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Bookmarking websites as favorites
You keep bookmarks for all of your favorite Web sites so that you can visit them again easily. You can also access these bookmarks which are also known as favorites from the Favorites/Feeds/History Explorer bar containing three tabs which are Favorites, Feeds and History. Now to open this bar, you click the 'View Favorites', 'Feeds' and 'History' button which are simply labeled Favorites that come at the very starting of the Favorite toolbar at the top of the Internet Explorer window. You can also press Alt+C from your key board.
If you show the Classic menus in Internet Explorer 8 by selecting Tools Toolbars Menu Bar then you can access links to your bookmarked Web pages directly from the Favorites drop-down menu.
You will find that it already contains folders such as Microsoft Websites, MSN Websites and Windows Live when you first start adding bookmarks to the Favorites tab of the Favorites/Feeds/History bar. Also, the Favorites folder may have a folder with your computer manufacturer's favorite Web sites called something like "XYZ" Corporation Recommended Sites, Mobile Favorites only if you connect a hand-held device to the system and a folder known as Imported Bookmarks if you imported bookmarks created in any other Internet browser that you use on your system.
You find that it already contains Suggested Sites and Get More Add-ons buttons when you start adding Web favorite buttons to the Favorites toolbar which is the bar that appears right beneath the row with the address bar. Now you need to click the Suggested Sites button on the Favorites toolbar and then click the Turn on Suggested Sites button in its drop-down menu to have IE 8 use your browsing history to suggest same sites that you might also want to browse. Next you can click the Get More Add-ons button and then click the Find More in the Internet Explorer 8 Add-ons Gallery link in its drop-down menu to open the Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Add-ons Gallery Internet page on a new tab in your Web browser, where you can download accelerators and Web slices for the browser.
Adding bookmarks to the Favorites toolbar
You may want to add its bookmark as a button on the Internet Explorer 8's Favorites toolbar if you plan to regularly visit the Web site you are bookmarking. In this way, you don't need to worry with opening the Favorites/Feeds/History Explorer bar or the Favorites pull-down menu in order to revisit the site. You follow these two simple steps to add a favorite Web site as a button on the Favorites toolbar:
1. First of all, you need to open Internet Explorer 8 by clicking the Internet Explorer Quick Launch button on the Windows taskbar and then browse to the Internet page that you want to add to the Favorites toolbar.
2. Now click the toolbar's 'Add to Favorites' Bar button which is the one with only the star and with the plus sign icon and no label that appears to the right of the View Favorites, Feeds, History button at the immediate of the Favorites toolbar.
Internet Explorer 8 then adds a button for that Internet page to the starting of the Favorites toolbar which is to the immediate right of the Add to Favorites Bar button. Now you can click this toolbar button everytime you want to show the Web site in the present tab of the browser.
Opening favorites
You can open the page simply by selecting the bookmark, either from the Favorites tab on the Favorites/Feeds/History bar or from the Favorites pull-down menu after you add a Internet page to your Favorites folder or one of the subfolders. If the Classic menus are displayed; press Alt+A if the menus are hidden.
Now to open the list of your IE 8 bookmarks on the Favorites tab of the Favorites/
Feeds/History bar, you need to click the View Favorites, Feeds, and History button on the
Favorites toolbar or press Alt+C on your keyboard. Click its link to visit a favorite listed in the tab.
While at the same time closing the Favorites/Feeds/History Explorer bar the Internet Explorer 8 then opens the page in the browser window. If the bookmark you want to visit is saved in a subfolder the click that folder's icon on the bar's Favorites tab to expand and show a list of the favorite links it contains. You can also click to display the page.
You can keep the Favorites/Feeds/History Explorer bar open either by clicking the Pin the Favorites Center button which is the one with the green arrow pointing to the left in the Explorer bar's right corner or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+I on your keyboard. When you want to close the Favorites/Feeds/History bar you have can press Ctrl+Shift+I again on your keyboard or click the Close button which is the one with the X.
To choose a bookmarked Web site from the Favorites pull-down menu when the Classic menus are displayed in Internet Explorer you need to choose Favorites from the menu bar and then choose the name of the bookmark on the menu. You need to drill down to the sub-folder icon to open the sub-menu, where you can click the desired bookmark if the bookmark is located in a sub-folder of Favorites.
Organizing favorites
You an also organize you bookmarks easily in Internet Explorer 8. Most of the times you will find yourself going along adding cluster of bookmarks for your preferred Web pages without ever bothering to place them in particular sub-folders. Then, to your despair, you will find yourself facing with a seemingly endless list of unrelated bookmarks every time you open the Favorites/Feeds/History bar or Favorites pull-down menu.
Windows 7 makes this very easy to reorganize even the most chaotic of bookmark lists in just a few easy steps:
1. In Windows 7 Internet Explorer 8, you need to click the View Favorites, Feeds and History button
and then click the Add to Favorites button which is with the plus sign at the top of the Favorites/Feeds/History Explorer bar. You can also press Alt+Z on your keyboard and then click Organize Favorites on the drop-down menu to open the Organize Favorites dialog box.
The Organize Favorites dialog box list shows all the subfolders, followed by all the bookmarks in the Favorites folder.
2. Now to change a bookmark into one of the sub-folders, you need to drag its icon and then
drop it on the icon of the sub-folder. You cal also click the favorite to choose it and then click the Move button to open the Browse for Folder dialog box. Then click the destination folder in the Browse for Folder dialog box and click OK.
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