Ken Blake wrote:
> "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
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>
>> You're talking about Internet Explorer? Quite a while back, with
>> an early version of IE5, you could just type in "Microsoft" and
>> it would take you to microsoft.com. If there wasn't any such
>> thing, then it would try microsoft.org, and a couple of others.
>> However, that facility is long gone. What you now get, if you
>> don't put .com (or .org, etc.) is a search page.
>
>
> However one can type just Microsoft, and press Ctrl-Enter instead of
> just Enter. That adds www. at the beginning and .com at the end.
>
>
> "Cynanthis" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:%23%23deZ5O5HHA.1164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> I know windows has short cut so that you dont have to type .com at
>> the end.
>> Instead one can do something else but i can remember what that is. I
>> looked
>> in the help section but cant find it or maybe i missed it there. If
>> someone
>> has it, plez pass it on to me.. thanks in advance
Select the text in the Address bar ALT+D
Display a list of addresses you've typed F4
When in the Address bar, move the cursor left to the next logical
break in the address (period or slash)
CTRL+LEFT ARROW
When in the Address bar, move the cursor right to the next logical
break in the address (period or slash)
CTRL+RIGHT ARROW
Add "www." to the beginning and ".com" to the end of the text typed in
the Address bar
CTRL+ENTER
Move forward through the list of AutoComplete matches
UP ARROW
Move back through the list of AutoComplete matches DOWN ARROW
Yeah, Lu Powell pointed that out. Can't believe I've gone all these years
without knowing that one. Now I just have to retrain myself. I still
occasionally try to use just microsoft, absent-mindedly hitting Enter before
finishing it, so maybe it won't be that hard.
"Ken Blake" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
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> "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
> news:OEZrCDP5HHA.1212@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>
>>You're talking about Internet Explorer? Quite a while back, with
>> an early version of IE5, you could just type in "Microsoft" and
>> it would take you to microsoft.com. If there wasn't any such
>> thing, then it would try microsoft.org, and a couple of others.
>> However, that facility is long gone. What you now get, if you
>> don't put .com (or .org, etc.) is a search page.
>
>
> However one can type just Microsoft, and press Ctrl-Enter instead of just
> Enter. That adds www. at the beginning and .com at the end.
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
> "Cynanthis" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:%23%23deZ5O5HHA.1164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>I know windows has short cut so that you dont have to type .com at the
>>end.
>> Instead one can do something else but i can remember what that is. I
>> looked
>> in the help section but cant find it or maybe i missed it there. If
>> someone
>> has it, plez pass it on to me.. thanks in advance
>>
>>
>
>
"Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
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> Yeah, Lu Powell pointed that out.
Yes, I saw that message just after I posted my own. Sorry for the
duplication.
> Can't believe I've gone all these years without knowing that one. Now I
> just have to retrain myself. I still occasionally try to use just
> microsoft, absent-mindedly hitting Enter before finishing it, so maybe it
> won't be that hard.
LOL! I don't use IE directly, but run it with the Maxthon shell on top of
it. One of Maxthon's enhancement's to plain IE is in this very area. Besides
Ctrl-Enter, there is also Shift-Enter, which adds www. and .net, and
Ctrl-Shift-Enter, which adds www. and .org. I don't have any trouble
remembering Ctrl-Enter, but I constantly mix up the other two.
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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"Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
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> Then I should point out that I also just learned from another that IE in
> WinXP SP2 is versioned "IE6 SP2". Go figure. I always thought IE6 SP1 was
> the end of the line.
>
> --
> Gary S. Terhune
> MS-MVP Shell/User
> www.grystmill.com
>
Change website address suffix* Tools > Internet Options > Languages
* For example, if you chose "net" for the website suffix, pressing
CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER would add "http://www." to the beginning and ".net" to the
end of the address in the Address Bar.
Re: .com short cut 
Linear Mode
