you forget your password, click Forgot your password? at Notes login to see instructions from your administrator describing how to get a new one. |
| Option to eliminate Notes password prompts | Your administrator may enable you to log in to Notes using your operating system login (Notes shared login). In this case, you can start Notes without providing a Notes password. All you have to do is log in to Microsoft Windows using your Windows password. This feature is an improvement over the Client Single Logon feature available previously because no synchronization of the Windows and Notes passwords is done. Your administrator may require you to use this feature, or give you the option to use it. To enable it yourself if your administrator allows you to, click File > Security > User Security and select Login to Notes using your operating system login. |