Tips
Internet browsers, operating systems, and many programs
Windows desktop icons - If you have a lot of icons on your desktop or in another folder highlight one of the icons and press the first letter. For example if you were looking for an icon named "test" highlight any icon and then press the
"t" key. Note: you can also press the "t" key multiple times to individually highlight each icon that starts with "t".
Internet drop down list - Instead of scrolling through a list of options in an Internet drop down list press the first letter of the option you're looking for. For example, if you were looking through a list of states and you wanted "Utah" press
U to automatically scroll down to it.
Internet browser bookmarks
Sort your Internet browser favorites or bookmarks in alphabetical name order by following the below steps.
Internet Explorer: Click Favorites and within the favorites click your right mouse button and select Sort by Name.
Firefox: Click Bookmarks and within bookmarks click your right mouse button and select Sort by Name.
Mozilla Firefox
Bookmark almost any search engine and have the capability of using it anywhere by following the below simple steps.
- Right-click within the text box you wish to bookmark and click "Add a keyword for this Search.."
- Enter a name for the bookmark and then a keyword you wish to use. For example, if you were doing this in
computer hope you could type "ch" as your keyword and then click Ok to create the bookmark.
- Once created in the URL bar type your keyword and what you wish to search for. For example, if you used "ch" as your keyword and wanted to search for Firefox you'd type: "ch firefox".
