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Few Tips on Internet Explorer.

 

Gain more viewing space

Right-click the Toolbar and select: "Unlock the Toolbars"

Left-click the Address Bar button, it changes to a four-way arrow

Drag the Address Bar into the empty space next to Help in the Toolbar

Next, right-click on any of the Icon Buttons, and uncheck Text Labels

Also you can select: Small Icons from the Customize menu.

Then right-click the Toolbar and select: "Lock the Toolbars"

Seeing When a Web Page Was Last Updated

You can easily determine when a web page was last updated.

Open up the page you want.

Enter javascript:alert(document.lastModified) in the Address bar

Note: You only need a java capable browser

This can be done with a single click by adding it to the Links toolbar.

While javascript:alert(document.lastModified) is in the Address bar, click on the "E" logo next to the page title in the address bar and drag and drop it onto the Links bar.

To rename it just right-click on the title in the Links toolbar.

To use this without all the typing each time:

Open C:\Windows\Favorites folder in Explorer

Copy (you must copy, NOT make a new shortcut) any existing shortcut in that folder.

Paste it back to the same (C:\windows\favorites) directory

Right click it, click properties, in the URL: box put in your tip javascript:alert(document.lastModified)

Then rename it, I named it Date Info.

That's it, it's always there in Favorites when you want it.

 

View Source Code Not Working

If when you try to view the source of any web page, notepad does not start,
try removing any shortcuts to the program on the desktop.

 

Closing Multiple Windows

If you go to web sites that open up multiple windows,
Pressing the Ctrl-W keys seems to work better than Alt-F4

 

Moving Backward or Forward with the Wheel Mouse

You can rapidly go Backward or Forward in your IE Browser by holding down the Shift key while moving the mouse wheel.
This saves moving your mouse up and clicking on the Back or Forward buttons.

Most folks already know the keyboard shortcuts by holding down the Alt key and hitting the left and right cursor keys to effect the same thing.

 

Automatic Entry of WWW and COM

Internet Explorer can automatically fill in the www and com part of a url. Just type in middle part and CTRL+Enter

 

Getting and Explorer View of Your Internet Favorites

If you want to see an Explorer type of window of your Internet Favorites,
hold the Shift key down will selecting Favorites / Organize Favorites.

This will show all your favorites and can make it easier to move them around

 

Easy Way to Scroll Through Web Pages

An easy way to scroll through web pages is with the spacebar.

The spacebar will scroll down a page
Shift-spacebar will scroll up a page

 

IE 5 Link Tips

In IE5 you can use the tab key to scroll through links on a page, then hit the Enter key to open the link.

You can also right-click a link, then choose to open it in a new window.

You can also right-click a down-loadable file and select save target to to start the download.

Change Font Size

In IE, hold down CTRL and use the mouse wheel to increase/decrease font size quickly.

 

Quickly Opening a Newsgroup from your Browser


This is a tip for quickly reading a newsgroup without having to download the whole news file which can take quite some time and be rather large.

If you know the name of the newsgroup you want to read:

Within your browser window (either IE4.X or Netscape 4.X) hit Ctrl+O which will bring up the open page window.

Type the following: news:"newsgroup name", (e.g. <news:alt.invest>) then hit Enter

The newsreader for the application will download the headers for that particular newsgroup.

 

 

Opening Links in a New Window

Hold down Shift and point with the mouse on a link.
A new IE opens automatically with the new page.

 

 

Changing Internet Explorer's Blank Page

Tired of looking at the page "BLANK.HTM" whenever Internet explorer can not connect to a site on the internet.

Try this simple trick to make this page remove itself whenever it is displayed. You will however still receive a error message telling you that you could not connect to the site.

All you need to do is to edit the file: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\BLANK.HTM until it looks like this:

<html>
<head>
<title>Microsoft Internet Explorer</title>
</head>
<body>
<script language="ZZZJavaScript">
window.close("blank.htm", "Microsoft Internet Explorer")
</script>
</body>
</html>

 

 

 




























































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