Always a favourite subject in the Being Smarter office – how to do stuff faster using keyboard shortcuts. It constantly amazes me that Microsoft doesn’t do a better job of publicising these really handy productivity tools – they can really speed up the browsing experience and don’t take up an awful lot of brain power to remember them!
Here’s some of my favourites for Internet Explorer 7 – there are many more out there – but these should get you going if you’re new to the shortcut game.
View Bookmarks – CTRL+B
Open a new browsing tab – CTRL+T
Scroll down a webpage – SPACE
Zoom in or out of a page – CTRL+ or CTRL-
Select next tab – CTRL+TAB
Delete auto-complete entry (previously visited addresses in the address bar) – SHIFT+DELETE
Open link in a new tab – CTRL+LEFT CLICK
Go back a page – BACKSPACE
Go full screen (remove the toolbars) – F11
Close the browser window – ALT+F4
Many of these shortcuts will work for Firefox too.
