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Instead of opening Internet Explorer, going to your favorites, and then clicking on the page you want..you can just have a shortcut to the page on your desktop.

Go to your favorites list in internet explorer.
Choose which page you want. Don't click on it just select it. (make it blue)
Then click your right button on your mouse. (right click)
A menu will appear and then choose create a shortcut. This will put it on your desktop.

Change the text size you are viewing in Internet Explorer

When viewing web pages in your browser the text size may not be suitable for you. This is easily changed.

Select View on the menu bar found at the top of the browser. From the drop-down menu select Text Size and another menu opens.
This menu has five options: largest, larger, medium, smaller and smallest. One of them is identified as the current option.
Select a size that moves the text size in the direction you desire and all body text on the current web page is accordingly adjusted.

Another way is to hold the Alt key and scroll in and out with you mouse scroller.

Save a webpage you are viewing to your favorites list.

Go to the menu at the top of Internet Explorer. Choose Favorites.

Then choose Add to favorites. That's it.

Also

While viewing an Internet web page with your Internet Explorer browser press Alt and D together, and the link for the page is added to your favorites list.

If you get a message that says 'Are you sure you want to remove folder xxxx', it means your favorites window is active.

Click anywhere on the web page itself and try again. The web page link is stored even if your favorites list is not displayed.

To display your favorites, click the 'Favorites' button on the standard toolbar and then on the left side of your browser.

Some of my favorite keyboard shortcuts for Internet Explorer

Use the Backspace button to go back to the previous page
Alt+Home buttons pressed at the same time go to the home page of the website you are viewing
Press F5 to refresh the webpage you are viewing
Ctrl+N to open a new browser window (applies to Frontpage too)
The F11 key changes your page to a full-screen view. Press it again to change it back.
Press Ctrl+P keys to send the print command for current whole page.
Ctrl+H keys pressed together open your internet history.
Press Ctrl+w or Alt+F4 keys to close the current browser window.
Esc button to stop any page browsing.

Give it a go

Quick Tip: Make sure you have an Internet Explorer window open for some of these to work. Some of these shortcuts apply to other programs as well.

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