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Welcome to IBM Notes
Welcome to the latest release of IBM® Notes®. Notes is a powerful, multifaceted software for Microsoft® Windows®, Macintosh, and Linux® computers that gives you instant access to all the information that is important to you. You can use Notes to send and receive email and Internet mail, schedule appointments, browse the Web, and use powerful social and business applications in your daily work.
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®.
Keyboard shortcuts for the Macintosh
You can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate through and perform tasks in IBM® Notes®.
Keyboard shortcuts to change text and paragraph properties in a document (Macintosh)
You can use different Macintosh keyboard shortcuts when you are creating or editing a mail message or a document.

Welcome to IBM Notes
Welcome to the latest release of IBM® Notes®. Notes is a powerful, multifaceted software for Microsoft® Windows®, Macintosh, and Linux® computers that gives you instant access to all the information that is important to you. You can use Notes to send and receive email and Internet mail, schedule appointments, browse the Web, and use powerful social and business applications in your daily work.
- What's New in IBM® Notes® 9.0.1 Social Edition?
  The following table lists features new to the IBM® Notes® 9.0.1 code stream, and tells you how to get started using those features.
- Getting Help
  You can get help that is specific to many of the tasks you are performing, or you can open complete Help on all areas of 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.
- 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®.
      - Keyboard shortcuts for applications (Macintosh)
        You can use different Macintosh keyboard shortcuts for opening and closing an application, and for using application features including navigating within views, folders, and panes.
      - Keyboard shortcuts to select and move text in a document (Macintosh)
        You can use Macintosh keyboard shortcuts when you are creating or editing a mail message or a document.
      - Keyboard shortcuts to move the cursor in a document (Macintosh)
        You can use different Macintosh 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 (Macintosh)
        You can use different Macintosh keyboard shortcuts when you are creating or editing a mail message or a document.
    - 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.
- 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.
- Advanced Getting Started topics
  The topics in this section have been written for more advanced Notes users.
- License information
- Copyrights
- Trademarks

Keyboard shortcuts to change text and paragraph properties in a document (Macintosh)

You can use different Macintosh keyboard shortcuts when you are creating or editing a mail message or a document.

You must be in edit mode to use the following shortcuts. Press Command+E to put your document in edit mode.

Table 1. Text and paragraph shortcuts
Shortcut	Description
Command+B	Bold selected text
Command+E	Put document in read mode
Command+F	Find text and replace
Command+G	Find next word when Find text and replace starts
Command+I	Italicize selected text
Command+J	Format paragraphs (alignment, spacing, etc.)
Command+K	Format text (font, size, color, etc.)
Command+R	Show or hide ruler
Command+T	Change text style to default (color changes only if the text style is from a Paragraph Style)
Command+U	Underline selected text
F1	Undo last action
F7	Indent first line in paragraph
F8	Indent entire paragraph
F9	Refresh current document (in edit mode), view, or workspace
F11	Cycle through paragraph styles (defined in the Paragraph Styles tab in Text Properties)
Shift+Command+L	Insert page break
Shift+F7	Outdent first line in paragraph
Shift+F8	Outdent entire paragraph