Attachment Editing in Notes 7

March 3 2006 06:00:00 AM Add/Read Comments [3]
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Lotus Notes 6 introduced the ability to right click on an attachment and choose Edit.  This would launch the native application for the attachment type, allowing you to than make updates and save the document back into Notes.   The greatly streamlined the process of: save attachment to your computer, open the native program, open the attachment, makes your changes, save attachment back to your computer, reattach the newly updated file in Notes.   However, it was still unclear to some users what they had to do in order to make sure their changes did not get lost.

Lotus Notes 7 greatly improves the instructions provide to the user as shown below.

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This message saved me this morning when making several changes to a spreadsheet.   Way to go Notes 7!