General shortcuts
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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+MINUS
Zoom to 100%
CTRL+0
Navigation shortcuts
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
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+J
Open Feeds in pinned mode
CTRL+SHIFT+J
Open History
CTRL+H
Open History in pinned mode
CTRL+SHIFT+H
Tab shortcuts
Open link in new background tab
Middle mouse button or CTRL+left 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)
Middle mouse button on the tab or CTRL+W
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
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 the Address Bar*
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
Instant Search Box
Select the Instant Search Box
CTRL+E
View list of search providers
CTRL+DOWN
Open search results in new tab
ALT+ENTER
Common tasks
To do this
Do this
Disable all add-ons
Windows logo key + R > iexplore.exe ?extoff
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
To do this
Do this
Delete cookies, passwords, form data, history, and temporary
Internet files
Tools > Delete Browsing History
Find and install add-ons
Tools > Manage Add-ons > Find More Add-ons
Print part of page
Select part of the page you want to print, press CTRL+P, click
Selection, and then click Print
Change website address suffix*
Tools > Internet Options > Languages
