Search Box Shortcuts Exist!
Dugie clued me up on the .lnk technique, which looks pretty cool, but I wondered if there was an easy, shortcutty way to use the search box in IE7 (now I've got my provider ducks in a line)...
Looks like it's in the help! (slightly consolidated)
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To do this |
Press this |
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Go to the Toolbar Search box |
CTRL+E |
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Open your search query in a new tab |
ALT+ENTER |
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Open the search provider menu |
CTRL+DOWN ARROW |
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Select the text in the Address bar |
ALT+D |
Yaaay!
Why not stick with .URLs or .LNKs? I love it, but it's a customization I'd have to recreate on every computer I ever used. And I tend to use a lot of computers!
Some things - like putting Notepad in the Send To menu - are definitely worth spending the time on. But every customization has a cost, and sometimes it's cheaper to invest the five minutes in learning a new shortcut. (Er, and then the twenty-seven minutes in blogging it).
