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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.
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.
Keyboard shortcuts
You can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate through and perform tasks in 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.
- 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.
- 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.
  - Keyboard shortcuts
    You can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate through and perform tasks in IBM® Notes®.
    - General keyboard shortcuts
      You can use different keyboard shortcuts to navigate through IBM® Notes®. Note that Ctrl+Shift+L is a keyboard shortcut that displays a list of other available, useful shortcuts.
    - Keyboard shortcuts for applications
      Keyboard shortcuts help users who have a physical disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use applications successfully.
    - Keyboard shortcuts for properties boxes
      You can use a number of keyboard shortcuts when using properties boxes.
    - Keyboard shortcuts to select and move text in a document
      You can use keyboard shortcuts when you are creating or editing a mail message or a document.
    - Keyboard shortcuts to move the cursor in a document
      You can use different keyboard shortcuts to move the cursor when you are creating or editing a mail message or a document.
    - Keyboard shortcuts to change text and paragraph properties in a document
      You can use different keyboard shortcuts when you are creating or editing a mail message or a document.
    - Keyboard shortcuts for the Macintosh
      You can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate through and perform tasks in IBM® Notes®.
    - Using Unicode to add special characters to documents
      You can create or read documents that contain special characters that aren't found on your default keyboard, such as an ae dipthong (Æ), a pound sign (£), or a plus/minus sign (+/-).
    - Special characters listed by extended compose sequence
      A compose sequence is a string of keystrokes that produces a special character. You can use a compose sequence or an extended compose sequence to add a special character to a document.
- 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, in addition to providing links to other resources, such as the Notes and Domino wiki.
- 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.

Keyboard shortcuts

You can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate through and perform tasks in IBM® Notes®.

If you are using a screen reader, you may want to maximize your window so the keyboard shortcut tables in the following topics are completely expanded and accessible.

Note: The following keyboard shortcuts are based on US standard keyboards.

Click any of the following links for a table of shortcuts:

Extended accelerators

Notes® uses extended accelerators for the Open button, sidebar, and action buttons. Press and hold down the Alt key to use the extended accelerators.

If extended accelerators are disabled, click File > Preferences (Macintosh OS X users: Click Notes > Preferences), click Basic Notes Client Configuration, and then select Show extended accelerators under Additional options.

Notes menus

A way to find keyboard shortcuts is to refer to the menus in Notes®. Most keyboard shortcuts are displayed with the menu items, or the letter of the keyboard shortcut is underlined.