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IE shortcut
The Keyboard Lover’s Guide to IE7
No harm in trying these shortcut and see if some thing can be used in our day to day Test activityBasic navigation
To do the following | Press this |
Go Back to the last page* | Alt+Left Arrow |
Go Forward to the next page* | Alt+Right Arrow |
Stop the page from loading** | Escape (Esc) |
Refresh the page*** | F5 or Ctrl+F5 |
Go to your Homepage | Alt+Home |
Give focus to the Address Bar | Alt+D |
Add “www.” and “.com” to what you typed in the address bar before navigating**** | Ctrl+Enter |
Scroll down/up the web page | Spacebar / Shift+Spacebar |
Close the window | Alt+F4 |
Others:
Some interesting hotkeys you cannot see by simply looking in the menus…
To do the following | Press this |
Immediately add this site to your favorites | Ctrl+D |
Open your favorites in a folder window | Shift+Click on the “Organize Favorites” menu item |
Put focus on the Information Bar | Alt+N |
Open a link in a new window | Shift+Click |
Open the right click ‘context’ menu for the currently selected item | Shift+F10 |
Change the text size (will be Zoom in IE 7) | Ctrl+Mouse wheel Up/Down |
* Shift+Mouse wheel up/down also navigates forward and back, so does Backspace and Shift+Backspace
** Did you know that hitting the stop button (or Esc) will also stop background sounds?
*** If F5 doesn’t refresh all content try Ctrl+F5. This ensures no content is pulled from the cache.
**** In the Preview build we also added Ctrl+Shift+Enter when focus is in the address bar. This works like Ctrl+Enter from the address bar does today but will append a suffix of your choice to the end of the string instead of “.com” (.org, .edu, .co.uk, etc…). You can change the default suffix in the Internet Options control panel.
Note: In the Preview build we have changed the pop-up blocker override key from “Ctrl to “Ctrl+Alt” in order to avoid conflicts with our new “Ctrl” tabbed browsing hotkeys
New in Internet Explorer 7
Now that we have basic navigation down, let’s talk about some cool new shortcuts in IE 7. You will notice that for features that exist elsewhere (for example: Tabbed Browsing) we put effort into maintaining consistency where possible.
Tabs:
To do the following | Press this |
Open links in a new tab in the background | Ctrl+Click |
Open links in a new tab in the foreground | Ctrl+Shift+Click |
Open a new tab in the foreground | Ctrl+T |
Switch between tabs | Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab |
Close current tab (or current window when there are no open tabs) | Ctrl+W |
Open a new tab in the foreground from the address bar | Alt+Enter |
Switch to the n’th tab | Ctrl+n (n can be 1-8) |
Switch to the last tab | Ctrl+9 |
Close other tabs | Ctrl+Alt+F4 |
Open quick tabs | Ctrl+Q |
Zoom:
To do the following | Press this |
Increase zoom (+ 10%) | Ctrl+(+) |
Decrease zoom (-10%) | Ctrl+(-) |
Original size (100% zoom)* | Ctrl+0 |
* If you are using the recent Windows Vista preview you might notice that the 100% zoom hotkey changed from Ctrl+(*) to Ctrl+0
Search:
To do the following | Press this |
Go to the Toolbar Search Box | Ctrl+E |
Open your search query in a new tab | Alt+Enter |
Bring down the search provider menu | Ctrl+Down Arrow |
Favorites Center:
To do the following | Press this |
Open Favorites Center to your favorites | Ctrl+I |
Open Favorites Center to your history | Ctrl+H |
Open Favorites Center to your feeds | Ctrl+J |
Great new mouse actions in IE7
Even with all these cool keyboard hotkeys we’ve introduced a few helpful shortcuts for mouse users as well.
To do the following with a mouse | Press this |
Open a link in a background tab | Middle mouse button |
Close a tab | Middle mouse button on the tab |
Open a new tab | Double click on empty tab band space |
Zoom the page in/out 10% | Ctrl+Mouse wheel Up/Down |