Using the Internet Safely For Seniors

Add a Web Site to Favorites

1. Open Internet Explorer, type the address of a Web site that
   you want to add to your Favorites list, and then press
   Enter.(In the Firefox browser, favorites are called book-
   marks,but they operate in the same way.)

2.Click the Add to Favoritesbutton and then choose Add to

Favorites.

3.In the resulting Add a Favorite dialog box, as shown in

Figure 4-8, you can modify the name of the Favorite list-

ing to something easily recognizable, or leave it as is.

Figure 4-8

When you want to return to a site you’ve saved as a favorite, click the

Favorites Centerbutton and then click the site you want to visit in the

list that’s displayed. (See Figure 4-9.)

Regularly cleaning out your Favorites list is a good

idea — after all, do you really need the sites that you

used to plan last year’s vacation? With the Favorites

Center displayed, right-click any item and then choose

Deleteto remove a URL from your favorites listing.

You can keep the Favorites Center as a side pane in

Internet Explorer 7 by displaying it and then clicking

the Pin the Favorites Centerbutton (the left-facing

green arrow located to the right of the History button).

Assign a name to a Favorite

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Part II: Using the Internet While Dodging the Risk