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Search Box Shortcuts Exist!

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Dugie clued me up on the .lnk technique, which looks pretty cool, but I wondered if there was an easy, shortcutty way to use the search box in IE7 (now I've got my provider ducks in a line)...

Looks like it's in the help! (slightly consolidated)

To do this

Press this

Go to the Toolbar Search box

CTRL+E

Open your search query in a new tab

ALT+ENTER

Open the search provider menu

CTRL+DOWN ARROW

Select the text in the Address bar

ALT+D

Yaaay!

Why not stick with .URLs or .LNKs? I love it, but it's a customization I'd have to recreate on every computer I ever used. And I tend to use a lot of computers!

Some things - like putting Notepad in the Send To menu - are definitely worth spending the time on. But every customization has a cost, and sometimes it's cheaper to invest the five minutes in learning a new shortcut. (Er, and then the twenty-seven minutes in blogging it).

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