Microsoft Edge Shortcuts

Opens Copilot in sidebar to summarize web pages, generate text, analyze document data, and ask questions.

Moves tabs from crowded horizontal top bar to an organized vertical left sidebar with collapsible titles.

Captures selected rectangular screen area or takes a full-page scrolling screenshot with drawing pen tools.

Strips away clutter, ads, and sidebars, presenting articles in clean book typography with grammar tools.

Reads the active web page or PDF document aloud using natural human-sounding neural voice synthesis.

Opens Collections side panel to gather web snippets, images, quotes, and links across multiple research topics.

Highlights text and opens Bing search results in a side dock without navigating away from the current page.

Shows or hides the right-hand Edge sidebar containing Tools, Calculator, Drop files, and Outlook web apps.

Pastes text or URL from clipboard and immediately executes search in a new tab.

Opens feedback dialog with diagnostic screenshot to report a bug or suggest browser improvements.

Opens a new blank tab and immediately highlights the address bar.

Closes the current active browser tab.

Restores the most recently closed tab with full history (press repeatedly to restore earlier closed tabs).

Opens a fresh, independent Microsoft Edge browser window.

Opens private InPrivate window that stores no search queries, cookies, or history on device.

Closes active Edge window and all open tabs.

Cycles forward to the next tab to the right.

Cycles backward to the preceding tab to the left.

Switches directly to the very first tab on the strip.

Switches directly to the second tab on the strip.

Switches directly to the eighth tab on the strip.

Switches directly to the final tab open in active window.

Navigates back to the preceding page.

Navigates forward to the next page in history.

Loads configured start page in current tab.

Selects the entire URL in the address bar for typing a web address or search term.

Alternate fast shortcut to jump directly to address bar without mouse.

Places question mark "?" in address bar to execute a web search.

Type domain keyword (e.g. "microsoft") and press Ctrl+Enter to auto-wrap as "www.microsoft.com".

Executes typed URL or search query in a new background tab.

Refreshes active webpage.

Standard reload shortcut for refreshing webpage contents.

Forces browser to bypass cached scripts, stylesheets, and images to download fresh code.

Forces hard reload of the current page ignoring cached files.

Halts current webpage loading request.

Opens find bar at top right to search keywords within active webpage text.

Jumps to next occurrence of search term on webpage.

Jumps to preceding occurrence of search term on webpage.

Saves current webpage to your Favorites folder or Favorites bar.

Saves every open tab in current window into a newly created favorites folder.

Opens Favorites flyout menu to organize, reorder, and manage saved links.

Shows or hides the horizontal favorites bar beneath the address bar.

Opens edge://history to search past visited URLs and tabs from other synced devices.

Opens clear data dialog to delete browsing history, cookies, cached images, and passwords.

Opens Downloads flyout to view active file download progress and download history.

Saves active webpage as HTML file or Complete Webpage with image assets.

Opens Print preview dialog to print or save the webpage as a clean PDF document.

Opens Edge Developer Tools: Elements DOM tree, Console, Network inspector, and Performance.

Opens or closes Microsoft Edge Developer Tools dock.

Directly focuses the JavaScript Console to view runtime logs and execute scripts.

Hover over any UI element on page to inspect its HTML markup and CSS styling rules.

Opens raw HTML markup of active webpage in a separate tab.

Simulates mobile screens (iPhone, iPad, Surface, Android) and responsive layouts in DevTools.

Monitors real-time CPU, RAM, and GPU memory consumption of each tab and browser extension.

Opens Microsoft Edge primary menu for Settings, Extensions, and Print.

Hides tab strip, address bar, and OS taskbar to display full screen web content.

Increases text and image scale on the current webpage.

Decreases text and image scale on the current webpage.

Resets webpage zoom level back to standard default 100%.

Enables keyboard cursor to select text on webpages without a mouse.