- [Instructor] Windows comes with a web browser,
which is known as Microsoft Edge.
You may have a shortcut for it in the taskbar.
But you should also be aware, if you go to the start menu
to the list of all apps, it is listed as Microsoft Edge.
So it's alphabetized under the letter M.
So I'm going to click on it to launch it from here.
And this is a web browser.
To start, we have the address bar up at the top.
You can click on that and type in the address of a website.
But here's a quick tip,
if your website address begins with www.,
you can actually skip that part
and type in the rest of the address.
So it's just a little bit faster.
So I'll type that in, hit the return key
and it loads that page.
Or if you don't know a specific address,
you can do a search instead.
I'll click on that address field again, delete what's there.
And if you type in something that is not the format
of a website address, it will just do a search.
So I could search for Antarctica,
and we get our search results here.
And this lets us work with links.
Usually a link is represented by blue text,
but a picture can be a link.
Basically if you point your mouse cursor at something,
and your cursor changes to this hand with a pointing finger,
then you know that it's a link.
You can click on it, and it loads a webpage.
And that's how we browse the web.
Go to a page or do a search,
then click on links and navigate around.
If you want to take a step back to the previous page,
you can click the back button up in the top left.
And this button with a circular arrow will reload the page.
So if you think the content might've changed
since you first loaded the page,
or if you just need to reset,
click that and it will reload.
If you want to have more than one webpage
open at a time, you can use tabs.
And up at the top, you can actually see
that I have two tabs and I can flip between them.
In some cases, when you click on a link,
like in a web search result,
it will open that link in a separate tab.
So they will both stay open.
If you want to open another new tab,
you can right click on a link
and choose open link in new tab. And now I have another one.
You could also click the plus button up here,
to open another tab.
And then you could navigate to a different page from here.
Or if you want to close a tab, just click the X.
But there's also another way to view tabs.
In the far left up here at the top,
you can click this tab actions button to open this menu,
and you can turn on vertical tabs.
So now my tabs are visible over here,
and I can click on whichever one I want to see.
You can click this little arrow to shrink that space.
But if you point your mouse cursor at it again,
that space will expand.
And then you can click on the one that you want.
Now if you find something that you want to visit
again later, you can save a collection of tabs
or you can save individual pages as favorites.
Let's start with tab collections.
If you have those vertical tabs enabled,
you can go over to that sidebar and click on that button,
the tab actions button again.
And choose, add all tabs to collections.
So now those have been added.
And if I go over here to the right
and click this collections button,
it's the one with the plus sign on it,
I can see that collection.
So it saved all three of those pages.
And later, I could click on any of these to load that page.
Now up at the top, you could click here
to name this collection.
Or you can click the back button,
and you can see that collection listed here.
And later, if you wanted to, you could click this box
to select it and then click the trashcan
to delete that collection.
But I'm going to leave it as it is for now,
I'll just click outside of this.
So you can save groups of tabs as collections,
but you might just want to save
an individual page as a favorite.
Some other web browsers call this bookmarking.
To do that, load the page you want.
So I'm going to stick with the page I have here,
and then click this star button in the address field.
Then you can go to this menu
and choose whether you want to save this favorite
in the favorites bar or in other favorites.
Let's choose favorites bar, and then I'll click done.
If you save something in favorites,
you can access it by clicking this other star button,
the one that's outside of the address field.
And from here, you can browse through all of your favorites
or even get them organized.
And if you want to load one,
you can just click on it right here.
Or since I saved one in the favorites bar,
there's an easier way to access to it.
I just need to open up this panel,
then click this button with three dots.
Go to show favorites bar and choose always.
And that adds this bar up at the top.
And all of the bookmarks that you saved
in the favorites bar will be visible there.
So later you might close Edge, and then you open it again
and you want to go back to one of those pages.
You could click one of the favorites in the favorites bar
to go directly to that page.
Or you could click on the collections button,
go into one of your collections
and click on one of those pages from here.
And we'll stop here, having seen how to browse pages
and mark them as favorites.