Lotus Organizer 97 Edition Release Notes - June 1996
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Welcome to Lotus Organizer 97, the award-winning stand-alone personal information manager (PIM). Organizer 97 provides printed documentation and online Help that gives you procedures and overviews for every Organizer feature, menu item, and task. These release notes contain information that became available after the documentation was completed.

Organizer 97 release notes include the following sections:

1. What's New in Organizer 97
2. Installation 
3. Troubleshooting Tips
 
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1. What's New in Organizer 97
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Organizer 97 is a native 32-bit application that exploits Windows 95 functionality. It offers a Windows 95 look and feel, with features such as common and tabbed dialog boxes, long filenames, and registry support. 

Organizer 97 also includes the following PIM enhancements:

*** A new daily Calendar view that lets you graphically display and block off time for your appointments.
 
*** Address labels and envelopes print in international address formats based on the country field in address records.

*** Support for TAPI (Telephony Application Programming Interface) dialing, which means more streamlined automatic dialing capabilities in both the Calls and Address sections.

*** Calls that roll over each day until you mark them completed so you won't forget calls you plan to make.

*** Rich text formatting, such as bold, italic, underlining, font size and type, and color in the Notepad section.

*** Support for linking or embedding OLE objects, such as spreadsheets, metafiles, word processing documents, presentations, and (if you have a World Wide Web browser such as Netscape) Web sites and home pages in your Notepad pages.

*** Animated cursors and sound effects to make Organizer fun to use.

*** An Organizer Tour accessible from Help that provides an overview of the product.

*** Easy conversion from Organizer 1.x and Organizer 2.x files to Organizer 97 files with an .OR3 extension.

*** SmartIcons to access Lotus Support Web pages.

*** An updated Almanac file (called ALMANAC.OR3) that includes reference information, such as holidays, useful 800 telephone numbers, time management tips, and so on.

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2. Installation
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Organizer 97 is optimized to run under Windows 95. The booklet Exploring Organizer explains how to install Organizer 97 from diskettes. To install Organizer from CD-ROM, complete the following steps:

1. Start Windows 95 and choose Start Run.
2. Type D:\INSTALL (or replace D: with the CD-ROM drive letter).
3. Click OK. 

The Organizer 97 CD version also includes the printed documentation in an online format. This online documentation includes Exploring Organizer and the Print Layout Guide which you can display using the included Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you want to install the Organizer online documentation, complete the following steps:

1. Start Windows 95 and choose Start Run.
2. Type D:\ACROREAD\INSTALL (or replace D: with the CD-ROM drive letter).
3. Click OK.

To remove any Organizer 97 options (for example, paper types) that you install, first uninstall Organizer (using Add/Remove Programs in the Windows 95 Control Panel). Then re-install Organizer.

NOTE: If you participated in the Organizer Beta program, make sure you compact any files you created with the Beta software.

File Server Installation and the Network Administrator's Guide

If you experience any problem opening the Network Administrator's Guide during a file server install, you can still read the file. To read the file, insert Organizer Disk 1 in your diskette drive and open the READNET.WRI file.

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3. Troubleshooting Tips
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If you encounter any of the scenarios below, you can use the accompanying solutions.

GENERAL

Scenario: You chose Hide all SmartIcons and want to re-display them.
Solution: Right-click inside the Organizer binder and choose Show SmartIcons.

Scenario: An error message notifies you that you've run out of resources if you're running Lotus Notes with Organizer 97 and another program.
Solution: Close the other program.

ADDRESS

Scenario: Organizer 97 removes the leading zeros when you import information from a text (.TXT) file or a Comma Separated Values (.CSV) file into the Address section. As a result, any zip codes that begin with a zero lose the leading zero.
Solution: Add a space before the leading zero.

ALMANAC

Tip: There is no need to convert the previous Organizer ALMANAC.OR2 file to use with Organizer 97. Instead, you can use the enhanced ALMANAC.OR3 file. If you do choose to convert the previous ALMANAC, be sure to rename the file prior to converting it to avoid overwriting the new ALMANAC.OR3.

BACKUP FILE

Scenario: Organizer 97 displays a blank binder when you try to open a file from the Backup directory.
Solution: Copy the file to a different location or turn off the Create backup when opened option under File - User Setup - Organizer Preferences.

COMPACT

Tip: For improved file security, when you compact a file that is password-protected, you must first enter the password when prompted. You may enter the Owner, Assistant, or Reader password.

NOTEPAD

Scenario: Left mouse clicking an OLE object doesn't enable its top-level context-sensitive menu.
Solution: Right mouse click the object, and the object's top-level menu is available.

Scenario: You want to use the horizontal scroll bar to view your OLE object.
Solution: Choose Text - Word Wrap to enable the scroll bar for viewing large OLE objects.

Scenario: You updated an external file, but after seeing the link update indicator in Organizer for that OLE link, the updates aren't visible in the Notepad page.
Solution: Click the page containing the link in order to see the updates. 

Scenario: You can't place the cursor above or below an OLE object on a Notepad page.
Solution: Press CTRL+HOME or CTRL+END and then press ENTER.

Scenario: When you finish editing a Bitmap Image or PaintBrush Picture object, you press ESC to exit editing, and you get unpredictable results.
Solution: To exit in-place editing of a Bitmap Image or PaintBrush Picture object, do not use ESC, but use any of the following methods:
	Click outside of the object in the Notepad page
	Click in the title of the Notepad page
	Choose Section-Turn To and select an Organizer section
	Click an Organizer tab

Scenario: You encounter problems when creating Netscape objects when Netscape isn't already running or when you minimize Organizer while creating a Netscape object.
Solution: Start Netscape prior to creating your object and keep Organizer maximized.

PRINTING

Scenario: When printing a monthly calendar in landscape mode on certain printers (including the Canon BJC600), you lose characters from the right edge of the page.
Solution: Try adjusting the margins to accommodate your printer's printable area.

Tip: You will probably get better output if you print with the Windows 95 Hewlett Packard PostScript drivers than with the PCL5 drivers for the same printer.

SMARTSUITE 96 AND SMARTCENTER USERS

If you're upgrading to Organizer 97 and are using SmartSuite 96 and SmartCenter, note the following:

*** The SmartCenter 96 Calendar and Addresses drawers only support .OR2 files. When the next version of SmartSuite is available, SmartCenter will support .OR3 files.

*** In the SmartCenter's SmartSuite drawer, the shortcut icon for Organizer will point to the Organizer Release 2 program file. To change the shortcut so that it points to the Organizer 97 program file, complete the following steps:

1. Right-click the shortcut icon and choose Properties.
2. Click the Shortcut tab.
3. For Target, enter C:\LOTUS\ORGANIZE\ORG32.EXE.
4. Click OK.

Uninstalling Organizer 97 when you use SmartSuite 96 Applications

If you uninstall Organizer 97 and are using SmartSuite 96 applications, you will need to copy previous versions of some files from the Organizer disk to your Lotus components directory. Follow the steps below to copy the files from the Organizer disk to your system:

1.  Insert Organizer Disk 1 or the Organizer CD in your disk drive. 
2.  From the DOS prompt, type:

	COPY  A:\LSC96.EXE   C:\LOTUS\COMPNENT 

     Use the drive letter of your disk drive for A: and the drive letter and directory of 
     your Lotus component directory for C:\LOTUS (if you installed in other than the 
     default directory).

3.  To extract the files to your directory, type:

	C:
	CD\LOTUS\COMPNENT
	LSC96

       At each prompt press Y and ENTER.
    
TEAMMAIL USERS

Scenario: In Organizer, you click the Mail icon in Toolbox. Notes starts, and the mail file is displayed in a reduced format.
Solution: Click to minimize the mail file, then click to maximize it.
