PC Help Wincanton

12/10/2026

Pin your favourite tabs to save space on your tab bar without losing quick access to your favourite pages.

To Pin a tab, right-click any open tab and select Pin Tab. The tab shrinks to show just the page icon.

Pinned tabs are preserved across browser restarts, so your pinned tab will stay in your tab bar permanently (unless you specifically choose to close the tab).

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05/10/2026

In most web browsers you can press Alt-← (Alt left-arrow) to go back to the page you were last viewing. Press Alt-← again to go back further through your browsing session, re-tracing your steps. At any point, you can instead press Alt-→ (Alt right-arrow) to go forward, re-doing those same steps again.

On the Mac, try Command-← and Command-→.

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28/09/2026

Here's one of our simplest yet most useful tips: did you know that you can press Ctrl+F to open the "Find" box to search for text in any web page you are reading? So much quicker and more accurate than scrolling to where you think you remember seeing the text.

On the Mac, you press Command-F.

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21/09/2026

When entering an Internet address, you do not need to type http:// or even www in the address. For example, if you wanted to visit Google, you could type google.com and press Enter. To make things even quicker, if you are visiting a .com address you can type google and then press Ctrl+Enter to type out the full https://www.google.com address.

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14/09/2026

In your web browser, if you want to open any link in its own new tab, press your middle mouse button to open that link in a new tab.

The mouse's scroll wheel often doubles as its middle button. Just press it straight down instead of rolling it.

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07/09/2026

Ever been on a web page you know you're going to want to visit again? To save your current web page to your browser's bookmarks (or "favourites", they're the same thing), just press Ctrl-D.

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We can repair, install & upgrade a variety of devices in Wincanton. This includes PCs, Macs, laptops, smartphones, tablets, printers, & more.

31/08/2026

You can move quickly between open tabs in your web browser by holding down the Ctrl key and typing Tab. Holding down the Shift key also (so, Ctrl + Shift + Tab) reverses direction.

(The Tab key is the one above the Caps Lock key on most UK keyboards).

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24/08/2026

In web browsers (and a few other apps), pressing the F11 key makes the page you're looking at take up the full screen. No toolbars, status bars or title bars. Typing F11 again restores the previous layout.

(On smaller keyboards you may have to hold down the Fn key to enable F11).

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17/08/2026

When you're browsing the web, pressing Ctrl and + (plus symbol) increases the font size. Pressing Ctrl and - (minus symbol) decreases the font size. If you want to reset the font size back to the default, press Ctrl and 0. On the Mac, use the Command key (aka "cloverleaf" or "propeller") instead of Ctrl.

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10/08/2026

Ever downloaded something from a web page and then not been able to find it a few minutes later? Perhaps you ended up just downloading it again. Next time, try pressing Ctrl + J (Command + J on the Mac). In most browsers, this will open a tab showing your downloaded files.

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We can repair, install & upgrade a variety of devices in Wincanton. This includes PCs, Macs, laptops, smartphones, tablets, printers, & more.