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Below is a listing of various tips that can be used with
Microsoft Internet Explorer. Some of the below tips may list a
date next to them for the month and year that they were
featured in our monthly tip
section. If you're looking for more general Internet
tips you may also wish to visit our Internet
tips section.
Quickly bookmark a web page
Internet browser lists
Internet browser favorites
Get to the address bar using your
keyboard
Quickly scroll using the space bar
Full screen Internet
Control Panel icons
Internet and spyware
Automatically enter URL
View Internet shortcuts from channel bar
Move forwards and backwards on web page with mouse wheel
Quickly access a e-mail domain
Open a link in a new window
Determine the last update of a page your visiting
Disable animated pictures
Print only sections of a web page
Increase decrease size of font with wheel on mouse
Quickly find text on a web page
Save an Internet picture as your desktop picture
Quickly move forward and backwards between pages
Increase the appearance of fonts.
Microsoft Internet
Explorer shortcuts
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Quickly bookmark a
web page
Quickly bookmark any web page in all
major browsers by pressing
CTRL + D on your keyboard. Pressing these two keys
together will open the bookmarks or favorites for your
browser and allow you to quickly place a bookmark for
the page you're currently at. For example, pressing the
two keys now would bookmark this page.
Internet browser lists
Quickly find an icon in a group of icons
or a specific item in an alphabetic list of items by
highlighting one of the icons or list items and pressing
the beginning letter of the item you're looking for.
Below are some examples of how this could be used.
Windows desktop icons - If you
have a lot of icons on your desktop or in another folder
highlight one of the icons and press the first letter.
For example if you were looking for an icon named "test"
highlight any icon and then press the "t" key. Note: you
can also press the "t" key multiple times to
individually highlight each icon that starts with "t".
Internet drop down list - Instead
of scrolling through a list of options in an Internet
drop down list press the first letter of the option
you're looking for. For example, if you were looking
through a list of states and you wanted "Utah" press U
to automatically scroll down to it.
Internet browser favorites
Sort your Internet browser favorites or bookmarks in alphabetical
name order by following the below steps.
Internet Explorer: Click Favorites and within
the favorites click your right mouse button and select Sort by Name.
Get to the address bar using your
keyboard
Quickly get to the
address bar in
Internet Explorer and
Mozilla
Firefox by pressing the
F6
key on the top of your
keyboard.
Opera users can press the
F8 key to get to the address bar.
In addition to the above function keys
users can also use CTRL + L and/or CTRL+O to quickly get
to the browser address bar in almost all browsers.
Quickly scroll
using the space bar
Quickly scroll one page at a
time in Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox by
pressing the spacebar. Move backup a page at a time
by pressing shift + spacebar.
Full screen
Internet
Make your Internet
Explorer or Mozilla Firefox the full screen without
all the toolbars by pressing the F11 key. To restore
the window back to how it was press F11 again.
Control
Panel icons
Open Control Panel icons from Internet Explorer by typing
"Control Panel\<name of Control Panel
item>". For example, if you wanted to open the
system properties from Control Panel you could type
"Control Panel\System".
Internet
and spyware
Spyware, malware, and other adware is becoming an ever-growing
threat on the Internet. We highly recommend users who
have not already installed spyware protection on their
computer do so immediately. An excellent example of a
free spyware program is
Spybot
Search & Destroy. A listing of other spyware
protection programs and information about browser
hijacking can also be found on
document
CH000578.
Automatically
enter URL
Automatically
enter the www. and .com into an Internet Explorer's
address by typing the name of the page and pressing
CTRL + ENTER on the keyboard. For example, if you type
computerhope and then press CTRL + ENTER you will
automatically be sent to the proper page.
View
Internet shortcuts from channel bar
View your Internet Explorer shortcuts from the
desktop with the Channel Bar. To enable this bar click
Start / Run / Type iexplore -channelband and
press enter.
Move
forwards and backwards on web page with mouse
wheel
Quickly
move forwards and backwards between web pages by
holding down the shift key and scrolling up or down on
your mouse.
Quickly
access a e-mail domain
Quickly
and easily access a users domain by pasting their
e-mail into the address bar of Internet Explorer. For
example, pasting support@computerhope.com will
automatically forward you to the computerhope.com web
page.
Update:
This no longer works in new versions of Internet
Explorer.
Open a link
in a new window
Open a link in a new Internet Explorer browser window by holding down
the shift key on the keyboard
and clicking on the link.
Determine the last update of a page your
visiting
Determine the exact date
and time when a website was last updated or modified by inserting
the below string into the
address
bar.
javascript:alert(document.lastModified)
Disable
animated pictures
Disable animated pictures commonly animated
GIF
pictures in Microsoft
Internet
Explorer 6.0 by clicking Tools and selecting Internet
Options. From Internet Options click the Advanced tab,
within this window under Multimedia uncheck the box
"Play animations in web pages."
It is important to realize that this will only disable
animated pictures, animated java scripts or applets or
Flash animations will not be disabled.
Print only
sections of a web page
Save on your printer ink by selectively printing in
Windows programs such as Microsoft Word, Internet
Explorer, WordPad, Outlook, etc. To do this
highlight
portions of text you wish to print and click print. In the
printer dialog window under Page Range choose the option
Selection. It is important to realize that not all
programs or printer drivers support this feature.
Increase
decrease size of font with wheel on mouse
Quickly increase and decrease
the size of a font on a web page by holding down the CTRL key
on the keyboard and scrolling up or down with the wheel on a
wheel mouse.
Quickly
find text on a web page
Quickly find anything on the current page or frame by
pressing CTRL + F.
Save an
Internet picture as your desktop picture
Quickly save a picture as your wallpaper by right-clicking
on an image and choosing set as wallpaper.
Quickly
move forward and backwards between pages
Pressing ALT + the forward or back button will take the user forward or back one page.
When increasing your color to 16-bit color you will notice an increase of picture
quality on images viewed over the Internet.
Increase the
appearance of fonts
If you are running Windows 95 with Plus Pack installed or have Windows 98 enable smooth
font for a dramatic change in the jaggies on fonts when displaying a web page.
To do this click Start / Settings / Control Panel / double-click the Display icon /
click the Effects tab and check smooth edges on screen fonts, click Apply and then ok.
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