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Community articleWhat's New in Lotus Notes by release
Added by IBM contributorAmy Smith | Edited by IBM contributorJulia Brown on May 21, 2012 | Version 17
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Notes 8.5.3
  • Choose a different signature more easily, with a new Signature button in the action bar on emails.
  • Pick any color or boldness to distinguish between read and unread emails in your inbox and other mail folders.
  • If you want, when new mail arrives, a small window can slide into the bottom right corner of your screen with a preview of the new email or emails, including the subject, and sender.
  • Set a new preference to keep a placeholder on your calendar for countered meetings, until the new time has been accepted by the meeting owner.
  • If you add or remove invitees from a meeting, set a preference to always update that information for all meeting participants.
  • Hide recent contacts instead of deleting them, to prevent them from being added back into recent contacts later.
What's New in Lotus Notes 8.5.3?
Notes 8.5.2
  • You can set a default font for emails you write.
  • When setting your signature, choose between rich text, plain text, or and html or image file.
  • If you have Connections, you can open Connections applications from the Open list.
  • If the server fails while you're working, it'll automatically switch to a new one without interrupting you.
  • Set a new preference to automatically close an email after replying to or forwarding it.
  • You can add rooms & resources to your calendar to view room availability and reserve rooms and resources, if your organization uses a rooms and resources application.
  • A new calendar view lets you see calendar entries organized by category.
  • You can mark a contact or group private, so if you have given someone access to your mail, calendar, and contacts, they cannot see that contact or group.
What's New in Notes 8.5, 8.5.1, and 8.5.2
Notes 8.5.1
  • Use new toolbar icons to add a link, change text color, highlight text, or make text underlined.
  • Perform meeting actions, such as Accept and Decline, from the preview pane in Mail, Calendar, and To Do.
  • Do things faster with drag & drop:
    • Drag email to the main or sidebar calendar to create a calendar entry
    • Drag calendar entries to a new date in the main or sidebar calendar to reschedule or counter
    • Drag documents or shortcuts from your operating system Desktop or file folder to the Open list or a Bookmark folder. For example, drag a Symphony™ document to a Bookmark folder, or drag a Notepad shortcut to the Open list.
  • You can save your web meeting information, to use in meeting invitations.
What's New in Notes 8.5, 8.5.1, and 8.5.2
Notes 8.5
  • Search Notes from a convenient new search bar in the Notes toolbar.
  • Right-click an email or document to mark it read or unread.
  • Import contacts from another source into Notes, or export your Notes contacts
  • Typeahead includes all contacts in your Notes Contacts.
  • See and use other calendars on your Notes calendar. You can add other Notes users' calendars, activities, private or public Google calendars, iCalendar feeds, or Notes applications' calendar (such as a Notes TeamRoom's calendar)
  • Forward your contacts to others, using the Forward as vCard button in Contacts.
  • In Contacts, add tabs for Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, or Cyrillic characters.
  • Personal Journal is renamed to "Notebook" and has a new look.
What's New in Notes 8.5, 8.5.1, and 8.5.2
Notes 8.0.1
What's new in Lotus Notes 8 and 8.0.1
Notes 8
  • Databases are now called "applications."
  • All applications can be opened from a new Open button in the top left of the screen.
  • Choose the location of the preview pane: below message list or next to it.

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33Jun 14, 2012, 5:27:47 PMJennifer Heins  IBM contributor
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31May 22, 2012, 10:57:21 AMJulia Brown  IBM contributor
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