GETTING STARTED

Getting Help
You can get two types of Help in Notes:
Context-sensitive Help is available in most areas of Notes including dialog boxes and properties boxes. In this release of Notes, many parts of your mail, Personal Address Book, and bookmarks (for example, many tabs in dialog boxes and forms) include improved context-sensitive help. To see it, press F1 (Macintosh users, Command-?), choose Help - Context Help, or click the question mark button at the top right corner of any dialog box or properties box.

Help key on a Windows-based PC keyboard

Help icon in dialog 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 Notes products (for example, Help for IBM Lotus Domino Designer® 6 while in Notes) by using the Actions menu in the Help window.

Help menu

Getting Help when there is no Help

If you don't have Help locally, and you choose a Help command, 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 choose Help - Help Topics or Help - Context Help, and see a message saying "Help files are not available," ask your organization's Domino administrator to add the Help databases to your mail server.

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