Version 5.0 of Internet Explorer is faster than 4.0 in displaying web pages and has some handy features to help you search the Web. You can browse the Web, save Web pages easily for offline reading, download software, and send e-mail and read the messages in Usenet newsgroups. With skill in using just a handful of Explorer's features, you will be able to navigate the Internet easily and comfortably.

Address Bar - The Address Bar displays the address of the document you are reading. The address is called a URL or Uniform Resource Locator. You can enter new URLs in this space to take you to new places.

History of where you have been - Explorer keeps track of the pages you have visited in the current session. You may view the names of these pages by clicking on the History button in the Toolbar. A click on an earlier page will return you to that display. Explorer also keeps a history over several days of sites you have visited. Once you have been surfing the Web for a while and frequent a site more than once, Explorer will use a feature called AutoComplete. This means that when you begin to type a URL you have been to before Explorer will show a drop-down list of sites that you can choose from.

Explorer's Favorites is an easy way to save an address so that you can return to it quickly.

Printing - Internet Explorer is very versatile. You can print the page as you see it, portions of text from the document, selected pages from the document, pages linked to that page and more.

Select File then Print and review the options.

• As laid out on screen
• Only the selected frame
• All frames individually (option is not recommended)
• Selection: Prints highlighted text on a page.
• Print all linked documents: Prints the currently displayed page and the hyperlinked pages. Use this option with caution - you may end up printing more linked pages than you want. A better option is to print a table of the documents linked to the current page.
• Print table of links: Lists links on that page. Can be a handy reference.

Help - Explorer comes with good help material.
Click on Help at the far right of the Menu Bar to see the drop-down menu.

• Contents and Index is always available to you as a quick summary and alphabetical index to the major topics.
• Tour: Go to Microsoft for a graphic tour of Internet Explorer