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Managing Your Favorites Efficiently

• Creating A New Favorites Folder
• Adding To Favorites
• Deleting Favorites
• Moving Your Favorites To Another Computer

1. Select the "Favorites" sub-menu with your mouse, or press "ALT-A".
   
   
2. Now select "Organize Favorites" from this menu. The Organize Favorites dialog box has now appeared.
   
   
3. From this box you can add and remove folders, sort your favorites, and do anything else needed to manage favorites. The Move button allows you to move your favorites to another directory. The Rename button will let you change the name of the Favorite you selected. The Delete button will delete the favorite you have selected.
   

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Creating A New Favorites Folder

1. To create a new folder for your favorites, go to the Organize Favorites dialog box again by clicking Favorites and then selecting "Organize Favorites".
   
   
2. In this box, a button is located in the upper-right that will allow you to create a new folder (This button has been circled in red in the figure below). Click this button and a new folder will appear.
   
   
3. The default name of this folder is "New Folder". Change the name by typing a new name when the "New Folder" text is highlighted. You can always change a file or folder name by clicking on the file or folder one time. Then click the right mouse button and select Rename.

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Adding To Favorites

1. When you are at a Web Site that you would like to add to your Favorites, go up to the "Favorites" menu item and click on "Add To Favorites". This will bring up a dialog box in which you can change the name of the favorite.
   
   
2. Click "OK" and the favorite is added to your current favorites list. A shortcut to bring up the dialog box is to press and hold "ALT" and then press and hold "A". Hold both until the Add To Favorites dialog box appears.

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Deleting Favorites

1. From the Organize Favorites dialog box, select the favorite that you wish to delete by clicking once on it. Now three buttons have lit up just below the listing of your favorites.
   
   
2. Click the Delete button and it will ask you to confirm whether or not you really want to delete it. Click yes if you want to delete the Favorite you've selected.

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Moving or Copying Your Favorites To Another Computer

1. Using your file management program (Windows Explorer, File Manager...etc) open the directory where your Internet Explorer Favorites directory is located.
   
   
2. Copy these sub-directories files to a diskette and take them to the computer on which you wish to use your favorites.
   
   
3. On that computer open up Internet Explorer and the Organize Favorites dialog box.
   
   
4. From the Organize Favorites dialog box, click on the arrow next to the "Folder" box. Scroll upward to select the drive your favorites are currently in (if it is on your diskette, make sure you select the floppy drive).
   
   
5. Click on this directory to open the file listing in the favorites box. Now your favorites are selectable from this computer!

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