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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.
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.

What's new in HCL Notes 14.5
Learn about the many new features and enhancements in HCL Notes 14.5.
About HCL Notes
The following topics provide information about HCL Notes.
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.
    - 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 HCL 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 HCL 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 HCL 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 HCL 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.
Using the Discover page
HCL 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.
Using the Notes workspace
The HCL Notes® workspace, the legacy user interface for Notes, displays pages containing Notes application icons.
Using bookmarks
Bookmarks are links that point to HCL 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 HCL Notes® application) and the framesets found in both Notes and the Web.
Getting Started - Advanced
The topics in this section have been written for more advanced Notes users.
Tasks
The following topics provide details for common tasks in HCL Notes.
Mail
You can send and answer email, create signatures, and customize the look of your Inbox. You can also do things, like cancel an email sent by mistake or set up out of office notifications.
Calendar
You can schedule meetings, manage your schedule, add other calendars, and more.
To Do
You can keep track of what you need to do, and assign tasks to others.
Contacts
You can save information about people, such as title, addresses, birthdays, and more. You can also do things such as create groups to use as mailing lists, or print contacts as labels.
Notes applications
An HCL Notes® application contains information about a particular area of interest, such as the forms and policy documents for a department, or it might contain documents of a similar type, such as email messages. In addition, some companies create "discussion applications," where employees can post responses to particular topics.
Blogs (web logs)
You can create your own personal Web logs (blogs) using the Notes® blog template (dominoblog.ntf). After you create a blog application, you can then open it as you would any other Notes® application (NSF) file. From your blog application, you can create and manage content and blog discussions.
Locations and accounts
This topic describes connections to servers, ways to connect to servers, and things you should know before setting up a server connection.
Automating tasks using simple agents
You can program Notes® to perform tasks automatically using agents (also known as macros). Agents can help you perform repetitive tasks, such as managing documents and sending memos.
Sharing information with other applications
You can share files and graphics between HCL Notes® and other applications using a number of different techniques.
Notes roaming user
As a Notes® roaming user, you can log in to and use Notes from any computer in your organization on which Notes is installed, and use your personal data while doing so. Your personal data includes many of your Notes preferences and personal information such as your contacts, bookmarks, notebook, feeds subscriptions, and optionally your Notes workspace. Notes widgets also participate in roaming.
Replication
You can create an offline (local) duplicate of any HCL Notes® application you use. Such a duplicate is called a replica.
Search
You can use search to find documents, text in a document, applications, and people. You can also set search preferences for type of search query syntax and scope of search.
Securing your data
HCL Notes® security enables you to protect your workspace and data at all times, so only you and the people you designate have access to your data.
Widgets and Live Text
Widgets and Live Text enables end users to see and act on Live Text in a document, including mail, using widgets (.XML files) created for their use. Power users and administrators can create and edit widgets, and deploy them to users to engage a Notes® form, view, XPage, document or Composite Application, or third party services such as Web page, feed, or Google Gadget™, or automatically install or update a client plug-in for specific Notes users.
Error messages
Notices

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.