IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide

Window tabs

When we open an application in Windows, we will see it in the taskbar at the bottom of our computer screen (unless we have changed that option). When we open our e-mail or a message in Lotus Notes, a window tab appears for each opened item at the top, just under our menu options.

We can choose how we would like our window tabs to appear in Lotus Notes; these choices can be selected under File | Preferences | Window and Themes. The available choices are:

• Open each document in its own window: This option ensures that these windows appear in the taskbar of Windows—same behavior as Microsoft Outlook.
• Open each document in its own tab: This is the default setting in Lotus Notes.
• Group documents from each application in a tab: This is a great ...