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Smart & Easy Software Tips, Tricks & Techniques: Issue #41
Publisher: Dawn Bjork Buzbee mailto:Dawn@SoftwarePro.com
The Software Pro(R), Certified Microsoft Office Expert
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In This Issue: 9 Easy Browser Tips
Whether your favorite Internet browser is Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox, Opera or another, speed up your online activity with these keyboard shortcuts:
* Quick Find on a Webpage
* Tricks for Fast Moves to a Website
* Change Fonts for Better Reading
* Navigate to Tabs and Windows
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Quick Find on a Webpage
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Once you click on a link from Google (Yahoo, MSN, etc.) search results, quickly search the content to discover if the webpage contains the content or phrase that you are looking for.
To find text on the current page:
[Ctrl] + F
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Tricks for Fast Moves to a Website
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Jump directly to the location/address bar and highlight that text:
Internet Explorer (IE): [Alt] + D
Firefox & Opera: [Ctrl] + L
How many times a day do you click into your browser location/address bar and then type WWW [dot] SOMETHING [dot] COM? To automatically add www. before, and .com after what you're typing in the location/address bar and then go to that site:
[Ctrl] + [Enter]
For instance, to go to the Microsoft website, first move to the location/address bar, then type microsoft, and finally press [Ctrl] + [Enter].
(This is a repeat of a favorite tip)
By the way, the "http://" portion of a web address is assumed and is rarely needed when entering a web address.
To add the current webpage to your favorites/bookmarks:
[Ctrl] + D
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Change Fonts for Better Reading
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To make the screen fonts display bigger on a webpage:
[Ctrl] + = ([Ctrl] and the equals key)
To make the screen fonts display smaller on a webpage:
[Ctrl] + - ([Ctrl] and the minus key)
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Navigate to Tabs and Windows
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To open a new browser window:
[Ctrl] + N
To open a new tab (tabs are not supported by IE 6):
[Ctrl] + T
Hop among tabs within a browser window:
[Ctrl] + the tab number (tabs are ordered from left to right; numbers do not actually display)
For example, press [Ctrl] + 2 to move to the 2nd tab in your browser window.
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