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Turn Full Screen Mode on or off | F11 | | Cycle through the Address Bar, Refresh button, Search Box, and items on a web page | TAB | | Find a word or phrase on a page | CTRL+F | | Open the current webpage in a new window | CTRL+N | | Print the page | CTRL+P | | Select all items on the page | CTRL+A | | Zoom in | CTRL+PLUS | | Zoom out | CTRL+MINUS | | Zoom to 100% | CTRL+0 |
Navigation shortcuts | |
Go to home page
| ALT+HOME | | Go backward | ALT+LEFT | | Go forward | ALT+RIGHT | | Refresh page | F5 | |
Refresh page and the cache
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CTRL+F5
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Stop downloading page |
ESC
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Favorites Center shortcuts | |
Open Favorites
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CTRL+I
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Open Favorites in pinned mode
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CTRL+SHIFT+I
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Organize Favorites
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CTRL+B
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Add current page to Favorites
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CTRL+D
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Open Feeds
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CTRL+J
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Open Feeds in pinned mode
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CTRL+SHIFT+J
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Open History
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CTRL+H
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Open History in pinned mode
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CTRL+SHIFT+H
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| Tab shortcuts | | Open link in new background tab | Middle mouse button or CTRL+left mouse button | | Open link in new foreground tab | CTRL+SHIFT+left mouse button or CTRL+SHIFT+middle mouse button | | Close tab (closes window if only one tab is open) | Middle mouse button on the tab or CTRL+W | | Open Quick Tab view | CTRL+Q | | Open new tab | CTRL+T | | View list of open tabs | CTRL+SHIFT+Q | | Switch to next tab | CTRL+TAB | | Switch to previous tab | CTRL+SHIFT+TAB |
Address Bar shortcuts | | Select the Address Bar | ALT+D | | Add "http://www." to the beginning and ".com" to the end of text in Address Bar | CTRL+ENTER | | Add "http://www." to the beginning and the website address suffix you have specified to the end of text in the Address Bar* | CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER | | Open the website address that is typed in the Address Bar in new tab | ALT+ENTER | | View list of previously typed addresses | F4 |
Instant Search Box | |
Select the Instant Search Box | CTRL+E | | View list of search providers | CTRL+DOWN | | Open search results in new tab | ALT+ENTER |
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| Disable all add-ons | Windows logo key + R > iexplore.exe –extoff | | Turn on AutoComplete so that website addresses will be automatically filled in for you if you begin to type them again | Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Use inline AutoComplete | | Change how tabs work in Internet Explorer | Tools > Internet Options > on the General tab, under Tabs, click Settings | | Display the Menu Bar at the top of the screen | To display temporarily: press the ALT key
To display permanently: Tools > Menu Bar | | Delete cookies, passwords, form data, history, and temporary Internet files | Tools > Delete Browsing History | | Find and install add-ons | Tools > Manage Add-ons > Find More Add-ons | | Print part of page | Select part of the page you want to print, press CTRL+P, click Selection, and then click Print | | Change website address suffix* | Tools > Internet Options > Languages |
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