Using the Hotlist

Introduction

Opera's multi-purpose Hotlist, enabled with F4, is organized into panels:

Panel	Purpose
Bookmarks	Organize bookmarks to your favorite Web sites
Mail	Read, write, and organize e-mail and news
Contacts	Organize your list of contacts
History	Keep track of all recently visited Web pages
Transfer	Monitor file transfers
Links	View all links in a Web page
Windows	Organize all your open pages and application windows
Web panels	Show Web pages in Hotlist

Tip: Right-click the top of the Hotlist to add, edit, hide, remove, or customize panels.

Note: M2, Opera's news and e-mail client, is covered on a separate page.

Bookmarks

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
Create bookmark for active Web page	Drag page icon from Address bar to Hotlist
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
Make bookmark available at all times	Drag bookmark 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

Tip: Click "View" to sort your bookmarks.

Right-click a bookmark for multiple choices:

Open	Open selected bookmarks in active page
Open in new page	Open selected bookmarks in new pages
Open in background	Open selected bookmarks in the background
Show on Personal bar	Make bookmark available on Personal bar
Add page	Create bookmark for active Web page
Add all	Create bookmarks for all open pages
Cut	Move selected bookmarks to clipboard
Copy	Copy selected bookmarks to clipboard
Paste	Paste from clipboard to selected folder
Delete	Delete selected bookmarks
Select all	Select all bookmarks
Find	Do advanced searches with the "Find Bookmarks" dialog
New »
Folder	Create new bookmark folder
Bookmark	Create new bookmark
File »
New	Create alternate bookmark file
Import Opera bookmarks...	Import links from Opera bookmark file
Import Netscape bookmarks...	Import links from Netscape bookmark file
Import Internet Explorer favorites	Import links from Internet Explorer
Export Opera Bookmarks...	Save all bookmarks to file
Properties	Edit properties for selected bookmark

In the bookmark properties you may:

• Edit the bookmark's name, nickname, and Web address
• Add a bookmark description
• Move the bookmark to another folder
• Make the bookmark available on the Personal bar
• Show the bookmarked Web page as a Hotlist panel

Tip: Press Shift + F2 and enter nickname for fast access to a bookmark.

Contacts

Create contacts and store your friends' e-mail address, telephone number, and postal address.

Operation	How to do it
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

Right-click a contact for multiple choices:

Compose mail	Write e-mail to selected contact
View messages	View e-mail associated with selected contact
Visit homepage	Visit selected contact's homepage
Show on Personal bar	Show contact on Personal bar
Cut	Move selected contacts to clipboard
Copy	Copy selected contacts to clipboard
Paste	Paste from clipboard to selcted folder
Delete	Delete selected contacts
Select all	Select all contacts in active folder
New »
Folder	Create new folder for group of contacts
Contact	Create new contact
File »
New	Create alternate contact file
Open	Open (switch to) alternate contact file
Save as	Save copy of contacts to new file
Properties	Edit properties for selected contact

In the contact properties you may:

• Edit selected contact's name, e-mail address, homepage address, postal address, and phone numbers
• Add additional notes
• Select a picture (approximately 60x50 pixels) you would like to associate with selected contact
• Select a small icon you would like to show next to messages from selected contact

History

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.

Right-click a history item for multiple choices:

Open	Open selected history item in active page
Open in new page	Open selected history items in new pages
Open in background	Open selected history items in the background
Cut	Move selected history items to clipboard
Copy	Copy selected history items to clipboard
Delete	Delete selected history items
Select all	Select all history items

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.

Transfers

Opera's Transfers panel lets you monitor and control files being transferred between your computer and the Internet.

Operation	How to do it
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

Right-click a transfer item for multiple choices:

Resume transfer	Resume transfer of selected files
Stop transfer	Stop transfer of selected files
Restart transfer	Transfer selected files again
Remove transfer	Delete selected transfer items
Copy file information	Copy selected transfer items to clipboard

Note: Not all Web sites support resuming of file transfers.

Links

Opera's Links panel displays all links in the active Web page. Use this panel to quickly get a structured overview of possible new pages to visit.

If you right-click a link item, the standard Link menu will appear with an extra option:

Lock panel	Freeze the links panel

Tip: When you visit for example a search engine or an index page, click the "Lock" button to temporarily freeze a list of all links.

Windows

The Windows panel displays a tree-structured view of your open pages and application windows.

To see how this works, press Ctrl + Alt + N a couple of times to create some applications windows. Then press Ctrl + N a couple of times while in the different application windows.

To close a page or an application window, select the item and press Delete.

Web pages as panels

To show a Web page in Opera's Hotlist, 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 Hotlist panels.

Example: Add the Help table of contents as a Hotlist panel.

Tip: Right-click the Hotlist Web-page area for multiple choices.

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