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Opera's panels, enabled with F4, gives you quick access to your bookmarks, contacts, messages, and much more.
| Operation | How to do it |
|---|---|
| Display generic multiple choice menu | Right-click the panel's button on the panel selector. |
| Display specific multiple choice menu | Right-click list items within a particular panel. |
| Display panel | Click respective panel button. |
| Remove panel | Hide the selected panel from view. |
|---|---|
| Edit panel | Edit panel properties (Web panels only). |
| Customize | Go to dialog where you can change the browser layout. |
Opera comes with a wide selection of bookmarks to popular sites already installed. You may add and organize bookmarks as you wish.
| Operation | How to do it |
|---|---|
| Create bookmark for active Web page | Drag page icon from Address bar to Bookmarks panel (or press Ctrl + T) |
| Open bookmark in active page | Click bookmark |
| Open bookmark in new page | Press Shift and click the bookmark |
| Open bookmark in the background | Press Ctrl + Shift and click the bookmark |
| Make bookmark available at all times | Drag bookmark or page icon to Personal bar |
| Find bookmark | Enter text to search for in "Quick find" field |
| Create folder to organize bookmarks | Click drop-down arrow on "Add" button, select "New folder" |
| Open all bookmarks in selected folder | Drag bookmark folder to Opera's workspace |
| Move bookmarks and folders around | Drag and drop items |
| Sort your bookmarks | Click "View" |
| Fast access to bookmark | Press Shift + F2 and start entering nickname |
| Manage bookmarks | Press Ctrl + Alt + B |
Press Alt + Enter to:
The panel is only displayed if you have set up an e-mail account. Read about Opera's news and e-mail client
Create contacts and store e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, chat nicknames, and postal addresses. This panel is only displayed if you have e-mail and/or chat enabled.
| Operation | How to do it |
|---|---|
| Create new contact | Click "Add" |
| Create folder for group of contacts | Click the drop-down arrow on the "Add" button, select "New folder" |
| Recognize sender of message as new contact | Press A while viewing message |
| Show messages associated with contact | Click contact |
| Make contact available at all times | Drag contact to Personal bar |
Press Alt + Enter to:
Tip: If you type the word "party" in the Notes field of your coolest friends, you can later type "party" in the "Quick find" field to find all those people, then drag and drop them into an e-mail to send a party invitation.
The panel is only displayed if you have set up a chat account. Read about Opera's chat client
Opera's history panel keeps a list of Web pages that you have recently visited. In Opera's History and cache preferences, you may choose how many addresses to keep track of.
Tip: If you recall having visited an interesting site, but forgot to bookmark it, use the "Find" field in the History panel to locate it.
Click history entries to open them in the current page, or hold Shift while clicking to open the entry in a new page.
Opera's transfers panel lets you monitor and control files being transferred between your computer and the Internet.
| Operation | How to do it |
|---|---|
| Download file linked to in a Web page | Click the link to the file or drag the link to the "Quick download" field |
| Download file | Enter file address in the "Quick download" field |
| Resume transfer of selected files | Click "Resume" |
| Stop transfer of selected files | Click "Stop" |
| Transfer selected file again | Click "Retransfer" |
| Sort list of files | Click column headers |
Note: Not all Web sites support resuming of file transfers.
The Notes panel can serve as a clipboard manager, a "to do" list, and other means of remembering multiple strings of text.
| Operation | How to do it |
|---|---|
| Write a new note | Click "New note" |
| Organize notes into folders | Click drop-down arrow on "New note" button, select "New folder" |
| Take notes from a Web page | Mark text in page, then press Ctrl + Shift + C |
| Paste from clipboard into note | Press Ctrl + Shift + V |
| Search the Web for contents in note | Drag note to search field and press Enter |
| Delete a note to trash | Click note and press Delete |
| Undelete a note from trash | Open trash and drag note out into notes list |
| Organize notes and folders | Use drag and drop |
Tip: The right-click menu of all edit fields, such as e-mail messages and Web forms, contains the sub-menu "Insert note". Use Notes to store strings of text that you use repeatedly, such as standard e-mail messages or templates, and signatures.
You may of course add to the default set of panels displayed by Opera. In the dialog, four additional panels are available; Search, Links, Windows, and Info. You may also add Web pages as panels.
The links panel extracts all links in the current Web page so you can easily find images, music, video clips, zip files and other downloads, as well as links to other pages.
Example: Type "mp3" in the "Quick find" field to find all mp3 files on the page.
Tip: Click the "Lock" button to keep the current list of links even if you browse to other pages.
The info panel displays technical information about the current Web page.
The search panel contains search possibilities for various search engines and on-line services.
The windows panel contains a tree-structured, clickable view of your open pages and application windows. If you detach a page from the application window, you can merge it back by dragging it into the windows panel.
To show a Web page in a panel, bookmark the page by pressing Ctrl + T and select to show it as a panel.
Some Web pages provide special links (rel="sidebar") that make it easy to add Web pages as panels.
Example: Create panel with table of contents for Opera help
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