Where did my bookmark bar go in Lotus Notes 8.5?
What happened to my bookmark bar?
I don’t like this Open button. For those of us who don’t like change and miss that bookmark bar on the left hand side with all our icons on it, there is hope, you can get it back!
To get your bookmark bar back right click on the OPEN menu icon and choose “Dock the Open List” or you can go to VIEW then then second last from the bottom choose “Dock the Open List” there. VOILA you now have your good old trusty Bookmark Bar with all your icons on the left hand side.
Note that the Bookmark Bar and the Open button are mutually exclusive – you can have one or the other, but not both at the same time.
Filed under Where did it go?


[...] As Lee and I were rolling out the new client this winter, there were two “what happened to” complaints that we heard over and over. The first was the “what happened to my bookmark bar” question (actually, usually phrased as in “what happened to the icons I used to have on the left side of my screen?”). You can get it back – we addressed that one HERE. [...]
lotus properly close then copy to bookmark in onther PC, properly copy in data folder then open lotus
Thanks for saving my bacon. Worked like a charm.