Internet Explorer Keyboard Shortcuts

Entering URLs

To go to http://www.google.com, for example, press Alt+D, type "google," and then press Ctrl+Enter.

Action	Shortcut
Location Bar	Alt+D
Automatic .com Address	Ctrl+Enter
Automatic .net Address	Shift+Enter
Automatic .org Address	Ctrl+Shift+Enter

Basic Navigation

You can access each of the navigation toolbar commands using keyboard shortcuts. They are listed below in the order in which they appear on the toolbar.

Action	Shortcut
Previous Page	Alt+Left
Next Page	Alt+Right
Location Bar	Ctrl+L
Refresh Page	Ctrl+R
Stop	Esc
Search Engine	Ctrl+E

Tabbed Browsing

In order to open a new (blank) tab, press Ctrl+T. To close a tab, press Ctrl+W. To view Quick Tabs, click Ctrl+Q

If you are entering an address in the location bar, and would like to open it in a new tab, press Alt+Enter (or Alt plus any of the three combinations listed in the "Entering URLs" section). If you are browsing a page and see a link you would like to open in a new tab, hold Ctrl while clicking the link with your mouse (Ctrl+Click), press Ctrl+Enter after you Tab onto the link, or middle click the link. (Doing each of these will open the link in the background. In order to open the link in the foreground, also hold Shift during each of these shortcuts.)

If you have multiple tabs, you can directly access the first tab using Ctrl+1, the second tab using Ctrl+2, and so on up to Ctrl+8 (Ctrl+9 takes you to the last tab, regardless of its number). To move from one tab to the next, or one tab to the previous, press Ctrl+PageUp or Ctrl+PageDown.

Finally, to start a whole new group of tabs (that is, a new window), press Ctrl+N.

Action	Shortcut
New Tab	Ctrl+T
Close Tab	Ctrl+W
Quick Tabs	Ctrl+Q
Open Address in New Tab	Alt+Enter
Open Link in New Tab (Background)	Ctrl+Click Ctrl+Enter MiddleClick
Open Link in New Tab (Foreground)	Ctrl+Shift+Click Ctrl+Shift+Enter Shift+MiddleClick
Select Tab	Ctrl+(1 to 8)
Select Last Tab	Ctrl+9
Next Tab	Ctrl+PageDown
Previous Tab	Ctrl+PageUp
New Window	Ctrl+N

Searching Page Text

To find a specific word or phrase in the text of a page, press Ctrl+F. To use the various search commands listed in the search bar, such as to find the "Next" instance of the word, press Alt and the letter underlined in the corresponding command. In the case of "Next" word, it would be Alt+N.

Action	Shortcut
Find	Ctrl+F
Next Result	Alt+N
Previous Result	Alt+P
Match Whole Word	Alt+W
Match Case	Alt+C

Miscellaneous

Action	Shortcut
Home	Alt+Home
Add to Favorites	Ctrl+D
View Favorites	Ctrl+I
Organize Favorites	Ctrl+B
History	Ctrl+H
Zoom In	Ctrl++
Zoom Out	Ctrl+-
Reset Zoom	Ctrl+0
Full Screen	F11
Advance to Next Link	Tab
Help	F1

Notes

This list is not exhaustive because I've omitted, for brevity, most of the obvious shortcuts (e.g., PageDown), redundant shortcuts (e.g., Backspace), and esoteric shortcuts (e.g., Alt+O).

These shortcuts work in Internet Explorer 7, but should be both backward and forward compatible.

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