Section 9.3. Favorites (Bookmarks)

9.3. Favorites (Bookmarks)

When you find a Web page you might like to visit again, press Ctrl+D. That's the Add to Favorites command. (The long way is to click the Add to Favorites button identified in Figure 9-5.) Type a shorter or more memorable name , if you like, and click Add.

Figure 9-5. Top: When you want to flag a Web page for visiting later, using this menu is one way to do it. Bottom: Internet Explorer offers to add this Web page's name (or a shorter name that you specify for it) either to the Favorites menu itself, or to a "folder" (category) within that menu. The next time you want to visit that page, just select its name from the star-shaped menu at the top left of the window.

The Web page's name appears instantly in the "Favorites center," which is the menu indicated by the yellow star (Figure 9-5). The next time you want to visit that page, open this menuor press Alt+Cand click the Web site's name in the list.

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Tip: You can send your list of Favorites to or from other browsers or other PCs, which can save you a lot of time.To do that, open the Add to Favorites menu (Figure 9-5); choose Import and Export. The Import/Export wizard appears to guide you through the process. Consider saving them onto, for example, a flash drive, for ease in transporting to another location or computer.

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You can rearrange the commands in your Favorites menu easily enough. Open the Favorites center (Figure 9-6), and then drag the bookmarks up and down in the list.

Figure 9-6. When the Favorites menu opens, you can drag names up or down to rearrange the list, as shown. Or right-click one to access the commands that rename, delete, or file a favorite into a folder. (Unfortunately, the Favorites menu covers up part of the Web page you're reading. It hides itself soon enough, but you might also want to freeze the Favorites Center open so that it doesn't cover the page. To do that, click the Pin the Favorites Center button shown here.)

Or, for more elaborate organizing taskscreating and deleting folders, renaming sites, and so onclick the Add to Favorites button (Figure 9-5) and, from the shortcut menu, choose Organize Favorites. You get a little dialog box that makes all of those tasks easy.