UNIT 8: Internet Explorer—Management of Favorites and History
1.0 Introduction
Internet Explorer contains a system of marking frequently visited web sites, these are known as Favorites. The settings for your Favorites are located on the main menu bar of Internet Explorer.
Apart from the use of Favorite, there are several ways to find web sites and pages you've viewed in the last few days, hours, or minutes.
2.0 Objectives
At the end of this unit you will be able to:
Create a new Favorites folder;
Manage your Favorites;
Use history button to locate sites visited.
3.1 Locating the Favorites Folder
Select the 'Favorites' sub-menu with your mouse, or press 'ALT—A'
Now select 'Organize Favorites' from this menu. The Organize Favorites dialog box has now appeared.
The Move button allows you to move your Favorites to another directory. The Rename button will let you change the name of the Favorite you selected. The Delete button will delete the Favorite you have selected.
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3.2 Creating a New Favorites Folder
As your list of Favorites grows, you can keep it organized by creating folders. You might want to organize your pages by topic. For example, you could create a folder named Information Technology for storing information about Information Technology. This allows you to easily locate a Favorite page.
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To create a new folder for your favorites, go to the Organize Favorites dialog box again by clicking Favorites and then selecting "Organize Favorites".
In this box, a button is located in the upper-right that will allow you to create a new folder (This button has been circled in red in the figure below). Click this button and a new folder will appear.
The default name of this folder is "New Folder" . Change the name by typing a new name when the "New Folder" text is highlighted. You can always change a file or folder name by clicking on the file or folder one time. Then click the right mouse button and select Rename.
Exercise 1
What will necessitate your adding a website in your Favorite folder?
If you pay frequent visit to a particular site you can add it in your Favorite folder. This will give you easy access to the site URL.
3.3 Adding To Favorites
1. When you are at a web site that you would like to add to your Favorites, go up to the "Favorites"
menu item and click on "Add To Favorites". This will bring up a dialog box in which you can change the name of the Favorite.
2. Click "OK" and the Favorite is added to your current Favorites list. A shortcut to bring up the dialog box is to press and hold "ALT" and then press and hold "A". Hold both until the Add To Favorites dialog box appears.
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3.4 Deleting Favorites
With time the folder containing your Favorites will contain so many Favorites that locating a particular one will take you quiet some time, hence once in a while, you will have to do some cleaning up by deleting Favorites that you no longer need from your Favorite folder. Follow the steps below to delete Favorites from your computer.
From the Organize Favorites dialog box, select the Favorite that you wish to delete by clicking once on it. Now three buttons have lit up just below the listing of your Favorites.
Click the Delete button and it will ask you to confirm whether or not you really want to delete it.
Click Yes if you want to delete the Favorite you've selected.
Exercise 2
Why do you think it is important to delete some Favorites from your computer?
3.5 History Button
The History list shows where you've been — today, yesterday, or a few weeks ago. If you forget to add web pages to your Favorites or Links bar, click the History button on the toolbar. Click a name from the list to display the page. You can hide the History bar by clicking the History button again.
There are several ways to find web sites and pages you've viewed in the last few days, hours, or minutes.
3.5 .1 To find a page you've seen in the last few days
On the toolbar, click the History button.
The History bar appears, containing links for web sites and pages visited in previous days and weeks.
In the History bar, click a week or day, click a web site folder to display individual pages, and then click the page icon to display the web page.
To sort or search the History bar, click the arrow next to the View button at the top of the History bar.