Opening Links

• All links clicked with left-mouse button download in a background window.
• Selecting Open in Same Window (Navigation - Open in Same Window | S | F2) causes all downloads to occur in the current window unless it is Shift + clicked. This is the way Internet Explorer normally works.
• Shift + click opens link in background window, even if it is in a frame or Open in Same Window is in effect, and sets it as the next page when selecting Next.
• Ctrl + click opens link in current browser window.
• Alt + click forces the creation of a new window to download the link, preventing WebSpeedReader from re-using any windows, and thus, preserving all documents.
• Ctrl+O or Ctrl+L opens a dialog box allowing you to type in the address, opening a new window in the background. http://www. will be prepended, and .com/ will be suffixed to anything entered that has no period. This is also true for the address box, but navigation will occur in the same browser window as the address box. Example: type example and WebSpeedReader will navigate to http://www.example.com/.  Ctrl+M brings up a similar box, but allows you to enter more than 1 address without closing the dialog box.
• To open a file on your computer, select File - Open Local File to bring up a dialog box that will allow you to browse for web files on your computer.

Tip: You can delete any local file directly in WebSpeedReader by selecting File - Delete this File or Ctrl+D. This option will not be enabled if the document in the current browser window is not from your computer. Also note that, because only the file is deleted, the document will still be loaded in the browser window until it is replaced with another document or WebSpeedReader is closed.

• Click on OpenLinks on the top menu for many more options.

Navigating Among Windows

• Sidebar - WebSpeedReader now has a new sidebar that displays all of the open windows. There are several tabs at the top of the sidebar. The default tab is the Links Bar, which initially will display the same links that you saved to Internet Explorer's link bar located near the address box, if it's visible. However, you can now save any link to the Links Bar by checking the Quick Links checkbox when you save the link to your Favorites. Right-click any link to manage the links. Black entries indicate the beginning of a download; blue entries indicate fully downloaded sites but not yet read, and red entries are documents that have already been read. The current window is the selected entry. Click on any link to go to the site immediately. Important Note: WebSpeedReader limits the number of windows to minimize memory use. You can adjust the number of windows by selecting Tools - WebSpeedReader Options from the menu. The default number is 25. WebSpeedReader re-uses windows, so you do not have to close the window to move to the next window. When more links have been clicked than the maximum number of windows chosen, WebSpeedReader queues those links. As you read each document and move to the next, a new document will be downloaded in the window that you have just read. You will NOT see queued links in the sidebar, because they are not actually loaded yet, and thus, don't belong to a window. You can resize the window, and WebSpeedReader will retain the width that you have chosen. You can also close the window.
• Note: WebSpeedReader displays documents in a particular order when selecting next (Menu: Navigation - Next Window; toolbar button: u ; keyboard: F12; with scroll lock on: the decimal point key on the numeric keypad.)
• The priority of the documents is shift + clicked links > unread loaded documents > unread loading documents > read documents. You can access any document any time by clicking on the Window menu or the Windows sidebar and selecting the document from the list. Once all documents have been read, then selecting next simply cycles through all of the documents.
• Right-mouse click on the document moves to the next document.
• Note: Ctrl + right-click will show the default context menu for that item, the same as Internet Explorer.

• Closing a browser window will also select the next document, but it is not necessary to close any windows. WebSpeedReader simply re-uses those windows to download other documents.
• To keep a document in memory so that it will not be replaced by another document after it has been read, select Navigation - Keep in Memory |  K  |  F3. This is a toggle. The window will not be used to download other documents until it is toggled off.

Windows Management

• As you click on more links and download more documents, WebSpeedReader opens more windows. Eventually, as you read the documents, the windows containing read documents will be reused to download other documents. This is how WebSpeedReader conserves memory. However, any window where you have toggled Keep in Memory will not be re-used.
• Close All Read Windows - Selecting this feature from the File menu will close all windows that you have read, except for windows that have been designated as Keep in Memory.
• Close All Windows except Current - This does exactly what it says. When you select this option from the File menu, then the one window that you're looking at is the only window that will be loaded until you click more links.
• Open in Same Window - Selecting this option from the File menu causes all navigation in the current window to occur in that window. You can still Shift + click to open a link in a new window. In other words, it will work just like Internet Explorer.

• Windows can also be managed from the sidebar:
  • Press the X key down, and while you hold it down, click any open window in the sidebar to close it.
    Mnemonic: The top-right part of most forms in the Windows operating system have a little box with an X in it. When you click it, it closes the form. Thus, holding down the X key while clicking a window in the sidebar closes that window.
  • Press and hold the K key down and click any window that you want to Keep in Memory. Windows that are kept are underlined in the sidebar and will not be replaced by other documents.

Scrolling

• You can scroll with the usual keys: Page Up, Page Down, the arrow keys, Home to go to the beginning of the document, End to go to the end of the document.

• Rotating mouse wheel over the document scrolls the page up or down 1 page for each notch (requires Internet Explorer 6).

• Alt + mouse wheel scrolls the page a few lines at a time up or down.

• Click mouse wheel on blank area of document: Turns on auto-scroll, which scrolls the document continuously until it reaches the top or bottom. Creates 2 marks, a center mark and a scrolling mark. Dragging the scrolling mark up, scrolls up; dragging it down, scrolls down. The farther the scrolling mark is moved from the center mark, the faster it scrolls. Clicking any mouse button stops it.

• On the numeric keypad with Scroll Lock on (the 1st column shows the numeric keys as they appear on most keyboards, a close simulation, anyway):

  0 Ins	Pages Down
  Ÿ Del	Go to the next document.
  1 End	Pages Up
  2  â	Go to top of document.
  3 PgDn	Go to bottom of document.

• Note: It may appear incongruous to designate a key such as the 1 key which is usually the End key when NumLock is off as the Page Up key, but it is done this way for the greatest convenience. Because most of the time you will be paging down and going to the next document, it is most comfortable to have those 2 keys at the bottom of the keypad, the 0 and the decimal key next to it to page down and go to the next document respectively. Try it!
• Occasional Problem: Sometimes, because of background operations, the current browser window loses focus, and using the keypad keys doesn't work. Just click in the document to give it focus again.

Favorites

• View Favorites (Menu: Favorites - View Favorites |  F |  F6) displays your favorites in a separate form. The Favorites form has 2 modes, download mode and organize mode, which you can toggle between the 2 modes by clicking on the top command button. When you select View Favorites, download mode will be in effect. You can click as many links as you like; each link will download in a separate browser window for instant access. You can download links by:

  1. Clicking on them individually.

  2. Click on a folder to download all links in that folder, but not subfolders.

  3. Ctrl+click to download all links in that folder and all subfolders.

  4. Shift+click a link to download all links between it and a previously downloaded link in the same folder, or if there isn't any, then it will download all links from the top of the folder to the clicked link.

  Right-click on a folder to rename, edit, delete, or add a new favorite. Right-click a link to rename, edit, or delete the link. Right-clicking anywhere else brings up more options.

• Quick Links is shown in the sidebar under the Links tab. This displays the links that show up on the link bar in Internet Explorer. Keep your most commonly clicked links, that aren't scheduled, here. You can also view Quick Links in the Favorites form by right-clicking on an empty part of the treeview, and select Quick Links from the context menu.

• Sidebar - Quickly Filter Favorites or History to Display in Sidebar - In the second textbox at the top of the sidebar, you can type in a few characters to filter your list of Favorites, which will be displayed below, in the sidebar. This selects all favorites that have the typed characters in the title, URL, or keywords. Some tips: (1) type in a domain to select all Favorites with that domain; (2) enter "file://" or "c:\" to select all files on your disk; (3) enter "foldername\subfoldername" to display all links in that subfolder. Remember to press Enter after typing in your letters to display the new list.

• Special Filters - There are special filters that can be applied to the filter box to select particular links. All the special filters start with a letter, which is case insensitive and designates the type of filter to apply, followed by a space.

  • L tab - Displays your Quick Links in the sidebar. If you want to remove a link from the Quick Links bar, just right-click on the link, and select Remove from Quick Links from the context menu.

  • S tab - Shows all links that are scheduled. If you don't want to read all the links scheduled for today, then the next best thing is to show all scheduled links, and click on the ones that you want. If you want to unschedule any links, simply right-click the link, and select Unschedule from the context menu.

  • Tip: If you want to schedule a link or add a link to the Quick Links list, then simply select Edit from the context menu. You can also delete any link from the same menu.

  • H tab - Type some characters in the filter box, then click the H tab to display all history entries with the typed characters in the title or URL, if you maintain history. Thus, law will show all history entries that have law in the title or URL. Entering yahoo.com will show all of your history entries that have the domain yahoo.com. Note that maintaining history is on by default, but you can turn it off, and it will erase all history entries. However, if you do this, then the history filter will obviously have no effect.

  • F tab - Clicking the F tab will filter your Favorites list. Thus, entering "blog" in the filter box will display all links with "blog" in the title, URL, or keywords. Enter "science\history" to display all links in your science\history subfolder, assuming that you have such a folder (probably not). Remember to press Enter after typing in your letters to display the new list. Note that you can switch to the other tabs, such as Windows in the meantime. When you go back, the list will remain the same until you specifically change it.

Note: WebSpeedReader maintains its own history list. Therefore, filtering the history list will show few or no results when you first start using it.

• Organize Favorites - Organize mode allows you to move, copy, rename, and delete links and folders. Because folders are nothing more than a group of links with the same keywords, any action on a folder is simply an action on all of the links with the same keywords. The available commands can be accessed by clicking on the command buttons on the right, or right-click on an empty part of the treeview for the context menu. You can access commands in the context menu either by clicking on the desired command, or after the right-click, continue holding down the right mouse button, highlight the desired command, then release the right mouse button. To move, copy, or delete links, you must first select links. Select links by:

  1. Clicking on them individually.

  2. Click on a folder to select all links in that folder, but not subfolders.

  3. Ctrl+click to select all links in that folder and all subfolders.

  4. Shift+click a link to select all links between it and a previously selected link in the same folder, or if there isn't any, then it will select all links from the top of the folder to the clicked link.

  When 1 or more links are selected, then the copy, move, and delete commands are enabled. If copy or move is selected, then click the folder where you want the links moved or copied. After this is done, then all selected links are deselected. If you want to copy or move to a new folder, then after selecting copy or move, select the New Folder command, then click the folder where you want to place the new folder. You'll be placed in edit mode. Type in the name of the new folder, press ENTER, and the files will be copied or moved, depending on which command you selected prior to selecting the New Folder command.

  • Undeleting links - When links are deleted, they are moved to a special folder in Favorites called Delete. You can restore any deleted link by selecting 1 or more links in this folder, then moving them to another folder. When WebSpeedReader is closed, then the links in this folder will be deleted permanently.

• Add to Favorites ( Favorites - Add to Favorites | A | Shift+F6) - Add the current page to Favorites. This form will load with the title and URL of the link, and also the document keywords and description if available. If it is not available, then you can add your own. You can also select a category from the treeview on the left side of the form, or you can create a new category simply by typing in the keywords textbox. Use the backslash (\) to create different levels of categories. Examples: Typing Science in the keywords box creates the Science category if it doesn't already exist; entering Science\Biology creates a Science category with a subcategory of Biology. If the Science category already exists, then it will simply create the subcategory Biology if it doesn't already exist. If it does exist, then your new Favorite will be stored in that subcategory. Of course, if the category already exists, you can select it from the treeview on the left instead of typing it. Also, with the Add to Favorites form:

  • Notes - You can add notes for each bookmark.

  • Home Pages - You can add the page as a home page. WebSpeedReader allows any number of home pages. These are pages that load up every time you start WebSpeedReader. If you have home pages, but want to prevent them from loading, simply press the Shift key while the program is loading. WebSpeedReader will then load a blank page. If you have a dial-up connection, WebSpeedReader will automatically dial the connection if you are not already online. You can cancel the dial-up connection.

  • Scheduling - Any page can be scheduled for every day, every weekday, any day of the week, and for any week of the month. Thus, to schedule a page for every Monday, click on the Monday checkbox; to schedule a page for Tuesday and Thursday, check the boxes for Tuesday and Thursday; to schedule a page for the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month, check the Wednesday box, then check the 1 and 3 boxes of the Week-of-Month frame. If you want to schedule a page for every week, then do NOT check any Week-of-Month checkbox. Week of month is only checked if you want to restrict the downloads to specific weeks of the month. To download the scheduled web pages, just select OpenLinks - Download Scheduled Web Pages from the menu, or press Shift+F2.

  • Quick Link - Add any page to the Quick Links sidebar by checking the Quick Links box.

• Add to Favorites Form Submissions - Because WebSpeedReader now uses a database to store Favorites, it is now possible to not only save links as Favorites, but also any type of form submission, including password logons. Thus, any kind of form submission can easily be automated with WebSpeedReader. Now submitting data or logging onto password-protected sites is just a click on a Favorite. However, a warning: anyone who has access to your computer and can log on as you can also access your password-protected sites, effectively posing as you. Although the form data is not encrypted, passwords cannot easily be found, but they could be found by someone with enough knowledge and time. Therefore, do not use this feature if security is a potential problem!  Saving these Favorites requires a special procedure.

  1. Set Capture by selecting the menu item Favorites - Set Capture.

  2. Fill in the form, then submit it.

  3. When you press the submit button, the Add to Favorites form will load. 2 textboxes will be filled with the information from the form submission. This includes the URL and the post data. It is very important not to change either the URL or the post data unless you know what you are doing; otherwise the submission will not work properly!

  Important Note: Sometimes logging on automatically won't work the first time if the site uses session cookies.

  Note: For security reasons, any form containing file upload information cannot be captured. These are forms that allow you to upload a file on your computer to a server. It has what looks like a textbox with a Browse button next to it. Very few forms upload files, and so this shouldn't be much of a problem.

  Tip: Quickly clear any textbox by pressing F4.

  Also keep in mind, that web pages do change, and sometimes it may be necessary to recapture the information. You can add any other information to the record, including a category, adding it to your Quick Links list, or scheduling the page.

Bookmark Manager

• Overview - The bookmark manager stores your Favorites in a database, instead of using the lame file system approach that Internet Explorer uses. Much more information can be stored in it than would otherwise be possible. Additional information that can be saved includes document keywords, description, posted data, and notes. Bookmarks can also be scheduled in the Edit form, including being able to set more than 1 home page. The rest of this section will cover features of the bookmark manager that have not be covered in the Favorites section above.

  • Filtering the display of links - In either download mode or organize mode, you can filter the links by typing in letters in the text box in the upper-right corner of the Favorites form. Thus, typing in "law" will show all links that have the "law" in the keywords, title, or URL. You can either download the links or organize them.

  • Folders - To create a new folder, you can either type in new keywords when you add a favorite, or you can select a number of files, then select copy or move, then select New Folder, then click on the folder in the treeview where you want to add the new folder. You'll be placed in edit mode, so you can type in the new name of the new folder. Note that you must have links selected for copy or move in order to create a new folder. This is because, the so-called folders are not really folders in the file system, but rather hierarchies of keywords. Thus, if there are no records corresponding to a new folder, then that new folder cannot be created. Therefore, if you delete the last link in a folder, then that folder will also be deleted. The folders is used because it works basically the same way, and most people are familiar with the folder terminology. Note that any changes made to the Favorites in WebSpeedReader will NOT be reflected in Internet Explorer's favorites. An export option will be added in the near future.

  • Edit or delete a favorite without opening a form - Another great time-saver with WebSpeedReader's bookmark manager is the ability to edit or delete a Favorite without opening the Favorites form at all. When you are viewing a web page that you downloaded by selecting a link in the Favorites form, then you can either edit or delete that Favorite simply by select Edit this Favorite or Delete this Favorite from the Favorites submenu. If the current page was not downloaded by clicking on a Favorite, then these 2 options will not be enabled.

Search

• Address box search - Type a ? in the address box, with the search terms following it, to display a Google search in the current browser window.

• Sidebar - Google Search -  A search box is always at the top of the sidebar. Just enter your search terms and press Enter to submit search. By default the G tab is highlighted, and thus, the search will be submitted to Google. By clicking the V tab, then the search will be submitted to Vivisimo, a search engine that clusters search results into categories. The results will download in a background window. Thus, you can submit searches as you read. Click the H tab to highlight those terms in all documents, including all frames.

• Search Page - (menu: Navigation - Search; toolbar button: S ; keyboard: F7) Displays a search page of more than 50 search engines of different specialties, allowing you to quickly find just about anything. Enter your search terms in the textbox at the top, then click on any number of search engines; results from each search engine will be downloaded in separate browser windows in the background.

• Find text in document - Ctrl+F display a textbox that allows you to search in the current document. This is the same dialog box that Internet Explorer uses.

• Find files on your computer - ( Edit - Find Files on your Computer | Shift+F3 ) - displays a Windows Explorer dialog box allowing you to search for specific files on your computer.

Highlighting Search Terms

Highlight search terms - By entering characters in the search box at the top of the sidebar, then clicking H (for Highlighting, directly under the search box), all occurrences of the characters will be highlighted, including all occurrences in frames. You can enter multiple terms that are highlighted separately by separately the terms or phrases with the backquote character ` . This is the unshifted tilde key located next to the 1 key on the top row of most keyboards. The backquote key was chosen as a separator because it is rarely used in text. Click OK to highlight the text; click Cancel to stop highlighting. When highlighting is in effect, the menu item will be checked. The text will be highlighted for any active window, and for any downloaded documents in the active window (after the document has downloaded completely). Thus, to search for 2 presidents, you would enter in the search box: "George Washington`Abraham Lincoln" without the quotes. The current document, if it contained only 1 sentence would look like this: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were two of the greatest presidents of the United States. Note that case is unimportant; so you could have entered "george washington`abraham lincoln" to get the same highlighting even though the text in the terms are capitalized.

Another advantage is that you can also click the G for a Google search of the terms or a V for a Vivisimo search of the terms, in addition to highlighting the terms on all documents. Very convenient!

Note: This feature takes some processing power, so if you are highlighting many terms in a long document, or very common terms, it could take several seconds or more to see the effect. So when you are done with highlighting, be sure to turn it off by clicking on the H tab again.

Schedule

• WebSpeedReader can schedule pages for download. You can schedule any page by selecting Schedule from the top menu, and then the appropriate submenu item. You can schedule pages for daily, weekday, Monday - Sunday, or monthly. The monthly dialog box can also schedule pages for differing schedules in the month; for instance, the 1st and 3rd Monday of every month. The dialog box displays the necessary help to show you how to do it.

• Downloading scheduled pages - The OpenLinks submenu has a number of options to view scheduled pages. Download Scheduled Web Pages downloads the pages scheduled for today. Thus, if today were Monday, May 3, it would download all pages scheduled for daily, weekday, Monday, the 1st Monday of every month. Download Scheduled Pages since last Download downloads all scheduled pages since you last downloaded scheduled pages, up to 6 days past. So if today is Thursday, and your last download was Monday, then this option will select all pages scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Note, however, that pages scheduled for daily and weekday will only be downloaded once.

• Continuing Sessions - Sometimes you can't finish reading everything. You can close WebSpeedReader, then continue later by selecting from the OpenLinks submenu Finish Last Session, which loads the documents that you haven't read yet. Continue Last Session loads the same pages, but also downloads all pages scheduled for today.

Sidebar

• WebSpeedReader now has a new sidebar that displays all of the open windows. There are several tabs at the top of the sidebar. The default tab is L (for Links). This tab has the same entries as the links bar that sits at the top of Internet Explorer. This lists all of the links in the Links subfolder of the Favorites directory. However, with WebSpeedReader's new bookmark manager (see details below), you can now set any Favorites in the Links Bar by simply checking Quick Links in the Add to Favorites ( Favorites - Add to Favorites | A | Shift+F6 ) dialog box. For links that you already have saved as Favorites, simply select Organize Favorites ( Favorites - Organize Favorites | Ctrl+F6 ), select the links that you want to edit, then select Edit. A new dialog box will be loaded with all of the links that you selected, allowing you to edit each entry easily. Click 1 or more links to download in the background. Press Ctrl+click to download the link in the current window.
• The W (W for Windows) tab shows all of the open windows in WebSpeedReader. You can also see the open windows at the bottom of the Links Bar. (You may have to scroll to see them, depending on how many quick links you have.) Black entries indicate the beginning of a download; blue entries indicate fully downloaded sites but not yet read, and red entries are documents that have already been read. The current window is the selected entry. Click on any link to go to the site immediately. Important Note: WebSpeedReader limits the number of windows to minimize memory use. You can adjust the number of windows by selecting Tools - WebSpeedReader Options from the menu. The default number is 25. WebSpeedReader re-uses windows, so you do not have to close the window to move to the next window. When more links have been clicked than the maximum number of windows chosen, WebSpeedReader queues those links. As you read each document and move to the next, a new document will be downloaded in the window that you have just read. You will NOT see queued links in the sidebar, because they are not actually loaded yet, and thus, don't belong to a window. Note also, that WebSpeedReader only downloads 5 pages at a time so that there are no time-out errors. So if you click on more than 5 links in rapid succession, or choose one of the download links in the OpenLinks submenu that downloads many links at a time, only 5 will download to begin with. As each document completes downloading, the next document will start downloading, and so on.
• Headings - The headings tab is symbolized by the special mark for sections: §. Headings divide up a document into sections, so this makes sense and is easily remembered. If you do forget, just hover the mouse over it momentarily to read  the tooltip. By clicking on this tab, all of the headings in the current document will be displayed. You can click on any heading, and the current document will scroll to that place in the document. New headings will show if other documents are loaded or by moving to different windows, until you select another tab. You can see a demonstration of this simply by pressing F1 for Help. You will see the headings in the sidebar automatically.

Note: The headings that are displayed are enclosed with the H1-H6 HTML tabs in the code of the page. This is usually the way headings are formed in web pages; however, it is easy to make a short paragraph look like a heading by formatting it as larger, centered text, but this is isn't a real heading in HTML, and thus, won't be displayed in the sidebar. Also, the sidebar will not display any documents that have frames. Most framed documents are short, and those that are long, generally have their own sidebar for navigating the document, which is a common use for frames. This feature is best for long documents that have headings.

• S, F, H tabs - The S tab displays all scheduled links in the sidebar. The F and H tabs use the filter box right above the tabs to filter your Favorites or History. Selecting the F tab will display in the sidebar all Favorites that have the typed characters in the keywords, title, or URL; selecting the H tab will display all history entries with the typed characters in the title or URL. Note, however, that nothing will be displayed if you elected not to maintain history.
• Resize the sidebar by clicking in the sidebar to select it, then pressing Alt+Right Arrow to increase its width or Alt+Left Arrow to decrease it, and WebSpeedReader will retain the width that you have chosen. You can also close the window by unchecking View - Show Sidebar from the menu. Show the sidebar again by checking the menu item.

Filling Forms

• You can now automatically log onto any site or submit form data automatically by saving the form data as a bookmark. (See Add to Favorites Form Submissions, above.)

• You can also save a list of items that can be added to any textbox by right-clicking the textbox, and selecting the text from the popup menu.  The item will replace anything already there. To create the menu, just select Edit - Edit Form Data from the menu. In the textbox type any sort of information that you wish to have available in separate lines.  The first 120 characters of each line will appear as a caption in the menu, but you can store any amount of information on any given line, and it will be inserted if it is not limited by the textbox or textarea itself. You might want to include such info as first name, last name, full name, etc. You can also easily include multiple identities, when you want to stay anonymous. However, if a number of people are using WebSpeedReader in your household, there is no need to add their identities, since the file that stores the information is different for each user.

Warning: The information is not encrypted, so you should not store sensitive information if security is a potential problem.

Note: For security reasons, any form containing a file upload textbox or a password textbox must be entered manually. Forms containing file upload textboxes allow you to upload a file on your computer to a server. It has what looks like a textbox with a Browse button next to it. Very few forms upload files, and so this shouldn't be much of a problem, but unfortunately, password textboxes are more common. However, you can still log onto password-protected sites automatically by capturing the log on information in a bookmark. With this feature, you can log onto any website automatically by scheduling the page, or you can just click on a bookmark, just as you would any other Favorite.

Font, Image, and Other Element Sizes

If you have a high-resolution screen, you have undoubtedly encountered many websites that use pixels to specify font sizes, resulting in tiny, unreadable fonts on your screen, and images are also small. Or maybe you have a vision impairment. To automatically increase font sizes and images for every page, select View - Zoom Setting, and enter a zoom level. Normal size is 1.

Examples of possible values of zoom setting for changing font, image and other element sizes:

• .9 = 10% smaller
• 1.1 = 10% larger
• 1.25 = 25% larger
• 2 = twice as large.

The zoom setting will remain in effect until it is changed. WebSpeedReader retains the value between sessions.

Individual pages can also be zoomed 1.4 times by selecting View - Enlarge This Page from the menu, or press the + key on the numeric keypad if using numeric keypad navigation.

Fonts sizes can also be changed by selecting View from the menu, then choosing a size from 1 (smallest) to 5 (largest). This zoom setting can be used for most pages even if the fonts have not been enlarged, but it will not work with fonts specified in pixels or points.

Checking Favorite Links

Favorite links oftentimes go bad. Now you can check which links are good or bad by selecting √ (check mark) tab in the sidebar. The first time you run this, select Check All Links. Note that it can take anywhere from 15 minutes to 1 hour to check 1,000 links regardless of your connection speed, because it mostly depends on how fast servers respond, and this isn't affected by connection speed. However, when things go smoothly, it can check about 50 links per minute. Do not use WebSpeedReader until it is finished completely, or until you click Stop on the sidebar.

Note that there will be times when it seems to be stuck on a link, and will be unresponsive. It can sometimes take 10 minutes for a single link, waiting for the server to respond, even if you click Stop. Just let it go until it starts responding again. You can minimize WebSpeedReader or just switch to another application and work on something else in the meantime. If you do minimize WebSpeedReader after starting the link checking, it may not respond when you click on its icon in the Windows taskbar right away. If this happens, just wait a few minutes, then click on it again.

As the program checks links, it will display the information on each link as it is checked. It is color-coded so that it is easy to recognize links with different status codes. You can delete the links individually, or you can click on them to go to the site for verification. When you have the page displayed in WebSpeedReader, you can easily edit or delete the Favorite right there by selecting Favorites - Edit, Delete this Favorite. Very simple, very quick!

Local links (Favorites pointing to files that are on your computer) are also tested, however they do not return a status code. If a local link is good, it is displayed in black along with the rest of the links. If it is not good, it is automatically deleted. It is automatically deleted because a link pointing to a nonexistent file will never be good. All links that were automatically deleted will be presented at the end of the link checking document. Any Favorites that does not have an URL is deleted automatically and not reported, because a link without an URL can't possibly be good, and could just be a blank record.

The codes range from 200 to a little over 500. Generally, 2xx and 3xx are good links, 4xx are errors and 5xx are server errors. There will be some status codes = 0. Just ignore these, for it doesn't mean anything. The main error that corresponds to a page not found is the 404 error. The other errors are usually temporary or don't indicate that the page is not there, so generally, you shouldn't delete these links unless you want to because you don't want them anymore. This is a good place to decide whether you want to keep a Favorite. Although a 404 error generally means the page no longer exists, oftentimes, it will simply mean that it is not available at the moment. That's why there is an option to Recheck Questionable Links. Do this at a later time, preferably at least a couple of days later, and recheck it. Any link that yields a 404 again probably is gone for good, although this isn't always the case. The decision is always yours. If you do delete links, you can always undelete them by going to the Favorites form (Favorites - Organize Favorites) and moving the links out of the Delete folder. Note, however, that when WebSpeedReader is closed, then the links will be deleted permanently.