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If your a committed IE user, this page is for you. Below is a list of IE shortcuts that are available to help you make the most of your web browser.

Shortcuts can greatly increase your productivity and can help you get more done in less time. If this is the first time you're going to try shortcuts, I recommend that you learn just a handful at first and when you get use to them, just pickup a few more.

General
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