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IE 7 Shortcut keys tips

We have started enjoying the IE7 and IE 7 always tries to help us by providing the possible shortcut keys (as being impatient we miss it). Here are those for you and me

 

Keyboard shortcuts

Open links in a new tab in the background

CTRL+click

Open links in a new tab in the foreground

CTRL+SHIFT+click

Open a new tab in the foreground

CTRL+T

Open a new tab from the Address bar

ALT+ENTER

Open a new tab from the search box

ALT+ENTER

Open Quick Tabs (thumbnail view)

CTRL+Q

Switch between tabs

CTRL+TAB/CTRL+SHIFT+TAB

Switch to a specific tab number

CTRL+n (n can be 1-8)

Switch to the last tab

CTRL+9

Close current tab

CTRL+W

Close all tabs

ALT+F4

Close other tabs

CTRL+ALT+F4

Mouse shortcuts

Open a link in a background tab

Click the middle mouse button on a link

Open a new tab

Double-click the empty space to the right of the last tab

Close a tab

Click the middle mouse button on the tab

 

Namoskar!!!

Posted: Sunday, March 18, 2007 5:10 PM by wriju

Comments

RSS It All said:

We have started enjoying the IE7 and IE 7 always tries to help us by providing the possible shortcut

# March 18, 2007 1:00 PM

wriju said:

Thanks for the feedback.

Wriju

# March 21, 2007 5:44 PM

Wriju's BLOG said:

Few days back I have talked about the IE 7 short cut keys in one of my BLOG entries at IE 7 Shortcut

# March 23, 2007 9:23 PM

Rik said:

does anyone know the shortcut for "view source"?

# January 20, 2008 8:02 AM

Manmeet Singh said:

I would say mindblowing

I went to google typed "shortcuts for IE7" and your website was right on the top.

This shows that its quite popular, and ofcourse why not you have infos which people looks for.

Thanks.

# January 24, 2008 12:16 AM

Naveed said:

Is there a way to change short-cut keys in IE 7.

Naveed

# February 25, 2008 3:08 AM

Match said:

Thank you for the article. It is very helpful and has lots of good tips!

# March 6, 2009 5:50 PM

Hugo said:

Alt-V-C will do it.

Would be a good idea if you could add this tio your shortcut tips above for an easy find.

Regards,

Hugo

# September 15, 2009 3:10 PM

Hugo said:

Alt-V-C will do it.  This will allow you to "View Source".

Would be a good idea if you could add this tio your shortcut tips above for an easy find.

Regards,

Hugo

# September 15, 2009 3:11 PM
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