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Welcome to IBM Notes
Welcome to the latest release of IBM® Notes®. Notes is a powerful, multifaceted software for Microsoft® Windows®, Macintosh, and Linux® computers that gives you instant access to all the information that is important to you. You can use Notes to send and receive email and Internet mail, schedule appointments, browse the Web, and use powerful social and business applications in your daily work.
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 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.

Welcome to IBM Notes
Welcome to the latest release of IBM® Notes®. Notes is a powerful, multifaceted software for Microsoft® Windows®, Macintosh, and Linux® computers that gives you instant access to all the information that is important to you. You can use Notes to send and receive email and Internet mail, schedule appointments, browse the Web, and use powerful social and business applications in your daily work.
- What's New in IBM® Notes® 9.0.1 Social Edition?
  The following table lists features new to the IBM® Notes® 9.0.1 code stream, and tells you how to get started using those features.
- 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 IBM® Notes®.
- 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.
  - Using the embedded browser
    The embedded browser lets you open and navigate Web pages directly from within IBM® Notes®. The Address bar keeps a history of Web addresses that you type.
  - 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 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.
- 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.
- Advanced Getting Started topics
  The topics in this section have been written for more advanced Notes users.
- License information
- Copyrights
- Trademarks

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.

About this task

An alternate name is a fully authenticated name, unlike an alias which is not fully authenticated.

Choosing an alternate name language will let you display alternate names throughout IBM® Notes®. For example, if you select Japanese, Spanish, and Chinese (Simplified) as alternate name languages, you will then be able to display alternate names in those languages in Notes® on your computer.

To use alternate names, you must first install a font capable of displaying the text. Unicode fonts provide support for many types of script within a single font. For information about installing Unicode fonts, see Using Unicode to add special characters to documents.

Note: Before you can use an alternate for your name, your administrator must register and certify one for you. Your primary name and alternate name must be added to your user ID. You can have only one alternate name.

To specify an alternate name language

Procedure

Click File > Preferences.

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

Macintosh OS X users: Click Notes > Preferences.
Click Basic Notes Client Configuration (Notes Basic client users: click Basics.
Click Default Fonts.
Specify your multilingual or Unicode font as the Default Sans Serif and the Default Multilingual font and then click OK.
Click Regional Settings (Notes Basic client users: click International.
Click the Change button for Alternate name language.
Select the alternate name language from the Available languages column, then click Add to move the language to the Alternate name languages column and click OK.
Click Locations (Notes Basic client users: click File > Preferences > Location Preferences).
Click Edit.
For the Default display name option, select Alternate names and click OK.
Click OK to close the Preferences dialog box.