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 |
