Dear dear Robert, I bow before thee. (better than slaping myself)

You will probably read two consecutive post of mine, the first obviously
points out how poorly I've been reading replies, I need to improve myself on
that matter, those little prompt like arrows, single double and so on to the
left confuse me to what is the most recent reply.

You actually explained it all in details for me, and silly me had to find it
by trial and error. One thing puzzles me is that the point and TAB still
works for me. Probably because I've upgraded IE6 to IE7.

If you don't see a previous post of mine replying to you from today (which
while I'm writing the current one hasn't show up yet in the thread) then the
better, I did get an error after clicking Post so maybe I'll call it: Saved
by a glitch

Many thanks for your help.

BTW I still wish MS will implement a nice point and click from the Address
drop down list to open a new tab with IE8




"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:

> "DimkoD" <DimkoD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:159428FE-8772-432C-A23A-4ABCA024D813@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks for your patience,
> >
> > 1. I'm pointing and clicking on the down arrow to the right of the address
> > bar.
>
>
> That is the TypedURLs dropdown.
>
>
> > 2. The address bar drop down list opens.
> > 3.There is one address in the address bar which I call the "current", I point
> > to a different address the "new" one below the "current" address somewhere
> > down the list.
>
> > 4.Clicking that address causes the "current" tab content to be replaced with
> > the "new"
> > content and I lose the "current" content.
>
>
> Error. (I said "don't click".)
>
>
> > 5.If I don't click the "new" address but while pointing on it I press
> > Alt+Enter I get a new tab but it's a "current" tab too.
>
>
> Error. (Does that get the selected item into the Address bar?)
>
>
> > I now have tow
> > "current" tabs side by side, just pointing on an address from the drop down
> > list with the mouse pointer doesn't cause it to become the new tab while I
> > pree Alt+Enter.
>
>
> Because you didn't put the target into the Address bar first.
>
>
> >
> > May be you have suggested something different in your reply which I didn't
> > understand.
>
>
> Correct.
>
>
> >>>> You have to let the Address go into the Address bar
> >>>> then press Alt-Enter.
>
>
> IE7 has made this even more awkward than it used to be.
> With IE6 we could just press Tab and the selected entry
> would go into the Address bar. (Actually I can't remember
> if pressing F4 would have been enough to copy an item into
> the Address bar at that point or not. Evidently with IE7 it is
> not enough.)
>
> In IE7 you can use the mouse to make your selection
> but you can't do anything else with just that item directly.
> E.g. pressing CursorUp and then CursorDown would effect
> a copy into the Address bar of the one you selected.
> Simpler just to cursor down I think--there are at most 25 entries. ; )
>
>
> Robert
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