Internet Explorer Accelerator button - Turn On or Off

Turn "Display Accelerator Button on Selection" On or Off in Internet Explorer

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This tutorial will show you how to have the Accelerator button to display or not when text is selected or highlighted in IE8, IE9, or IE10.


EXAMPLE: Display Accelerator button on selection ON
NOTE: When turned on, you can click on the accelerator blue arrow button displayed when selecting text in Internet Explorer to see and select from any enabled accelerator add-on.
W7_Display.jpg
EXAMPLE: Display Accelerator button on selection OFF
NOTE: When turned off, you can still right click on the selected text in Internet Explorer to see and select from any enabled accelerator add-on.
W7_No_Display.jpg


Here's How:
1. Open Internet Explorer.
A) Click/tap on the Tools Command Bar icon button or Menu Bar item and click on Internet Options.

B) Go to step 3.
OR

2. Open the Control Panel (icons view) .
A) Click/tap on the Internet Options icon.
3. Click/tap on the Advanced tab. (See screenshot below)
W7_Options.jpg
4. To Turn On Display Accelerator Button on Selection
A) Check the Display Accelerator button on selection box, then click/tap on OK. (See screenshot above)
5. To Turn Off Display Accelerator Button on Selection
A) Uncheck the Display Accelerator button on selection box, then click/tap on OK. (See screenshot below step 3)
That's it,
Shawn





 
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problem with adding accelerators

I have tried to add accelerators from the IE8 accelerator page. Nothing happens when I click on the Add To Internet Explorer button. I have checked all of my settings and options and nothing jumps out at me as far as errors. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to fix this? Thanks in advance for any help supplied.
 

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Adding accelerators

Thank you for the replies. I do run SP3. I had run through all of the steps a number of times trying to add more of them, but every time I pressed the button to add the accelerator nothing would happen. IE8 started to act quite bizarre so I just went ahead and uninstalled and re-installed it. Now everything is working fine. Thanks again for all of the replies.
 

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I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted Sparhawk. Thank you for posting back with your results. :)
 

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