# $ K > Welcome to Internet Explorer
Welcome to Internet Explorer! Click a button to find out more about the Internet and the World Wide Web.
{bmc smallbut.bmp} About the Internet
{bmc smallbut.bmp} About the World Wide Web
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# About the Internet
The Internet is a collection of networks that connect thousands of computers around the world, including the one on your desktop. The Internet is constantly changing and expanding. Since its creation in the 1960's, it has grown exponentially and is now used by millions of people, from commercial and educational institutions to individual consumers. 
Once you are connected to the Internet, you can use Internet Explorer to access a wealth of information on the World Wide Web. You can also download files from other computers on the Internet to your computer. 
{bmc onestep.bmp}	Click Learn About The Internet to find out how to navigate the Internet and the World Wide Web.

# About the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web makes it easy for people who are connected to the Internet to get information on a variety of topics that address a wide range of interests. Information is provided to the World Wide Web by people who write web pages. 
Pages are written using HTML (hypertext markup language) and contain hypermedia links to additional pages. These pages are stored on special computers on the Internet that are dedicated to providing information to the World Wide Web. For example, when you start Internet Explorer, a world wide web page appears that is stored on a world wide web computer at Microsoft.

# Exploring the World Wide Web
By using Internet Explorer, you can easily browse the world wide web to find the information you want by clicking the topics that interest you. The page you go to may exist on the same computer as the original page, or on another computer somewhere else in the world. 
You can see where a page comes from by looking at its address in the status bar. If you know the address for a particular page, you can go to it directly by typing it in the Address Bar.
{bmc onestep.bmp}	Click Explore The Internet and then click a topic to begin browsing the world wide web.

# $ K A To view a page
1	Click a blue underlined item or a graphic image.
2	To go back to the previous page, click Back on the View menu.
3	To go to the next page, click Forward on the View menu.
Tips
{bmc bullet.bmp}	You can speed up the time it takes to display a page by hiding any graphical images on the page. To do this, click Options on the View menu and then make sure that the Show Picture option is unchecked.
{bmc bullet.bmp}	You can go directly to any page by clicking Open on the File menu. 
{bmc bullet.bmp}	Internet Explorer keeps track of the pages you've viewed during this session and previous sessions. Pages you view during this session are added to the bottom of the File menu. To see pages you've viewed in previous sessions, click More History on the File menu.
{bmc bullet.bmp}	If you plan to view this page often, you might want to add it to your collection of favorite pages or create a shortcut to it on your desktop. To view a favorite page, on the Favorites menu, click the page you want.

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# $ K A To go to a specific page
1	On the File menu, click Open.
2	Type the address for the page you want to view or select it from the list.
3	Click Open in a New Window to display the page in a new window. Otherwise, click OK.
Tips
{bmc bullet.bmp}	You can speed up the time it takes to display a page by hiding any graphical images on the page. To do this, click Options on the View menu and then make sure that the Show Picture option is unchecked.
{bmc bullet.bmp}	You can also go directly to a page by typing its address in the Address Bar or by selecting an address from the list. If the address bar is not visible, click Address Bar on the View menu.
{bmc bullet.bmp}	Internet Explorer keeps track of the pages you've viewed during this session and previous sessions. Pages you view during this session are added to the bottom of the File menu. To see pages you've viewed in previous sessions, click More History on the File menu.
{bmc bullet.bmp}	If you plan to view this page often, you might want to add it to your collection of favorite pages or create a shortcut to it on your desktop. To view a favorite page, on the Favorites menu, click the page you want.

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# $ KA To see where you've been
1	Click the File menu. 
	Internet Explorer adds pages you view during this session to the bottom of the menu.You can go to a page by clicking it. 
2	For a complete list of all the pages you've viewed in all sessions, click More History. 
	You can go to a page that you viewed in a previous session by double-clicking it.
Tips
{bmc bullet.bmp}	You can specify how many pages Internet Explorer keeps track of by clicking Options on the View menu.
{bmc bullet.bmp}	To keep the History window from getting cluttered, you can organize the pages into folders.

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# $ K A To return to the home page
{bmc onestep.bmp}	Click the Open Home Base button on the toolbar.
Tips
{bmc bullet.bmp}	If you can't see the toolbar, click Toolbar on the View menu.
{bmc bullet.bmp}	You can change the page you use as your home page. 

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# $ K A To change your home page
1	View the page you want to use as your home page.
2	On the View menu, click Options.
3	Click the Home Base tab.
4	Click Use Current.
Tip
{bmc bullet.bmp}	You can use the default page (the page that appeared the first time you started Internet Explorer) by clicking Use Default.

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# $ K A To create a collection of favorite pages
1	View the page you want to add to your collection of favorite pages.
2	On the Favorites menu, click Add To Favorites.
3	Click Add.
Tips
{bmc bullet.bmp}	To help you keep track of your favorite pages, you can organize them into folders. 
{bmc bullet.bmp}	To store your page in a different folder, click the folder you want in the Folder list.

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# $ K A To organize pages into folders
1	On the File menu, click More History or, on the Favorites menu, click Open Favorites.
2	Create new folders to store shortcuts to your pages. 
3	Move the shortcuts to the appropriate folder.
Tip
{bmc bullet.bmp}	You might want to organize your pages by topic. For example, you could create a folder called "Art Pages" for storing pages that contain information about famous works of art and a folder called "Flying" for storing pages that contain information about famous aviators.

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# $ K A To create a shortcut to a page on your desktop
1	View the page you want to create a shortcut to.
2	On the File menu, click Create Shortcut.

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# $ K To save a page on your computer
1	On the File menu, click Save As.
2	Click the folder you want to save the page in.
3	Type a name for the page in the File Name box.

# $ K To search for information on a page
1	On the Edit menu, click Find.
2	Type the text you want to find.
3	Change any settings as needed.
4	Click Find Next.

# $ K To copy information from a page into a document
1	In the page that contains the information you want to copy, select the information by highlighting it.
	To copy the entire contents of a page, click Select All.
2	On the Edit menu, click Copy.
3	In the document where you want the information to appear, click where you want to place it.
4	On the Edit menu, click Paste.
Tip
{bmc bullet.bmp}	You can quickly copy information by selecting it and then dragging it into your document.

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# $ K To change options for displaying a page
1	On the View menu, click Options.
2	Change the Page, Shortcut, and Addresses settings as needed.
Tip
{bmc bullet.bmp}	For Help on an item, click {bmc cshelp.bmp} at the top of the dialog box, and then click the item.

# $ K To change the fonts used to display text on a page
1	On the View menu, point to Fonts.
2	Click the font size you want.

# $ K A To change the number of pages in the history
1	On the View menu, click Options.
2	Click Advanced.
3	In the History area, change the value for the number of pages Internet Explorer remembers.
Tips
{bmc bullet.bmp}	If you want to start with a fresh history list, click Empty. This deletes all the shortcuts in your current history folder.
{bmc bullet.bmp}	You can use a different folder to keep track of the pages you've viewed. To change the folder, click Change.
{bmc bullet.bmp}	For Help on an item, click {bmc cshelp.bmp} at the top of the dialog box, and then click the item.

# $ K K A To adjust the disk space used by Internet Explorer
1	On the View menu, click Options.
2	Click Advanced.
3	In the Cache area, adjust the slider to determine how much disk space is used to temporarily store the pages you are viewing.
Tips
{bmc bullet.bmp}	You can change the folder where pages are temporarily stored while you are viewing them by clicking Change. 
{bmc bullet.bmp}	You can delete the pages stored in the cache folder by clicking Empty.
{bmc bullet.bmp}	For Help on an item, click {bmc cshelp.bmp} at the top of the dialog box, and then click the item.

# $ K To associate files and protocols with Internet Explorer
1	On the View menu, click Options.
2	Click Advanced.
3	In the Mappings and Protocols area, click Edit.
4	Change the settings as needed.
Tip
{bmc bullet.bmp}	For Help on an item, click {bmc cshelp.bmp} at the top of the dialog box, and then click the item.

# $ K A To open a file 
1	On the File menu, click Open.
2	Click Open File.
3	Click the file you want from the list or type in the File Name box.
4	Click Open
	Internet Explorer displays the file in the window or, if the file is associated with a different application, it starts the application and opens the file.
Tip
{bmc bullet.bmp}	For Help on an item, click {bmc cshelp.bmp} at the top of the dialog box, and then click the item.

# $ K To view the source file for the current page
1	Use the right mouse button to click any where on the page.
2	Click View Source.
Tip
{bmc bullet.bmp}	You can make any changes you want to the source file. To see your changes on the page, click Refresh on the view menu.

# $ K To use a graphic image as desktop wallpaper
1	View the page that contains the image you want to use.
2	Use the right mouse button to click the image.
3	Click Use As Wallpaper.
Tip
{bmc bullet.bmp}	The wallpaper looks best if you tile it or stretch it.

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# An address to a web server typically starts with www, followed by the name of the organization that maintains the server, followed by a suffix that identifies the kind of organization it is. For example, "www.yale.edu" is the address to the web server at Yale University. The .edu suffix identifies Yale as an educational institution. Company server addresses generally end with ".com" and government server addresses generally end with ".gov". 
If the address goes to a specific page, then additional information, such as a port name, the name of the directory in which the page is located, and the name of the page file is included in the address. Because web pages are authored using the hypertext markup language, their filenames end with a .html extension. 

# {bmc back.bmp} The Back button as it appears on the 
toolbar.

# {bmc forward.bmp} The Forward button as it appears on 
the toolbar.

# {bmc home.bmp} The Open Home Base button as it 
appears on the toolbar.

# {bmc stop.bmp} The Stop button as it appears on the toolbar.