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Elements of Notes®
The HCL 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 HCL Notes® so that it runs and displays just the way you want it to using Notes preferences.
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.

Elements of Notes®
The HCL 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 HCL 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 HCL 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 HCL 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 HCL Notes®.
- Preferences
  You can customize HCL 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 HCL 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.
  - 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.

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.

Prior to Notes 14.0.0, preferences were organized in a flat list. To improve usability, the following enhancements are provided for Preferences in this release:

Grouping
To group preferences, navigate to File > Preferences > Basic Client Config.
Create a numbering scheme
The scheme you create will apply to subsequent releases.

image displaying preferences in a numbering scheme