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Internet Explorer Tips
If, like most people online, you use Internet Explorer, there are some shortcuts you should be aware of that will help you get around the web faster. The basic tip is that the keyboard is often faster than the mouse. If you learn the shortcut key, it will often be faster than moving your hand to the mouse, moving the mouse to a button or opening a menu, clicking, moving to the next button or menu, and so on. It requires a bit of memorizing up front, but once you’ve used these keys a few times they’ll become second nature.
- Probably the most useful shortcut of the lot is to open a new Internet Explorer window when you click on a link. So let’s say your Google search gave you a list of results that you want to explore. If you simply click on one, the new page will overwrite your Google results, and to return to them you have to use the click the Back button (or Backspace key - that’s another shortcut worth remembering). If you have to do this a lot it can be tedious.
There is an easier way! If you hold the Shift key down when you click on a link - your new page will appear in a new browser window. Your Google results remain in the original window - no need to hit the Back button. Of course if you do this too often your screen will be cluttered with windows but they are easy to clear up. (See the next tip.)
- If you use the first tip to open new browser windows you should also learn the fastest way to close them. You don’t need to move the mouse to the ‘X’ in the corner to close it. Simply hold down the Alt key and press F4. This will close the active window. You can keep hitting Alt-F4 to close more windows, and it’s faster than using the mouse.
- Do you often type “www.” and “.com” ? There’s no need! Just type the main part of the address e.g. “google” and then type Ctrl-Enter (that is, hold the Ctrl key and hit the Enter key). The “www.” and “.com” will be filled in for you.
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