CONTACTS


Managing Contacts files
Your Contacts file is the file in which all of your contact entries are stored. By default, it is called names.nsf, and is created for you automatically.
Creating a Contacts file
Deleting a Contacts file

You can delete a Contacts file as you would delete any file, but make sure that you always have at least one Contacts file or Notes will not run. Never delete your only names.nsf file.

If your names.nsf file becomes corrupted, ask your administrator for assistance in creating a new one and retrieving as much information as possible from the corrupted one. Back up your Contacts file frequently.

Changing or adding contacts files

You can change the Contacts file that Lotus Notes uses to find e-mail address, or you can use more than one Contacts file. If you use more than one Contacts file, then each of the local contacts files appear as a choice when you want to search for a name in dialog boxes such as the "Select Address" dialog box.

1. From the menu, click File > Preferences > User Preferences

2. Expand Mail, and then click Sending and Receiving.

3. In the Local address books field, do one of the following:

4. Click OK, and then exit and restart Lotus NotesR.

Tip: To change the name of your Contacts file in your bookmarks, change the title in the application properties, for example, from "Jane Q Public's Contacts" to "My Good Contacts 12-02-02."

Related topics
Creating a Notes application