If you have been using Internet Explorer 7 for a while, and the new-ness has worn off, now is a good time to learn a few keyboard and mouse shortcuts to help get you around the Internet more efficiently.
Below you will find the more useful keyboard shortcuts, but first check out these two mouse shortcut gems….
1) Load From Memory - Have you ever wrote a post or reply or comment on a page, or filled a form, or answered a survey just to find out you clicked a link by accident and ‘lost’ your work? Hold down shift and then use the mouse/keyboard scroll wheel: you can attempt to go forward or backward in your browser history from the RAM. This isn’t like the back/front buttons at the top, those take you to the URL stored, but the scroll wheel trick will load the contents from memory, and if you’re lucky, the form hasn’t been reset.
2) Change Font on the Fly - By holding down the ctrl button using scrolling either up or down with the scroll wheel on your mouse or keyboard, you can make the font size increase or decrease as well.
(More shortcut tips can be found at NeoSmart.net. Read the full article here: 10 Great New & Undiscovered IE7 Keyboard Shortcuts )
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Turn Full Screen Mode on or off
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F11
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Cycle through the Address Bar, Refresh button, Search Box, and items on a web page |
TAB
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Find a word or phrase on a page
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CTRL+F
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Open the current webpage in a new window
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CTRL+N
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Print the page
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CTRL+P
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Select all items on the page
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CTRL+A
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Zoom in
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CTRL+PLUS
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Zoom out
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CTRL+-
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Zoom to 100%
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CTRL+0
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Go to home page
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ALT+HOME
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Go backward
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ALT+LEFT
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Go forward
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ALT+RIGHT
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Refresh page
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F5
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Refresh page and the cache
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CTRL+F5
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Stop downloading page
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ESC
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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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Open link in new background tab
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CTRL+left mouse button or middle mouse button
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Open link in new foreground tab
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CTRL+SHIFT+left mouse button or CTRL+SHIFT+middle mouse button |
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Close tab (closes window if only one tab is open)
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CTRL+W or CTRL+F4
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Open Quick Tab view
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CTRL+Q
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Open new tab
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CTRL+T
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View list of open tabs
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CTRL+SHIFT+Q
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Switch to next tab
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CTRL+TAB
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Switch to previous tab
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CTRL+SHIFT+TAB
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Select the Address Bar
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ALT+D
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Add "http://www." to the beginning and ".com" to the end of text in Address Bar |
CTRL+ENTER
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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
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Open the website address that is typed in the Address Bar in new tab |
ALT+ENTER
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View list of previously typed addresses
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F4
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Select the Search Bar
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CTRL+E
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View list of search providers
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CTRL+DOWN
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Open search results in new tab
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ALT+ENTER
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(Source: MSDN )
Comments on Take Control Of Internet Explorer 7 with These Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts
uk tim @ 7:40 am
This is not correct. Ctrl + left mouse button opens the homepage in a new browser window. It also breaks with the previous convention of selecting multiple non-adjacent list items. Well done!
Tim, it sure does work! You may want to check your settings and verify your keyboard is mapping properly.
uk tim @ 5:49 am
Hi, thanks for the post. In the meantime found that it was some obscure setting in the screen driver that caused this behaviour. However, Firefox was unaffected.
Tim…"Well done!"
Dave @ 9:42 pm
On all sites I have read regarding a keyboard shortcut for changing the font size in IE7, they all say to use Ctrl+ and Ctrl-. However, this does not seem to change the font size, but rather "zoom" in or out on the web page. You might say the result is the same, but when you "zoom in" you lose site of the edges of the web page…a true zoom function…but when you use the VIEW > TEXT SIZE command, the text is increased and re-wraped on the page…these are two different functions and I have not been able to find a keyboard shortcut that does this…anybody?
Dirk @ 9:06 am
Is there a keyboard shortcut to scroll to the far left of a page in IE7? I want to go all the way to the left with one command (I'm using voice commands but can say an key command.)
@Dirk
Are you referring to when there is a scroll bar present at the bottom of the page? If so, you can use the right and left arrow keys.