| (By Richard Echeandia, Senior Technical Editor)
Anytime you're in Notes, you can immediately create a new mail message by pressing Ctrl-M (that's holding down the control key and continuing to hold it down while pressing the M key). That's it! You'll immediately be in a new, blank mail memo from your Notes mail file.
This tip works even if you're already in another Notes database. If the database that you want to open is your mail file though, there's a better way.
If you're using Lotus Notes under Windows 95, 98, or NT, you'll need to find the shortcut you use to launch Notes. Go into the Properties for the shortcut and click on the Shortcut tab. Add the word Mail to the end of the line after the Notes executable, like so:
CHANGE FROM:
C:\Notes\Notes.exe
CHANGE TO:
C:\Notes\Notes.exe Mail |
Click on the OK button and you're done. From now on, whenever you start Notes, it will open your mail file to the last view that you were using. Why is this better than specifying your mail file as a startup database? If you switch between multiple locations, each location could have its own mail file. This method will use the mail file for whatever location you selected when you started Notes.
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