BROWSING THE WEB FROM NOTES

Setting up your Web connection
You can browse the Web directly from IBM Lotus Notes. Notes saves Web pages that you visit locally in a Personal Web Navigator application. This lets you browse while offline and enables you to open already visited pages faster because Notes retrieves them from the Web Navigator application instead of the Web.

A direct connection and the Personal Web Navigator also allow you to:


To connect to the Web

Before you begin, ask your administrator if you connect to the Web through a proxy server. If you do, ask for the name or IP address of the proxy server.

1. Make sure you are running TCP/IP by choosing File > Preferences > User Preferences (Macintosh OS X users, Lotus Notes > Preferences > User Preferences) and clicking Ports. If you don't see a TCP/IP connection there, click the Start button, then click Settings > Control Panel > Network to make sure TCP/IP is enabled.

2. From the menu, click File > Preferences > Location Preferences.

3. Click the Basics tab.

4. If you connect to the Internet through a proxy server, enter the name or IP address of the proxy server in the Proxy field. To configure all proxy settings, click Proxy button to open the Proxy Server Configuration dialog box.

5. Click the Internet Browser tab.

6. Click Notes with Internet Explorer.

7. Click Save and Close.

Related topics
Browsing Web pages offline
Saving Web pages using Notes with Internet Explorer
Tracking Web pages with Page Minder
Rating and recommending Web pages
Changing Web browsers