The IE 4
Toolbar  (August 1998).iso/full/W98Comp/IFace/Tlb-anim.gif)
 (August 1998).iso/full/W98Comp/showme.gif) The IE 4toolbar incorporates
one-click buttons for the most important
browser functions. It also contains the
address bar, where you can type in the
URL (address) of the web page you want to
view. To see all the buttons on an
800X600 display you'll need to drag the
sizing control to the left, covering up
the address bar.
Alternatively, you
can drag the sizing control downwards to
create separate, full-width address and
toolbars, like this.
Click on the image
above to see more details on IE 4's
address and tool bars, or choose a topic
from the list below, or just read on down
the page.
The Address Bar
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The address bar
enables you to type in the URL (address)
of a web page you want to browse. You may
not have to use it too often, as you'll
arrive at most pages via hyperlinks from
other pages, and you can save the URLs of
regularly-visited pages as IE Favorites.
Tips for using
the address bar:
- When typing
URLs there's no need to type the
'http://' part, as IE will insert
it for you.
- You can use
the clipboard to paste URLs
you've cut from other programs -
such as a word processor.
- Clicking on
the box arrow at the right-hand
end of the address bar opens a
drop-down list of
recently-visited sites
- AutoComplete
- IE checks what you're typing
against URLs you've visited, and
automatically inserts a suggested
address. If it's the one you
want, press [Enter]. If it's not,
keep on typing.
Search - if you're
not sure of a web site's URL, try typing find
sitename in the address bar (for
example find microsoft). IE will
look on the Web for likely URLs (e.g.
www.microsoft.com, www.microsoft.org). If
it can't find a site, it will offer you
the option to perform a keyword search
instead.
Toolbar - Navigation
Buttons
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The Back and
Forward buttons propel you through Web
pages you've visited in your current
browsing session, while the Home button
provides a one-click jump to any Web page
you choose to call 'home' (see Setting IE 4 Options for details of how to
choose your home page). The Stop button
tells the browser to stop downloading the
current page - handy if you decide not to
wait for that mammoth graphic image to
appear (moving to a different page also
stops the current page download). The
Refresh button tells IE to re-download
the current page.
Back/Forward
button drop-down menus.
Clicking the down-arrow to the
right of the Back or Forward
button produces a drop-down menu
of items from the history list.
You can go directly to any item.
Toolbar - The
Explorer Bar Buttons
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These
buttons select the new Explorer Bar, a
frame which opens on the left-hand side
of the browser window. Clicking a button
either opens the Explorer Bar, or
replaces its current contents. Clicking
on the currently-selected button
('History' in the example above) closes
the Explorer Bar.
The Explorer bar
options are:
- Search. Opens
a search page to one of the Web's
search engine sites (e.g. Yahoo,
Alta Vista). The results are
displayed as hyperlinks in the
Explorer Bar, and you can view
the linked sites in the main
browser window.
- Favorites.
Shows the contents of your Favorites folder in the
Explorer Bar. Clicking on a
Favorite opens the relevant page
in the main browser window.
- History.
Shows the history list in the
Explorer Bar. Unlike the
Back/Forward drop-down menus,
this isn't just the history of
your current browser session -
you see previous entries as well.
Pages are organised by site,
rather than in chronological
order.
- Channels.
This shows content channels
you're subscribed to, as well as
Microsoft's channel guide. See Channels for more details.
For more
information on the Explorer bar, see The
Explorer Bar In Detail.
Toolbar
- Extra Buttons
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These buttons
perform the following miscellaneous - but
very important - functions:
Print. Prints
the current document. Beware if
you've got a Fax printer
installed! By default, your page
background (or background colour)
isn't printed - if you want to
print it, choose View..Options...
from the IE menu bar, then click
the Advanced tab, scroll down to
'Printing' and check 'Print
background colors and images'. To
select a printer, or adjust paper
size and print quality, choose File..Page
Setup from the IE menu bar.
- Font. Most
Web pages enable you to choose
the size at which their text is
displayed - bigger to make it
easier to read, smaller to cram
more onto the screen. IE4's new
menu-based system is much easier
to navigate than IE3's.
Mail. This
opens the mail menu. Clicking on
either Read Mail or Read
News opens Outlook Express,
IE 4's new combined
Mail/Newsgroup client. Send a
Link creates a new email
message with the URL of the
current Web page, for you to send
to someone else. Send Page
creates a new email message with
the Web document itself (not
just its URL) as an attachment.
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