# Quick IE question.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-ie-question/32260>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 6, 2000, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-ie-question/32260 "2000-09-06T19:07:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-ie-question/32260/1 "2000-09-06T19:07:04Z")

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When you’re browsing, you can hit the backspace key to go back, instead of hitting the back button in the toolbar. Is there an equivalent keystroke to make you go forward?

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**Author:** ![Zumba\_The\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/779978/32.png) [@Zumba\_The\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zumba_The_Cat)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-ie-question/32260/2 "2000-09-06T19:16:36Z")

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Try holding down the Shift and Backspace keys at the same time. That seems to work on my IE.

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**Author:** ![Meephead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b782af/32.png) [@Meephead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meephead)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-ie-question/32260/3 "2000-09-06T19:17:54Z")

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ALT+right arrow is forward and ALT+left arrow is back

Works every time

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**Author:** ![Kyberneticist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-ie-question/32260/4 "2000-09-06T19:23:08Z")

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And the nice thing is, that alt- -\> and alt- \<- works in both IE and Netscape, like CTRL-r.  
Those being the main uses for that big annoying navigation toolbar, I turn it off in both browsers.

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**Author:** ![Zumba\_The\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/779978/32.png) [@Zumba\_The\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zumba_The_Cat)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-ie-question/32260/5 "2000-09-06T19:30:27Z")

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I was going to post to defend my method. But upon testing it I found that it didn’t work.

Backspace and Shift Backspace work in Internet Explorer but they don’t do a darn thing in Netscape.