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Using panels

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Introduction

Opera's panels, enabled with F4, gives you quick access to your bookmarks, contacts, messages, and much more.

Operation How to do it
Display generic multiple choice menu Right-click the panel header
Display specific multiple choice menu Right-click list items in a particular panel
Display panel in compact mode Single-click respective panel header
Display panel in full mode Double-click respective panel header

Start

The start panel is a nice and clean page where you can "get started" with Opera.

Here you can easily go to Web pages, search the Web, and do instant text searches in all your messages.

Bookmarks

Opera comes with many bookmarks to popular sites already installed. You may add as many additional bookmarks as you wish.

Operation How to do it
Create bookmark for active Web page Drag page icon from Address bar to Bookmarks panel (or press Ctrl + T)
Open bookmark in active page Double-click bookmark
Open bookmark in new page Press Shift and double-click the bookmark (or middle-click the bookmark)
Open bookmark in the background Press Ctrl + Shift and double-click the bookmark
Put bookmarks available at all times Drag bookmarks to Personal bar
Find bookmark Enter text to search for in "Quick find" field
Create folder to organize bookmarks Click "New folder"
Open all bookmarks in selected folder Drag bookmark folder to Opera's workspace
Move bookmarks and folders around Drag and drop items
Sort your bookmarks Click "View"
Fast access to bookmark Press Shift + F2 and enter nickname
Manage bookmarks Press Ctrl + Alt + B

Bookmark properties

Press Alt + Enter to:

Mail

Read about Opera's news and e-mail client

Contacts

Create contacts and store your friends' e-mail address, telephone number, and postal address.

Operation How to do it
Create new contact Click "Add"
Create folder for group of contacts Click "New folder"
Recognize sender of e-mail as new contact Press A while viewing e-mail
Show messages associated with contact Double-click contact
Make contact available at all times Drag contact to Personal bar

Contact properties

Press Alt + Enter to:

Tip: If you type the word "party" in the Notes field of your coolest friends, you can later type "party" in the Quickfind field to find all those people, then drag and drop them into an e-mail to send a party invitation.

Chat

Read about Opera's chat client

History

Opera's History panel keeps a list of Web pages you have visited recently. In Opera's History and cache preferences, you may choose how many addresses to keep track of.

Tip: If you recall having visited a nice site, but forgot to bookmark it, use the "Find" field in the History panel to locate it.

The Links panel extracts all links in the current Web page so you can easily find images, music, video clips, zip files and other interesting downloads.

Example: Type "mp3" in Quickfind to find all mp3 files on the page.

Tip: Click the "Lock" button to keep the current list of links even if you browse to other pages.

Windows

The Windows panel displays a tree-structured view of your open pages and application windows.

Operation How to do it
Create application windows Ctrl + Alt + N
Create page tabs in current window Ctrl + N
Re-arrange your windows and tabs Use drag and drop
Delete selected item Press Delete
Further window options Right-click the tree

Transfers

Opera's Transfers panel lets you monitor and control files being transferred between your computer and the Internet.

Operation How to do it
Download file linked to in a Web page Click link to file in the Web page or drag the link to the "Quick download" field
Download file Enter file address in the "Quick download" field
Resume transfer of selected files Click "Resume"
Stop transfer of selected files Click "Stop"
Transfer selected file again Click "Retransfer"
Sort list of files Click column headers

Note: Not all Web sites support resuming of file transfers.

Notes

The Notes panel can serve as a clipboard manager, a todo list, and other means of remembering multiple strings of text.

Operation How to do it
Write a new note Click "New note"
Organize notes into folders Click "New folder"
Take notes from a Web page Mark text in page, then press Ctrl + Shift + C
Paste clipboard into note Press Ctrl + Shift + V
Search the Web for contents in note Drag note to search field and press Enter
Delete a note to Trash Click note and press Delete
Undelete a note from Trash Open Trash and drag note out of Trash
Organize notes and folders Use drag and drop

Info

The Info panel displays technical information about the current Web page.

Web panels

To show a Web page in a panel, bookmark the page by pressing Ctrl + T and select to show it as a panel.

Some Web pages provide special links (rel="sidebar") that make it easy to add Web pages as panels.

Example: Create panel with table of contents for Opera help