You can set your favourite font as your default font when composing the mail in a new memo instead of changing it everytime you compose and send a mail.

Follow the steps below to set a font as default for a new memo.

1. Log into your Lotus Notes account, go to File- Preferences - Edit Preferences.
2. In the Basics view, Display Options section, click Default Fonts tab.
3. You will get a Pop-Up window to choose fonts for various sections. Select the fonts accordingly and Click OK.
4. The change will take effect when Lotus Notes is restarted the next time.
   

We can enable or disable saving a copy of the mail sent in Sent Folder by adjusting the user preferences. By default a mail sent using Lotus Notes will be saved in the Sent Folder, however based on individual requirements we can disable and later enable the facility as required.

Follow the steps below to adjust the settings.

1. Log into your Lotus Notes account and go to File - Preferences - User Preferences
2. Open the Mail view.
3. In the Sending section, Choose Always keep a copy in the drop down menu named Save mail that you send to  have a copy in the Sent Folder always.
4. If you dont want to save a copy, choose Dont keep a copy in the menu. Alternatively you can make Notes prompt whether to save a copy or not everytime a mail is sent by selecting Always prompt.
5. Click OK to save the settings.

You can have your Lotus Notes mail box locked if you have left it unused for a specific preset time. This will ensure that your mails are safe and not opened by others even if you are away from your desk for a long time.

To have this feature enabled follow the steps below.

1. Log into your Lotus Notes account and go to File - Preferences - User Preferences.
2. In the Basics view, at the bottom of the view an option to logout and lock Lotus Notes if unused for the specific time is available. Enable it.
3. There is another box to set the duration after which Notes is to be locked if unused. Select the duration according to your requirement.
4. Save your preferences and you will find that Notes will be locked after the preset time, if left unused.

Lotus Notes has introduced the welcome page from version Notes 6 and above. When you log into your Lotus Notes account in these versions, the first page that loads up is not the Workspace as it used to be in the earlier versions. Now you get a welcome page, which can be customized to look the way you want it.

However the workspace is still available as it is best suited for those who use other applications. The default Notes welcome page is simple and has options to open the Mailbox, Calendar and the To Do List and the Contacts. There are several other built in welcome page options that you can choose. To explore and select one of them follow the simple steps below.

• Open your Lotus Notes Account.
• You will get the default welcome page, the first line will contain a text “Click here for Welcome Page options” followed by a black arrow pointing downwards. Click on this arrow.
• You will find a Dropdown menu called “Current Welcome Page selection” listing all the options available.
• Click any one of them to select that as your default Lotus Notes Welcome Page.

Creating a Customized Welcome Page
It is also possible to create a customized welcome page of your choice. Follow the below steps to create your own welcome page.

• Open the Lotus Notes account and click the black arrow to edit the welcome page options.
• Click on the tab “Create a welcome page”
• Notes will prompt you to select a name for the page you create. Enter a name and click next.
• Notes will prompt you to choose whether you want to use frames or a personal page. Frames are rectangular boxes that can be used to display the content you want. The areas of these frames can be altered as per your needs by pushing dragging the margins.
• The Personal page gives multiple layouts that you can choose from and options to add pictures, applets and links. You can also choose the background color of your choice for the layout.
• After selecting the layout you want click finish to instantly get the chosen layout as the welcome page.

New to Lotus Notes? Or have you recently migrated to Notes?

Set Lotus Notes as your default mail client so that whenever you click on any hyperlink (from any newsletter or a web page or in an email that you have recieved) which is intended to send out a mail opens up a new memo in Lotus Notes.

To make Lotus Notes mail client your default Mail Client, follow the steps below.

1. Log into your Notes account and go to File option in the top menu.
2. Choose Preferences and select User Preferences
3. In the window that is opening up, click on Mail and choose Internet.
4. You will find a section called Default Mail account in which the option to choose Lotus Notes as your default mail client is available. Enable it.
5. You will also have another option to check whether Lotus Notes is your default mail client every time you start your system. Even if you accidently change the settings, Notes will prompt you when you start the system the next time and helps you ensure that Notes is configured as your default mail client .
6. Click OK to close the window and restart your system.
7. You will be prompted whether to change Notes as your default mail client. Click yes to it.

This ensures that all mail links are getting opened as a new memo in Lotus Notes.

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Out of Office messaage is set to let those who send you mails know that you are not in office and when you are expected to be back.

This can be configured in Lotus Notes client and an automated reply will be sent to those who mail you informing them about the duration of your absence. You can also choose to write a message yourself that is to be sent out. There are also options to avoid sending these messages to a few selected individuals or to a group by creating exceptions.

To activate this feature, follow the steps below.

1. Click Actions tab in the top menu and go to Tools
2. Select Out of Office from the options list.
3. In the pop up window, you can fill the date when you will leave and return.
4. There is a default message that you see in the Out of Office Message tab or you can choose to write your own message by clicking Special Message.
5. If you dont want these mails to be sent to any particular individual or to a group, click on the Exceptions tab and choose the corresponding options.
6. Click Enable to activate the feature.

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While opening the hyperlinks in your mail from your Lotus Notes inbox, you most often find it opening in a default Notes browser. This browser may not have all the options that are present in a conventional browser. To overcome this you can change the browser settings in your Notes client to open the links in any browser of your choice. To change the configuration, do the following simple steps:

1. Open File menu in the top menu options, go to Preferences and Location Preferences.
2. Click on the Internet Browser tab.
3. Open the dropdown menu in Internet browser and choose the browser that you want.
4. If not available, choose as Other and select it using the field below by giving the path of the browser.
5. Click Save & Close tab in the top action bar.

You should be able to open the links in the browser that you have chosen after these settings are given.

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