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Accessibility

You can designate row and column headers in tables so that screen-reader applications can detect them.

Calendar

New features and enhancements added to Calendar and Scheduling let you:

• Easily manage your calendar and To Do entries with a Calendar Cleanup action
• Set Autoprocessing to accept a meeting invitation even if there is a conflict
• When using Respond with Comments, send a link as part of Comments, or Cancel without sending the comments
• Switch to the Follow Up Miniview from the Calendar Miniview, and expand and collapse the Calendar Miniview
• If you are managing someone else's calendar and mail, flag their mail messages for follow-up, as well as be prompted about where forwarded mail is saved
• The All Calendar Entries view (formerly the Meetings view) has more options and is easier to use
• Display only certain kinds of entries in your Calendar
• Specify a site and a list or rooms and resources that you want to use for scheduling meetings
• View owner restrictions when specifying a room or resource for a meeting
• Include links in your responses to Calendar notices

A new menu option lets you quickly close all windows

Notes now prompts you when you attempt to exit -- you can select not to be prompted in future, or disable prompting using Preferences

Action bar commands in views are now available in right-click menus

You can save the state of the window tabs so they will be there the next time you start Notes.

Instant messaging

If your company has an IBM Lotus Sametime(R) server, new features and enhancements in Notes let you:

• See who is online and start chats from Calendar, To Dos, the Personal Address Book, Teamrooms, Discussions, and Room and Resource Reservations
• Set preferences for what displays in the Instant Messaging Contact List, and for how you are alerted when an instant message or meeting invitation arrives
• Include Notes document links, view links, and database links in chats
• Save chat transcripts to Mail or to a file
• Use the Notes Instant Messaging Contact List to chat even when Notes is busy

• Use screen sharing, whiteboard, audio, and video during Notes instant meetings
• When scheduling an online meeting, specify the meeting password and restrict attendance to the meeting invitees from within Calendar

New features and enhancements to Mail and Address Book let you:

• Flag messages for follow-up more quickly, either with the Quick Follow Up feature or by dragging and dropping to the Follow Up view, as well as using the right-mouse menu to access Follow Up actions
• Use blacklists to filter mail
• Exercise greater control over mail rule execution by stopping processing
• See Mail Threads while you read a message
• Add a subject to a memo after you have clicked Send
• Sort by Subject in the Inbox and other Mail views
• From Microsoft(R) Office XP, send Notes mail, show name details, or invite the person to a meeting using Microsoft's Smart Tags feature. Smart Tags work by recognizing certain types of text (for example, person names) and then offering related functions and commands.
• Find which folder you stored a document in
• Automatically save in-progress documents to a local database so that you don't lose work
• It is easier to archive messages to free up space
• Mark messages to show whether your name is in the "To" or "cc" fields
• See in the status bar whether e-mail you receive is digitally signed, encrypted, or both
• Prevent the expansion of names in a personal group when sending a message

• Access Notes applications while using IBM Workplace Managed Client(TM), without opening Notes.
• Attach documents from, and save attachments to, the IBM Workplace(TM) document library
• Set Notes so that it won't prompt for a password when being used inside the Workplace Managed Client
• If your company has a Lotus Sametime server, you can choose to use instant messaging features native to Notes when using Notes inside the Workplace Managed Client

The "My Work" Welcome page (formerly called the Notes Workplace) has been added to the Welcome Page Wizard, so you can create multiple "My Work" Welcome pages.

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