Because of the enormous mass of information to be found on the Internet, it is of advantage to use simple, yet sophisticated programs for navigation. World Wide Web technology helps to some extent here, and Opera Software takes full advantage of that.
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Using Opera the same task can often be performed quicker and in a variety of ways. As your skills develop, you will find faster and more suitable ways of operation. You can navigate using the keyboard and context sensitive menus as well as the traditional 'point-and-click' method. In addition Opera has a very sophisticated address list for rapid access to your most-used documents.
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<A HREF="#navdoc"><B>Navigation in documents</B></A>
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<A HREF="#navhis"><B>Navigation within history</B></A>
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<A HREF="#direct"><B>Direct Addressing</B></A>
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<A HREF="#hotlist"><B>Address lists</B></A>
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<B>General</B>
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In Opera you navigate by clicking on so-called links within documents. These links can be either text or graphics. Text links can be displayed in the style you choose, but it is usual for them to be shown in a different colour or sometimes with a border. Graphical links should have a border round them. When the mouse pointer is over a link, it changes to a hand.
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You can also use the keyboard to navigate. Hold down the Ctrl key, and use the Up and Down arrow keys to select links. The chosen link will be displayed in a different colour with a different background. When you move to a link which points to a document you wish to retrieve, press the Return key.
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<B>To open a link in a new window</B>
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Hold down the Shift key while clicking or pressing enter.
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<B>Graphics with a variety of active areas (imagemaps)</B>
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On the World Wide Web you will find more and more graphics with active points or fields -- so-called imagemaps. Depending where you click on a graphic, different documents will be retrieved. The active points are often marked in some way on the graphic. There is no rule as to how they will be marked.
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You click on these active points exactly as you would click on a normal graphical link within a document. You <U>must</U> use the mouse pointer for this, not the keyboard, since different positions will give different results.
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<B>How to cancel a data transfer</B>
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Occasionally it can take a long time to load a document - and sometimes you may discover that you are not really interested in the file you have begun to retrieve. You can cancel it in a variety of ways.
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Click on the <FONT COLOR=#ff0000><B>red</B></FONT> STOP button at the bottom of the document window.
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Choose 'Stop' from the Navigate menu.
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Choose 'Stop' from the context sensitive default menu.
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Press the ESC key on the keyboard.
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Browse in history the 'yellow arrow' buttons on the toolbar.
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Click on a link in the document and retrieve the document connected to the link.
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<A NAME="navhis"><FONT SIZE="5">Navigation in history</FONT></A>
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Opera remembers the documents you have visited in the correct order, so that you can easily re-visit places you have just been to. If you wish to go back to the last read page -- or several previous pages -- press on the left arrow in the button bar. The right arrow will move you forward again.
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You can equally well move backwards and forwards in the history list by holding down the Ctrl key and using the Right and Left arrow keys.
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You can also jump directly to a particular point in the history list by clicking on the list at the bottom of the document window, and choosing an address there.
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From time to time you will either be sent, or read about web addresses on the InternetInternett. These addresses have a special format, e.g. 'http://opera.nta.no/opera' . All the documents on the World Wide Web use a similar style of addressing. You can find documents by navigating round links, so long as you know which home page to start from. You can also search using keywords in some of the search system databases.Internett (See http://opera.nta.no/opera to be linked to such a database.) So long as you know the address of a document you can type it in and go directly to the document.
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You can write addresses in two places within Opera. In the dialog box '<A HREF="dialogs.htm#direct">Direct Addressing</A>" (also accessible via <B>F2</B>) and in the history list at the bottom of the document window. When you have typed in the address, press Return. Take care that you have typed the address without spaces, and remember that there is a difference between capital and small letters. Internet addresses often only use small letters for simplicity's sake, but don't rely on this.
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<A NAME="hotlist"><FONT SIZE="5">The Hot list</FONT></A>
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The hot list is a powerful tool. You can type into the list the addresses of sources you will use again, so that you can find them quickly and easily again.
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You can decide yourself how sophisticated a list you will have, The simplest way is to use the button on the button bar, the one that is showing a book. When you click on this, you will see a list of the addresses in the active list (You will find more on that later). You can in this way choose one of the addresses. The address will be loaded into the active window, or to a different window if the active window is already occupied. You can also set up Opera so that any selection from the address list will automatically be displayed in a new window. You do this under the option <A HREF="prefmenu.htm#generic">Generic preferences</A> in the Preferences menu.
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The simplest way to put an address in the address list is to choose 'Add Active to List' in the 'Navigation' menu. The shortcut for this action is <B>Ctrl-T</B>.
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You will gradually find that an address list becomes somewhat long, and that it will be better to divide it up. For this reason we have the option for an hierarchical address list within Opera. This is displayed when you choose 'Address List' from the 'Navigate' menu, or if you hold down the <B>Ctrl</B> key and press <B>F2</B>.
