• Repositioning folders
  (From the Menu bar, click Edit > Folders. Choose a folder and click the Up/Down/Right/Left buttons)
• Sorting folders (right-click the Cabinet and click "sort subfolders")
• Starting to type a name in an address box and have the program auto-complete it
• Dragging a message from your Mailbox to a folder (the Web version requires you to select messages, click the Move button, and select a folder from a popup window)
• Setting up a notification so that your computer signals you every time a new message comes into your mailbox (see the document on GroupWise's Notify program)

GroupWise versions

CCSF is currently using GroupWise version 6.5, up from 6.0. In order to use the new features in the 6.5 release, Windows version, some software on your individual computer must be upgraded.

How to tell which version you have

Not everyone has the upgraded Windows program available on their CCSF computer. If you open the Windows GroupWise program by clicking the globe icon, you can easily check which version you have. Look at your folder list (under the Mailbox icon, top left). If you see a Checklist folder and a Contacts folder, you have the upgraded software. Use the documents marked 6.5. If you don't see a Checklist folder, use the documents marked 6.0. If there is no indication on a document, it applies to either version

Web pages on GroupWise (Windows-only version)

• The Main Screen (clickable)

Word Documents on GroupWise

• New GroupWise Full-Featured Windows program 6.5 [Word]
• GroupWise Full-Featured Windows program 6.0 [Word]
  Basic introductory information: Tells you what you need to know to get started using the main features of the GroupWise Windows program.
• If you are proficient in the GroupWise Windows program, and want to know about the new version's special features: New features 6.5 [Word]

Calendaring and Scheduling

GroupWise has a personal Calendar/scheduler built in. Use it to schedule your own appointments, and, if the other members of your department or committee keep up their calendars, to schedule meetings and check on available times.

• GroupWise Calendar 6.5 [Word]
• GroupWise Calendar 6.0 [Word]

Special Topics

• Setting up a Group 6.5 [Word] so that you can conveniently send messages to the same list of people [PDF version]
• Getting your Class List and sending email to students [PDF] (Windows version of Grou0pWise only)
• Setting a GroupWise Font [Word]
  Windows only: When you open the GroupWise Windows program on a new computer, the text for reading and sending messages may be tiny. Surprisingly, you can't change the font size setting in GroupWise: it's a Windows thing....
  
• Archiving Messages to folders or your hard disk on the new version 6.5 [Word]
• Archiving messages - saving messages to folders or to your computer's hard disk 6.0 [Word]
  Folders organize your messages. But sometimes you want to save messages outside your email. GroupWise allows you to get messages off the server and onto your hard disk, but to conveniently access them from within the GroupWise Windows program. Since archiving messages takes them off the server, it's a way of cutting down the size of your email: remember you "only" have 250 megabytes of storage space on the server!
• Managing your Mailbox: Checking capacity and utilization; hints for reducing the size of your mailbox.

• Setting up alarms for messages or meetings on the new version 6.5 [Word]
• Setting up alarms when messages arrive or a meeting is about to happen 6.0 [Word]
  You can have a message pop up on your screen when new messages come in or to remind you about meetings entered in your calendar.

• All about Proxying in the new version 6.5 [Word]
• All about Proxying 6.0 [Word]
  You can allow others to read your calendar or email, or even send messages as if they were you. Great for Administrators with trusted (and busy) secretaries.

• Setting up a Vacation message [Word].
  Have GroupWise automatically send a reply (that you compose) to all messages coming to you while you are away on a break or vacation:
  Much easier to do in the Web version of GroupWise!
  If you really want to do your Vacation message in the Windows Version, try these links:
  http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/gwmag/tips/t_cool_vacation_rule.html
  or, from Oxford's site: http://www.imsu.ox.ac.uk/services/groupwise/autoreply