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Kestrokes that save you time in IE

What are the undiscovered windows shortcuts you use?

         

jcoronella

8:59 pm on Apr 8, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I use 'vi' a lot on linux, and I love the keyboard based commands in progams that are text based. I use IE a LOT during the day and went searching around for some useful keystrokes.

Do you folks have any you use during the day that you find particularly useful?

Internet Explorer
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alt-a - brings up my favorite's and I can type the first letter of the next favorite. So the two keystroke command would be:

- [alt-a,g]oogle
- [alt-a,y]ahoo
- [alt-a,w]ebmasterworld
- webmaster world [alt-a,s]upporters forum

I have long used the alt-tab to switch windows, and alt-F* keys like alt-F4 to close a window, but two letter combinations are just as fast because my hand doesn't have to move from the keyboard.

Alt-d is another useful single key shortcut which highlights the address bar for typing in a URL.

Additionally, I found that I can drop shortcuts into the favorites for other programs I use a lot like notepad, calculator, html editors,etc. You can rename the first letter in favorites if there are duplicates.

bantam

11:21 pm on Apr 8, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Oh wow! That's a handy tool I wasn't aware of before!

I usually use the Windows-M to show desktop and Windows-L to switch user.