# Using panels

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## Introduction

Opera's panels, enabled with `F4`, gives you quick access to your bookmarks, contacts, messages, and much more.

Operation | How to do it
--- | ---
Display generic multiple choice menu | Right-click the panel header
Display specific multiple choice menu | Right-click list items in a particular panel
Display panel in compact mode | Single-click respective panel header

## Search

The search panel contains a collection of search engines and other on-line searches.

## Bookmarks

Opera comes with a wide selection of bookmarks to popular sites already installed. You may add and organize bookmarks as you wish.

Operation | How to do it
--- | ---
Create bookmark for active Web page | Drag page icon from Address bar to Bookmarks panel (or press `Ctrl` + `T`)
Open bookmark in active page | Click bookmark
Open bookmark in new page | Press `Shift` and click the bookmark (or middle-click the bookmark)
Open bookmark in the background | Press `Ctrl` + `Shift` and click the bookmark
Make bookmark available at all times | Drag bookmark or page icon to Personal bar
Find bookmark | Enter text to search for in "Quick find" field
Create folder to organize bookmarks | Click dropdown triangle on "Add" button, select "New folder".
Open all bookmarks in selected folder | Drag bookmark folder to Opera's workspace
Move bookmarks and folders around | Drag and drop items
Sort your bookmarks | Click "View"
Fast access to bookmark | Press `Shift` + `F2` and enter nickname
Manage bookmarks | Press `Ctrl` + `Alt` + `B`

### Bookmark properties

Press `Alt` + `Enter` to:

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

## Mail

Read about Opera's news and e-mail client

## Contacts

Create contacts and store e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, chat nicknames, and postal addresses.

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 | Click contact
Make contact available at all times | Drag contact to Personal bar

### Contact properties

Press `Alt` + `Enter` to:

- Edit selected contact's name, e-mail address, homepage address, chat nickname, postal address, and phone numbers
- Write down notes about the contact
- Select a picture (around 60x50 pixels) that you would like to associate with the contact
- Select a small icon you would like to have displayed next to messages from the contact

Tip: If you type the word "party" in the Notes field of your coolest friends, you can later type "party" in the "Quick find" field to find all those people, then drag and drop them into an e-mail to send a party invitation.

## Chat

Read about Opera's chat client

## History

Opera's History panel keeps a list of Web pages that you have recently visited. In Opera's History and cache preferences, you may choose how many addresses to keep track of.

Tip: If you recall having visited an interesting site, but forgot to bookmark it, use the "Find" field in the History panel to locate it.

## Links

The Links panel extracts all links in the current Web page so you can easily find images, music, video clips, zip files and other downloads, as well as links to other pages.

Example: Type "mp3" in the "Quick find" field to find all mp3 files on the page.

Tip: Click the "Lock" button to keep the current list of links even if you browse to other pages.

## Windows

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

Operation | How to do it
--- | ---
Create application windows | `Ctrl` + `Alt` + `N`
Create page tabs in current window | `Ctrl` + `N`
Re-arrange your windows and tabs | Use drag and drop
Delete selected item | Press `Delete`
Further window options | Right-click the tree

## 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 the link to the file 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

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

## Notes

The Notes panel can serve as a clipboard manager, a "to do" list, and other means of remembering multiple strings of text.

Operation | How to do it
--- | ---
Write a new note | Click "New note"
Organize notes into folders | Click dropdown arrow on "New note" button, and select "New folder"
Take notes from a Web page | Mark text in page, then press `Ctrl` + `Shift` + `C`
Paste from clipboard into note | Press `Ctrl` + `Shift` + `V`
Search the Web for contents in note | Drag note to search field and press `Enter`
Delete a note to Trash | Select note and press `Delete`
Undelete a note from Trash | Open Trash and drag note out of Trash
Organize notes and folders | Use drag and drop
Send a note as an e-mail message | Select note and click "Send", or drag note into message body

Tip: The right-click menu of all edit fields, such as e-mail messages and Web forms, contains the sub-menu "Insert note". Use Notes to store strings of text that you use repeatedly, such as standard e-mail messages or templates, and signatures.

## Info

The Info panel displays technical information about the current Web page.

## Web panels

To show a Web page in a panel, 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 panels.

Example: Create panel with table of contents for Opera help

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