How do you find a link?

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On Page 95 of the September 2006 issue of PC World there is a paragraph
entitled "Full Size Windows-Always" inside an article entitled: "Microsoft
Internet Explorer 6". About 3"-4" from the bottom of the right hand column
there is a sentance that says: "Right-Click any link, and Select 'Open in
New Window'."

I don't know how to find "any link". Actually in this case I don't exactly
know what a link looks like, I can't find anything that when right clicked
has an entry that says "Open in new window".

Can anybody help me?

Don J

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"any link" refers to any hyperlink. Hyperlinks are what your web browser, e-mail client and many other programs use to open web pages.

http://www.dougknox.com, http://www.microsoft.com and http://www.google.com are examples of hyperlinks. You may also find a plain word or phrase that is underlined, a different color and/or the mouse cursor changes when you hover over it. Underlying this "plain text" is the actual hyperlink.
 
Don said:
On Page 95 of the September 2006 issue of PC World there is a paragraph
entitled "Full Size Windows-Always" inside an article entitled: "Microsoft
Internet Explorer 6". About 3"-4" from the bottom of the right hand column
there is a sentance that says: "Right-Click any link, and Select 'Open in
New Window'."

I don't know how to find "any link". Actually in this case I don't exactly
know what a link looks like, I can't find anything that when right clicked
has an entry that says "Open in new window".

Can anybody help me?

Don J

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The default appearance for a "link" (short for "Hyperlink") is
underlined text. Note how the links like "3D Engine" appear at
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/features.html AND that SOME links just
scroll to another position on the same page. "Open in a new Window" is
the second item in the context menu that appears when you right click on
a link. In Internet Explorer the mouse pointer will turn into a pointing
hand when over a link.

The page author can override the default link appearance, as is done at
the Microsoft home page at http://www.microsoft.com/ , where you should
be able to get "Open in a new window" for the items in the navigation
menu in the left column.

The page author can also code a page to make links appear in a different
text color or change colors if the browser has recently displayed the
page that the link points to.
 
Don said:
On Page 95 of the September 2006 issue of PC World there is a
paragraph entitled "Full Size Windows-Always" inside an article
entitled: "Microsoft Internet Explorer 6". About 3"-4" from the
bottom of the right hand column there is a sentance that says:
"Right-Click any link, and Select 'Open in New Window'."

I don't know how to find "any link". Actually in this case I don't
exactly know what a link looks like, I can't find anything that when
right clicked has an entry that says "Open in new window".
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First, note that the word "link" is short for hyperlink.

Go to almost any web page, foe example www.microsoft.com. Move the mouse
cursor around the page, and notice that in some spots the arrow changes to a
hand with a pointing finger. When it does, it's pointing to a hyperlink; a
click on that hyperlink--that place on the page--will take you another page
(or place on the same page).

When you have that hand with a pointing finger, right-click, and you'll see
that one of the choices is "Open Link in New Window."
 
Thanx!

All of the resposes to my post are correct. But I found yours to be the
most useful.

Actually you may be interested in what the article said (It applies to Win
XP):

"To see a full; screen window every time (you open Internet Explorer), teach
IE this trick: Shut down all instances of IE, except one Right-click any
link, and select 'Open in new Window'. Close the original browser Window,
and resize the remaining Window manually by dragging each side as far as it
will go. (Don't click the Maximize button to do this.) Hold down the
'<Ctrl>' key and click the x at the top right of the page to close IE.
From now on, IE will open new windows full size."

It works great!

Don
J

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Don said:
Thanx!

All of the resposes to my post are correct. But I found yours to be
the most useful.
Click to expand...


You're welcome, and thank you for the kind words.

Actually you may be interested in what the article said (It applies
to Win XP):
Click to expand...


Thanks, I'm familiar with that technique. But personally I don't use IE
natively (I use it with the Maxthon shell,) and I prefer to almost never
have anything running full screen
 
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