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Opera's panels, enabled with F4, gives you quick access to your bookmarks, contacts, messages, and much more.
Operation | How to do it |
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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 |
Remove panel | Hide panel pointed to with mouse |
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Edit panel | Edit panel properties (Web panels only) |
Start | Show panel where you can start working with Opera |
Bookmarks | Organize bookmarks to your favorite Web sites |
Read, write, and organize e-mail and news | |
Contacts | Organize your list of contacts |
Chat | Join chat rooms on the Internet and talk to people |
History | Keep track of all recently visited Web pages |
Transfer | Monitor file transfers |
Links | View all links in Web page |
Windows | Organize all your open pages and application windows |
Info | Display technical information about Web sites |
Notes | Write to do lists and manage clipboard |
Add panel | Make a panel for current Web page |
Get panels | Download panels from MyOpera |
Placement » | Decide where the panels should be displayed |
Customize toolbars | Go to dialog where you can reconfigure the entire user interface |
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.
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 |
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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 |
Press Alt + Enter to:
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Create contacts and store your friends' e-mail address, telephone number, and postal address.
Operation | How to do it |
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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 |
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.
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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.
The Windows panel displays a tree-structured view of your open pages and application windows.
Operation | How to do it |
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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 |
Opera's Transfers panel lets you monitor and control files being transferred between your computer and the Internet.
Operation | How to do it |
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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.
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 |
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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 |
The Info panel displays technical information about the current Web page.
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
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