Keyboard shortcuts are available in various areas of your Windows PC. This page lists the standard keys and key combinations in the Internet Explorer browser, a seperate page lists shortcut keys in Office 2000. They are not only there for those that have difficulty using a pointing device such as a mouse, but they also speed up browsing significantly for the more experienced user. There are some visible ones in the menubar. Hold down the Alt key while typing the underlined letter that you see and the action associated with that menubar item (opening a menu) will take place. Ironically enough, since these menus are easily accessible to the mouse, their shortcut keys, or "access keys" as they are formally called in HTML, are the least useful.
Other actions can be performed from the keyboard for which the mouse is less suited, but once you 're used to them, there 's no turning back... In fact, there are so many that a webpage can hardly script its own key functionality without overwriting one of the pre-assigned key combinations, especially since different letters are used in different languages. This page lists the keys of the standard English version.
Below are five links, each with one underlined letter. Clicking such link (runs a Javascript which) opens a list of related shortcut keys with their descriptions, and as usual on webpages, pressing Tab repeatedly will highlight the heading of your choice and Enter will activate it.
Alternatively, typ Alt + an underlined letter to cut short the tabbing loop. The links have attributes like accesskey="t" set in the HTML code. In IE on a Mac, this feature uses the Ctrl key. Except on this page, because thanks to a Javascript function keyd
| Key | Function |
|---|---|
| Tab | Rotate the focus around the elements on a page |
| Shift + Tab | Rotate the focus around the elements in the opposite direction |
| Enter | Activate the selected link |
| Escape | Stop downloading a page |
| F1 | Display Internet Explorer Help, or when in a dialog box, display context Help on an item |
| F3 | Open the Search bar (also: Ctrl + E) |
| F4 | Focus the Address bar, and drop down a list of recently visited addresses |
| F5 | Refresh the current webpage, possibly from the cache (also: Ctrl+R) |
| F6 | Focus the Address bar |
| F10 | Focus on the menu bar |
| Shift + F10 | Display a contextmenu for the active element |
| F11 | Toggle between full-screen and regular size of the browser window |
| Backspace | Go to the previous page (also: Alt + ← and Alt + mousewheel) |
| Backspace + Shift | Go to the next page (also: Alt + → and Alt + mousewheel) |
| Alt + ← | Go to the previous page (also: Backspace and Alt + mousewheel) |
| Alt + → | Go to the next page (also: Backspace + Shift and Alt + mousewheel) |
| Alt + mousewheel | Go though the history of visited pages |
| Ctrl + Tab or F6 | Move forward between frames |
| Ctrl + Tab + Shift | Move back between frames |
| ↑ | Scroll toward the top of a document |
| ↓ | Scroll toward the end of a document |
| Page Up | Scroll toward the top of a document in larger increments |
| Page Down | Scroll toward the end of a document in larger increments |
| Home | Jump to the top of a document |
| End | Jump to the end of a document |
| Alt + Home | Go to your homepage |
| Alt + F4 | Close the current window (also: Ctrl+W) |
| Ctrl + O or Ctrl + L | Open another address in this window |
| Ctrl + R | Refresh the current webpage, possibly from the cache (also: F5) |
| Ctrl + F5 | Refresh the current webpage, bypassing the cache |
| Ctrl + N | Open a new window |
| Ctrl + W | Close the current window (also: Alt + F4) |
| Ctrl + F | Find in the current page |
| Ctrl + S | Save the current page |
| Ctrl + P | Print the current page or frame |
| Ctrl + E | Open the Search bar (also: F3) |
| Ctrl + I | Open the Favorites bar |
| Ctrl + H | Open the History bar |
| Ctrl + click | In the History or Favorites bars, open multiple folders |
| Ctrl + mousewheel | Zoom text size |
| Key | Function |
|---|---|
| F6 | Select the text in the Address bar (also: Alt + D) |
| Alt + D | Select the text in the Address bar (also: F6) |
| F4 | Display a list of addresses you've typed |
| Ctrl + ← | Move the cursor right to the previous period or slash in the address text |
| Ctrl + → | Move the cursor right to the next period or slash in the address text |
| Ctrl + Enter | Add "www." to the beginning and ".com" to the end of the text typed in the Address bar |
| ↑ | Move forward through the list of AutoComplete matches |
| ↓ | Move back through the list of AutoComplete matches |
| Key | Function |
|---|---|
| Alt + P | Set printing options and print the page |
| Alt + U | Change paper, headers and footers, orientation, and margins for this page |
| Alt + A | Type the number of the page you want displayed |
| Alt + Home | Display the first page to be printed |
| Alt + ← | Display the previous page to be printed |
| Alt + → | Display the next page to be printed |
| Alt + End | Display the last page to be printed |
| Alt + Minus | Zoom out |
| Alt + Plus | Zoom in |
| Alt + Z | Display a list of zoom percentages |
| Alt + C | Close Print Preview |
| Escape | Close Print Preview |
| Key | Function |
|---|---|
| Ctrl + D | Add the current page to your favorites |
| Ctrl + B | Open the Organize Favorites dialog box |
| Alt + ↑ | Move selected item up in the Favorites list in the Organize Favorites dialog box |
| Alt + ↓ | Move selected item down in the Favorites list in the Organize Favorites dialog box |
| Key | Function |
|---|---|
| Ctrl + A | Select all items on the current webpage |
| Ctrl + X | Remove the selected items and copy them to the Clipboard |
| Ctrl + C | Copy the selected items to the Clipboard |
| Ctrl + V | Insert the contents of the Clipboard at the selected location |