WORKING WITH NOTES DOCUMENTS

Dragging and dropping Documents and applications
You can drag and drop items within IBM® Lotus® Notes®, between Notes and your operating system, and between Notes applications. When you drag and drop a file, you might be either creating a copy of the file or moving it from one place to another. For example, when you drag a meeting invitation from one day to another, you are moving the meeting to a different day, which reschedules the meeting.

To drag and drop an item, left-click the item and hold down the mouse button, drag it, then release the mouse button.

Tip If you are using Notes with Microsoft® Windows®, you can also right-click an item from the Windows desktop or from a Windows folder and select to either copy the item or embed the item as an OLE object (if that application is installed).
TaskProcedure
Create an attachment in a document from a file in your operating system
  1. Create a new document, or put an existing open document in edit mode.
  2. From the operating system's desktop or file system, select a file, and drag the file to the open document.
Copy a document to your operating systemSelect a document's window tab or a document from an application view, and drag the document to the operating system's desktop or file system.

Note Dragging window tabs is not supported on Macintosh OS X.

Copy an attachment from a Notes document to the operating system or into an application (such as Lotus® 1-2-3)From a document, select an attachment and drag the attachment to the operating system's desktop, file system, or an application.
Copy a URL address from an Internet browser into a document
  1. Open a document in edit mode.
  2. From an Internet browser, drag the URL bookmark icon that displays in the address bar to the desired location in the open document.
Create an OLE object in a document
  1. Open a document in edit mode.
  2. From the operating system's desktop or file system, right-click a file and then drag it to the open document.
  3. From the pop-up menu, click "Create Embedded Object here."
Move a folder to another folder or viewFrom the view pane, select a folder and drag it to a new folder.

Note Once you have dragged a folder from the top-level Folders to a lower-level folder, you cannot drag it back to the top level.

Move a document from one folder or view to another folder or viewFrom the view pane, select one or more documents in a folder or view, and then drag them to the desired folder or view.

Go to top

See Also