Internet Explorer 7 Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts can save time performing various tasks in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7. This list includes all the basics, along with some specialized tricks that make it easy to take advantage of new IE features.

General shortcuts

Navigation shortcuts

Favorites Center shortcuts

General tasks

Tab shortcuts

Address Bar shortcuts

Search Bar shortcuts

General shortcuts

Description Keys
Turn Full Screen Mode on or off F11
Cycle through the Address Bar, Refresh button, Search Box,
and items on a web page
TAB
Find a word or phrase on a page CTRL+F
Open the current webpage in a new window CTRL+N
Print the page CTRL+P
Select all items on the page CTRL+A
Zoom in CTRL+PLUS
Zoom out CTRL+-
Zoom to 100% CTRL+0

Navigation shortcuts

Description Keys
Go to home page ALT+HOME
Go backward ALT+LEFT
Go forward ALT+RIGHT
Refresh page F5
Refresh page and the cache CTRL+F5
Stop downloading page ESC

Favorites Center shortcuts

Description Keys
Open Favorites CTRL+I
Open Favorites in Pinned mode CTRL+SHIFT+I
Organize Favorites CTRL+B
Add current page to Favorites CTRL+D
Open Feeds CTRL+D
Open Feeds in Pinned mode CTRL+SHIFT+J
Open History CTRL+H
Open History in pinned mode CTRL+SHIFT+H

General Tasks

To do this Do this
Disable all add-ons Window logo key + R > Iexplore.exe
Turn on AutoComplete so that website addresses
will be automatically filled-in for you if you begin
to type them again
Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Use inline
AutoComplete
Change how tabs work in Internet Explorer Tools > Internet Options > on the General tab,
under Tabs, click Settings
Display the Menu Bar at the top of the screen To display temporarily: press the ALT key
To display permanently: Tools > Menu Bar

Tab shortcuts

Description Keys
Open link in new background tab CTRL+left mouse button or middle mouse button
Open link in new foreground tab CTRL+SHIFT+left mouse button or
CTRL+SHIFT+middle mouse button
Close tab (closes window if only one tab is open) CTRL+W or CTRL+F4
Open Quick Tab view CTRL+Q
Open new tab CTRL+T
View list of open tabs CTRL+SHIFT+Q
Switch to next tab CTRL+TAB
Switch to previous tab CTRL+SHIFT+TAB

Address Bar shortcuts

Description Keys
Select the Address Bar ALT+D
Add "http://www." to the beginning
and ".com" to the end of text in Address Bar
CTRL+ENTER
Add "http://www." to the beginning and the website
address suffix you have specified to the end of text in
Address Bar (change website address suffix)
CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER
Open the website address that is typed in the Address Bar in new tab ALT+ENTER
View list of previously typed addresses F4

Search Bar shortcuts

Description Keys
Select the Search Bar CTRL+E
View list of search providers CTRL+DOWN
Open search results in new tab ALT+ENTER

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