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Three new short-cut keys for your browser and for File Explorer |
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At Wise Owl we are passionate about short-cut keys - both using them, and sharing discoveries about them with our newsletter readers. Imagine our excitement when we found these gems that you can use when browsing the Internet! |
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The keyboard short-cuts below work in Chrome, Edge and (for all we know) other browsers; they also work in File Explorer.
If you want to go straight to the address bar, just press Alt + D:
Press Alt + D to go to the address bar and select its text (you can then immediately overwrite this with the URL that yoiu want to go to).
This key also works in Windows Explorer:
You can get to your file path even more easily now!
You can use the following keys to go backwards and forwards between pages:
To do this | Press this |
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Go back to the previous page | Alt + Left arrow |
Go forward to the next page | Alt + Right arrow |
I wish I'd discovered these years ago!
Instead of clicking on the Back button, just press Alt + Left arrow to go back to the prevous page!
Again, this works in File Explorer too:
The short-cut key works here too (presumably because File Explorer is actually just Edge behind the scenes?).
I don't normally credit family members, but thanks are due to Katy for bringing these life-changing short-cut keys to my attention.
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