By: Jenney Cheever
Internet Explorer keyboard shortcuts will keep you from having to reach for your mouse every two minutes. Since most of us spend a fairly significant portion of our days at our computers, any added time savers can make a big difference. Armed with the handy list of keyboard shortcuts, you'll be breezing your way through the Web.
- F1 Need Help? Press this.
- ALT+HOME This will bring you to your home page.
- F5 This will refresh the current webpage.
- F11 This one lets you bounce between full-screen and regular views of the browser window.
- TAB Press this to move forward through the items on a Web page, the Address bar or the Links bar. This also lets you skip to the next field in a form.
- SHIFT+TAB Press this to move back through the items on a Web page, form, the Address bar or the Links bar.
- ALT+RIGHT ARROW This will take you to the next page in your History list.
- ALT+LEFT ARROW This will take you back to the last page you visited.
- HOME Use this to get to the beginning of a document.
- END Use this to get to the end of a document.
- ESC Stuck on a page that's taking forever to load? Press this to stop downloading a page.
- CTRL+O Use this to open a new Web site or page.
- CTRL+N Use this to open a new window.
- CTRL+W This will close the current window
- CTRL+P Need to print the current page? Press this.
- ENTER Use this to activate a selected link.
- CTRL+I Use this to open your Favorites.
- CTRL+H This will show you your browsing history.
- ALT+P This opens the Page menu.
- ALT+T This opens the Tools menu.
- CTRL+click Pressing this will open the selected link in a new tab in the background.
- CTRL+SHIFT+click Pressing this will open links in a new tab in the foreground.
- CTRL+E Pressing this will take you to the search box.
- ALT+ENTER This will open your search query in a new tab
- ALT+P This will allow you to set the printing options and print the current page.
- F4 Use this to display a list of addresses you've typed.
- CTRL+ENTER This lets you save time by adding www. to the beginning and .com to the end of the text typed in the Address bar.
- CTRL+D This will add the current page to your favorites.
- ALT+A This will open the Favorites menu from the menu .
This list of Internet Explorer keyboard shortcuts can make your life much easier.