Useful IE Shortcuts

Ones I use all the time are:

Alt-D	Moves focus to address bar and selects the current location
Ctrl-W	Closes the current window/tab
Ctrl-E	Moves focus to the search box
Ctrl-Q	Thumbnail view of all open tabs
Ctrl=(1-8)	Moves to the corresponding tab (ie, Ctrl-1 is the first tab, Ctrl-2 is the second, etc)
Ctrl-9	Moves to the last tab
Ctrl-F5	Refreshes the current page, ignoring cache
Ctrl-Enter	When in the address bar, this appends www and com to the beginning and end of the text. For example, type "yahoo" into the address bar and press Ctrl-Enter and you will be taken to www.yahoo.com.

Others that are helpful to know:

Ctrl-T	Opens a new tab
Ctrl-Click/Ctrl-Shift-Click	Opens the link in a new background/foreground tab
Alt-Home	Opens your home page(s)
Alt-Left Arrow/Backspace	Navigate backwards
Alt-Right Arrow	Navigate forwards
Ctrl-+/Ctrl--/Ctrl-0	Zooms in, out, and back to 100%
Ctrl-I/Ctrl-Shift-I	Opens a floating/docked Favorites pane
Ctrl-J/Ctrl-Shift-J	Opens a floating/docked Feeds pane
Ctrl-H/Ctrl-Shift-H	Opens a floating/docked History pane
Ctrl-Alt-F4	Closes all tabs but the current one

(Edit: Note that some of these are locale specific. To find out what is available in other locales, consult the IE help file. In the English help, there is a link at the bottom of the main "Internet Explorer at a glance" page named "Internet Explorer keyboard shortcuts" which contains these shortcuts and more.)

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 27, 2007
  You might want to add that some of these apply to the US/English version only, e.g. Alt+D opens the File menu in the German version (As File is translated to Datei) and during the localization the team forgot to add the previously used Alt+S to focus the address bar :(

• Anonymous
  June 27, 2007
  Yes, good point.  I've updated the post. Thanks.  :)

• Anonymous
  June 27, 2007
  最常用的: Alt-D 输入焦点移到地址栏并自动全选以便输入新的网址 Ctrl-W 关闭当前的Tab页(中文版IE里应该叫选项卡) Ctrl-E 输入焦点移到左上角的搜索框 Ctrl-Q 显示当前所有打开的选项卡的略所图