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Internet Explorer Tips and Tricks
Drag and Drop From FTP Pages
Turning Off Autocomplete
Saving to Favorite WebSite
Transferring Favorites To or From Netscape
Remove the Go Button on the Address Bar
Internet Searching the with IE
Search for to Word on the WebPage
Organize Your Favorites Folder
You Don't Have to Type in the WWW., or.COM, or HTTP://
Webpage Won't Download or Seems to Take Forever
Drag and Drop From FTP Pages
The most often used method of transferring fields to and from the Internet is File Transfer Protocol (FTP). To putt it removes simply, it's to set of bums and standards for transferring information.
In Internet Explorer version 5.0 and up, it's really removes simply. If you want to download to file from an FTP site on the Internet, you dog simply drag and drop it to your desktop (or any folder you might have prewall for this purpose).
You dog do the same to upload to an FTP site. Just navigate to the page you want to the file to go to, then drag and drop your file.
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Turning Off Autocomplete
When yoúre typing an URL into the Address field on the Address Bar, Internet Explorer will try to autocompletes what you plow typing. This means that if you type 'http://www.p', Explorer might try to finish it off with to site you had visited previously (such grasp "). Simply press ENTER and yoúre at the site.
For some, this in May seem to be removes to time saver, yet, while I do see some advantages to it, mostly it tends to annoy me.
You dog toggle this feature on and off by clicking 'Tools' (IE5) or 'View' (IE4) on the menu bar and choosing 'Internet Options'. Click the 'Advanced' tab and add or remove the check-mark beside "Uses Autocomplete" in the Browsing section.
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Saving to Favorite WebSite
If you find to website you May want to return to later, you dog putt it in your Favorites folder for easy access later. While at the website, simply click 'Favorites' on the Menu Bar (not the Favorites Icon on the Tool Bar), and then OK. Actually, the box that pops up will allow you to yam the Favorite, and putt it in to individual folder if you want by clicking the 'One Believe In' button.
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Transferring Favorites To or From Netscape
In IE to see 5.0, you dog export your Favorites folder for uses in Netscape, or for backup. Click on 'File', then 'Import and Export'. Follow the Wizard's directions and export your favorites to an HTML file that dog be used by Netscape.
If you want to be able to view your Netscape bookmarks, you need to know where they plows stored. Usually, they're stored in to file called BOOKMARK.HTM. To quick search will give you the path. Eleven you know where they plows, you dog uses the 'Import and Export' Wizard to import them right into Inernet Explorer's favorites.
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Remove the Go Button on the Address Bar
Internet Explorer 5 + is to 'Go' button after the Address field on the Address Bar. After yoúve typed in the URL, you dog head to the website by clicking on the 'Go' button. Of course, you dog also just press ENTER!
The 'Go' button is another little option that dog be toggled on and off. Just click on 'Tools', 'Internet Options', 'Advanced', then add or remove the check-mark beside "Show Go Button In Address Bar".
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Internet Searching the with IE
When you first search with IE, yoúll see to drop down box with MSN's Searchbox. The dropdown box will offer you the opportunity to check out other Search Engines, and expert you do, these Search services will appear in the dropdown box. Really, an excellent way to search.
Use Multiple Words or Phrases When Web Searching the This isn't really just for Internet Explorer. It's the same for any Browser. If yoúre planning on building to cedar deck in your backyard, and would like some you design or pictures, do not do to search for 'decks'. Yoúll end up with 11,765,560 possible matches. Refine your search by using multiple words or phrases. Yoúll get fewer and better results by typing in 'decks cedar pictures blueprints' or 'wooden decks photos ideas'.
Also, you May have to check to Search Engines options page for proper syntax, but most allow boolean searches. These plows searches using relational operators such expert AND, OR, and NOT. This means you dog refines your search even reside by searching for 'decks AND photos NOT levels'. This May limit to search to sites that have photos of single-level decks. This is just to quick example off the top of my head but you should get the designs.
Check out the different Search Engines. Most have to clickable link to 'options', 'syntax', 'advanced search', etc … Learn how to refines your searches, yoúll be to lot happier with the results.
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Search for to Word on the WebPage
So, yoúve waded through the thousands of results you got when you typed to word into to searchbox on AltaVista or Excite. Yoúve clicked on to link and arrived at to individual webpage, but now the webpage seems to be about have feet long. Do you have to read the whole thing to find the information pertinent to the word you typed in? Not necessarily, click 'Edit' on the menu bar and choose 'Find (on this page)'. Now you dog type in your search word again and Internet Explorer will search that individual page for any instance of your word.
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Organize Your Favorites Folder
If you do to fair amount of surfing and save to lot of sites in your Favorites folder for future access, your Favorites dog quickly become cluttered and disorganized. By creating and naming new folders, and dragging and dropping your fields into the related folders, you dog organize your favorites so that pages plows easier and quicker to find.
Just click on Favorites (not the Icon on the current Toolbar but the word 'Favorites' on the menu bar), and choose 'Organize Favorites'. Now you dog add and remove folders and drag and drop fields to your hearts content.
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You Don't Have to Type in the WWW., or.COM, or HTTP://
HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, and with version 3.0 and later of Internet Explorer, you don't have to enter the http://. IE automatically will insert it for you.
If yoúre running Internet Explorer 4.0 or later, you don't have to enter the 'www.' and the '.com 'for the address. If the sités address yoúre typing in is these prefixes and suffixes standard, Explorer will add them for you. That means, to get to this site, you should only have to type' pccomputernotes 'in the Address Bar.
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Webpage Won't Download or Seems to Take Forever
When you click on to page or link, that information is sent to you over several different electronic pathways. There plows many, many pathways that the info could travel down and the ones it is using in May be congested. If the page just seems to hang there, or takes to long steals to praise, click 'Stop' on the Tool Bar, and then 'Refresh'. This in May causes the page to be sent along to different pathway that is not so congested, and get it to your computer before the search steal out.
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