Internet Explorer 6
Managing Favorites
Managing your Favorites can make it easier to locate a favorite site when you need it. To improve the organization of your Favorites you can:
Renaming a Favorite
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From the Favorites menu, select Organize Favorites...
The Organize Favorites dialog box appears.
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Select the Favorite that you want to rename
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Click RENAME
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Type the new name
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Press [Enter]
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Click CLOSE
Deleting a Favorite
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From the Favorites menu, select Organize Favorites...
The Organize Favorites dialog box appears. -
Select the Favorite that you want to delete
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Click DELETE
A confirmation dialog box appears. -
To confirm, click YES
To cancel, click NO
NOTE: Deleting the Favorite will send it to the Recycle Bin. -
Click CLOSE
Creating a Folder for Favorites
If you want to group similar Favorites together based on a research project, course, or other relationship, you can create a folder for the Favorites. To do this:
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From the Favorites menu, select Organize Favorites...
The Organize Favorites dialog box appears. -
Click CREATE FOLDER
A new folder appears. -
Type the name of the folder
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Click CLOSE
Rearranging Favorites
Favorites will appear in alphabetical order with folders appearing first. If the folder is actually a shortcut to the real folder, it will be placed alphabetically within the Favorites.
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From the Favorites menu, select Organize Favorites...
The Organize Favorites dialog box appears. -
Select the Favorite or folder of Favorites that you want to move
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Click MOVE TO FOLDER
The Browse for Folder dialog box appears. -
Select the folder that you want the Favorite to be located in
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Click OK
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Click CLOSE
WARNING: Do not edit a Favorites file created by Internet Explorer in any word processor. Even opening the document in a word processor may corrupt the hypertext mark-up language which created the Favorites unless you save it as Text Only. If you want to view or copy URLs in a Favorites file, open it in an ASCII editor like Windows Notepad or the DOS Editor or TeachText for the Macintosh.
