Modify font and color properties of unread/read documents in Notes 8.5.2

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  By default lotus note client 8.5.2 defined 2 modes of display for unread mail (File > Preferences... > Fonts and Colors ) in unread mail indication are Bold Black Text, and Plain Red text. You can just switch between these two mode. 

How could we set it in to bold with red or any other color?


After searching on the net, I come across a topic which said we can customize the this unread mail to another color beside the default black one.

It's recommended to modify and update CSS file in their JAR file. This time I referred to com.ibm.notes.branding_8.5.2.20100811-1131.jar

You can follow the following step

1. Close your Notes Application

2. Backup the initial jar file (com.ibm.notes.branding_8.5.2.20100811-1131.jar), this is prevent from any wrong doing on the package, so we can restore it back. 

3. Extract com.ibm.notes.branding_8.5.2.20100811-1131.jar to your prefered location

4. Suppose your note installation is in "C:\Program Files\lotus\notes". 
   Create a folder "themes" in the folder "C:\Program Files\lotus\notes\framework\shared\eclipse\plugins", and then copy the file named notes.css from your extraction in the folder "\themes" and past in to new folder you just created ("C:\Program Files\lotus\notes\framework\shared\eclipse\plugins\themes") 

5. Modify the notes.css with the following statement in unread block

/* this sets the style for messages that have been marked as "unread" */
mailtable>row>unread {
color: red;
font-family: Tahoma, Times, Helvetica;
font-size: x-small;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: bold;
}


6. I would recommend you to mount untill C:\Program Files\lotus\notes\framework\shared\eclipse\plugins if you use comment promt to update
this jar file. To update it with your news notes.css file you need to run the following command:
jar uf com.ibm.notes.branding_8.5.2.20100811-1131.jar themes\notes.css 

7. Restart your Notes Client 









Or  a simplest way with WINRAR is to edit the file notes.css directly in the com.ibm.notes.branding_8.5.2.20100811-1131.jar package and the program will request to update the JAR package my them self. It is recommend to close Lotus Note application before doing these otherwise it will be fail in updating the JAR package after editing the notes.css file.


     You need to reselect File > Preferences... > Fonts and Colors, and unread mail indication again to see their affection.



You can also see it original posted at lotus

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