IBM® Lotus® Notes® 8 will include a set of office productivity tools that support the Open Document Format (ODF) standard. These productivity tools include word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation capabilities. You will be able to create, manage, edit, and import documents in ODF. The IBM® Lotus® Productivity Tools can also import and edit Microsoft® Office® documents and export those documents to ODF for sharing with ODF-complaint applications and solutions. Overall, the main characteristics that distinguish IBM Lotus Productivity Tools from other client application environments. | IBM Lotus Productivity Tools User Guide This guide gives you an overview of IBM Lotus Productivity Tools features as well as instructions on how to work with all three editors. By default you don t have to configure Lotus Productivity Tools so you can start working with the editors. It is written for non-technical end-users. This Guide has three major sections Section 1 Introduction This section provides a brief overview of Lotus Productivity Tools. Section 2 including chapters two through six Using the productivity tools This section instructs you on how to work with each of the three editors IBM Lotus Documents for word processing IBM Lotus Spreadsheets for spreadsheets and IBM Lotus Presentations for slide presentations. Section 3 chapter 7 Getting More Helps This section lists resources where you can get further help on Lotus Productivity Tools. Note This guide is based on IBM Lotus Notes 8. Beta version of the product. Table 1-1 Terminology Term or acronym Definition Productivity tools The three editors that are included with Lotus Notes 8 ODF Open Document Format Office suite A full-featured office productivity suite such as Microsoft Office WordPerfect Office or IBM Lotus SmartSuite . Eclipse Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks tools and runtimes for building deploying and managing software across the lifecycle of the product. Plug-in Software module that plugs in to the Eclipse platform in order to give it a specific additional functionality. Copyrights disclaimer THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. WHILE EFFORTS WERE MADE TO VERIFY THE COMPLETENESS AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENTATION IT IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. IN ADDITION THIS INFORMATION IS BASED ON IBM S CURRENT PRODUCT PLANS AND STRATEGY WHICH ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE BY IBM .
