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Elements of Notes®
The IBM® Notes® user interface is comprised of views menus, toolbars, navigation panes, and a sidebar that you can use for easy access to some frequently used applications.
Preferences
You can customize IBM® Notes® so that it runs and displays just the way you want it to using Notes® preferences.
How can I set up my Notes client for other languages or regions?
You can use regional settings to change your content language, sorting language, interface language, and units of measurement.
How can I change how Notes translates characters?
When you import or export files, you can specify the character translation file IBM® Notes® uses to translate characters, such as international currency symbols, in the files.

Elements of Notes®
The IBM® Notes® user interface is comprised of views menus, toolbars, navigation panes, and a sidebar that you can use for easy access to some frequently used applications.
- Using the Open list
  Use the Open list to open IBM® Notes® applications, documents, bookmarks and bookmark folders. The Open list displays icons and a brief description for each item.
- Toolbars
  Toolbars work with all the applications in your workspace. Some toolbars are context sensitive, which means that they change depending on the task you are performing.
- Using the sidebar
  The sidebar provides constant access to your IBM® Sametime® Contacts, Calendar, Feed Reader, and Activities. You can change which of these applications displays in your sidebar. However, depending on your organization, you may not have all of these applications in your sidebar.
- Status bar: current state information
  The status bar appears at the end of the IBM® Notes® main window. As you work in Notes, system messages and features appear in the status bar.
- Working with window tabs
  Window tabs make it convenient for you to switch from one open document or application to another in IBM® Notes®.
- Preferences
  You can customize IBM® Notes® so that it runs and displays just the way you want it to using Notes® preferences.
  - How do I customize my Notes Client?
    You can customize IBM® Notes® so that it runs and displays just the way you want it to using Notes preferences.
  - How do I customize the Notes color theme?
    Choose an overall color theme for the Notes interface. Customize colors for specific parts of the interface.
  - How can I set up my Notes client for other languages or regions?
    You can use regional settings to change your content language, sorting language, interface language, and units of measurement.
    - How can I choose a regional profile for Notes?
      You can use regional settings to change your content language, sorting language, interface language, and units of measurement.
    - How can I specify text direction and cursor behavior for bi-directional languages?
      If you are using a bi-directional language such as Arabic or Hebrew, you can set the IBM® Notes® menus and text to read in the direction appropriate for the language, and specify cursor movement appropriate to the language.
    - How can I change how Notes translates characters?
      When you import or export files, you can specify the character translation file IBM® Notes® uses to translate characters, such as international currency symbols, in the files.
    - How can I change the unit of measurement used in Notes?
      You can change the unit of measurement used in Notes® to metric or imperial. This feature is helpful when you are setting margins or tabs.
    - How can I choose a different content language?
      By choosing a content language for Notes applications, you can take advantage of other languages served up by an IBM® Domino® or HTTP server. For applications whose design supports multiple languages, you add the supported content language using this option.
    - How can I choose a different interface language for Notes?
      Use the Interface Language field in Regional Settings Preferences to choose an interface language for IBM Notes.
    - How can I sort in a different language?
      Change the language you sort in.
    - How can I use an alternate name?
      An alternate name is helpful when you want to use your native language and character set to type, display, and look up names. For example, you can type a name in a native language and character set when sending mail. Your primary name is recognizable to an international audience; an alternate name is recognizable in your native language.
    - How can I change the way dates appear in the calendar picker or pop-up calendar?
      You can change the way dates in the calendar picker or pop-up calendar appear. This is useful if the language you're using works right to left.
    - How can I change the day the calendar view, date picker, or pop-up calendar starts on?
      You can change the day that the week starts on separately for the calendar view, the date picker, and the pop-up calendar. The default start of the week is Monday for the calendar view and date picker, and Sunday for the pop-up calendar.
  - Preferences - Quick reference
    This quick reference card is a list of instructions for common tasks and shortcuts for Notes preferences, which you can print and keep at your desk for easy reference.
  - Further customizing your Notes client
    The topics in this section are intended for a more advanced Notes user.
- Accessibility features for Notes®
  Accessibility features help users who have a physical disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology products.
- Using the Discover page
  IBM® Notes® opens to the Discover page by default, unless you set up Notes to open to an application, such as Mail or Calendar, or to a customized home page. The default Discover page is a central location from which you can find targeted Notes client information more quickly and easily, including new features in the release, introductory material for new users, and helpful hints and tips. There is also a Quick Links tab that allows you to launch your workspace, Mail, Calendar, and other Notes applications you have recently used, in addition to providing links to other resources, such as the Notes and Domino wiki.
- Using the Notes workspace
  The IBM® Notes® workspace, the legacy user interface for Notes, displays pages containing Notes application icons.
- Using bookmarks - linking to documents and applications
  Bookmarks are links that point to IBM® Notes® applications, views, documents, or Internet elements, such as Web pages and news groups. Bookmark folders organize your bookmarks. They can contain bookmarks or more folders.
- Notes views and folders
  Views display specific documents with similar criteria. For example, your Mail has an All Documents view that displays every document contained in the mail application, and a Sent view that displays only documents that you sent.
- Printing
  You print a single document or multiple documents at the same time. You can also print views (lists of documents in an IBM® Notes® application) and the framesets found in both Notes and the Web.

How can I change how Notes translates characters?

When you import or export files, you can specify the character translation file IBM® Notes® uses to translate characters, such as international currency symbols, in the files.

Procedure

Click File > Preferences.

Notes Basic client users: Click File > Preferences > User Preferences.

Macintosh OS X users: Click Notes > Preferences.
Click Regional Settings (Notes Basic client users: click International).
Click the Change button for Import/Export characters.
Select a character set and click OK.