ELEMENTS OF LOTUS NOTES

Getting Help
You can get help that is specific to many of the tasks you are performing, or you can open complete Help on all areas of IBMR Lotus NotesR.

You can get the following types of Help in IBM Lotus NotesR:


Context-sensitive Help is available in most areas of Lotus Notes including dialog boxes and properties boxes. To see it, press F1, choose Help > Context Help, or click the question mark on any dialog box or properties box.

To see all the Help available, choose Help > Help Topics from the main menu.

Once you open Help, you can use the Contents, the Index, or the (full-text) Search to locate topics. You can also open Help for other Lotus Notes products (for example, Help for IBM LotusR DominoR Designer while in Lotus Notes) by using the Actions menu in the Help window.

Getting help when there is no Help

If you don't have Help locally, and you choose a Help command, Lotus Notes opens the Help on your mail server. When you search this Help, make sure you see a green circle and the word "Indexed" in the Search bar. If not, ask the server administrator to full-text index the Help.

If you try to access Help, and see a message saying "Help files are not available," ask your organization's Domino administrator to add the Help files to your mail server.

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