IBM Workplace Managed Client users: If your company uses IBM Workplace Collaboration Services for instant messaging, features may differ from the IBM Lotus Sametime instant messaging features described here. For information on instant messaging with Workplace Collaboration Services, see the Instant Contacts section of IBM Workplace Managed Client Help.

Lotus Notes can notify you when new chat messages or instant meeting invitations. This feature is useful because you might not notice incoming instant messages if you have several active windows on your screen or if you are not looking at your computer.

Notes can notify you in three ways:

• Placing new messages in front of all other active windows on your computer screen
• Blinking (flashing) new message windows
• Playing a sound when new messages arrive

Follow these steps to set alerts:

1. Choose File - Preferences - User Preferences.

2. Click Instant Messaging - Options.

3. Under "When receiving a message or invitation," determine how you want to be alerted when a new invitation or message arrives:

• Select or clear "Bring the message window to the front." If you select this option, any text that you are typing in another program might appear in the new chat window when you receive instant messages. This text is not sent unless you click Send or press Enter.
• Select or clear "Blink the message window."
• Select or clear "Play a sound." You can use the default sound or click Browse to choose another sound.
• Select or clear "Add timestamp to message." Note that this option does not apply to the saved transcript of a message or invitation. Saved transcripts always include timestamps.

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Instant messaging preferences -- General

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