How do I change regional settings, such as timezones, text direction, and days in a work week?
You can set regional options to ensure that your mail and calendar display suits your preferences.
Choose a regional profile for Notes
About this task
Choose a regional profile to automatically set content language, sorting language, alternate name language, and import/export characters .
Procedure
- Click File > Preferences. (Basic Notes client users: Click File > Preferences > User Preferences > International; Macintosh OS X users: Click Notes® > Preferences.)
- Click Regional Settings.
- Click a region or country language from the Regional profile list.
Change your time zone
Procedure
- Click Calendar and Tasks section. , and then click the
- Click Scheduling.
- Select the appropriate time zone from the Time zone list. The default is Local time.
Show an additional time zone
Procedure
Change the days in a work week
Procedure
Change the first day shown in your calendar, date picker, or pop-up calendar
You can change the day that the week starts on separately for the calendar view, the date picker, and the pop-up calendar. The default start of the week is Monday for the calendar view and date picker, and Sunday for the pop-up calendar.
About this task
The date picker appears in the left pane of the Calendar view; it may also appear embedded in other applications. The pop-up calendar appears in dialog boxes.
To change the start day in calendar view, date picker, or pop-up calendar, complete the following steps:
Procedure
Change the direction of the date picker and popup calendar
You can change the way dates in the calendar picker or pop-up calendar appear. This is useful if the language you're using works right to left.
About this task
The date picker appears in the left pane of the IBM® Notes Calendar view in your Mail; it may also appear embedded in other applications. The pop-up calendar appears in dialog boxes.
To change the way the dates appear in the calendar picker or pop-up calendar, complete the following steps:
Procedure
Change text direction and cursor behavior for bi-directional languages
If you are using a bi-directional language such as Arabic or Hebrew, you can set the IBM Notes menus and text to read in the direction appropriate for the language, and specify cursor movement appropriate to the language.
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Procedure
Set reading order for paragraphs in a document
About this task
If bi-directional text is enabled in Notes, you can set the reading order for paragraphs in a document.
Procedure
- Put the document in Edit mode.
- Select the text that you want to specify a reading order for.
- Click Text > Text Properties.
- Click the Paragraph Alignment tab.
- Click Left-to-Right or Right-to-Left next to Reading order.
Show a secondary calendar alongside the primary calendar
Within the Calendar view, you have the option to display two calendars - a Primary calendar and a Secondary calendar. The Secondary calendar is a non-Gregorian calendar. The available selections for the Secondary calendar are Hijri, Jewish, or Japanese six day.