[gui-talk] Hot to toggle off IE7 History pane?

[Joel Deutsch]

In IE 6, as in IE 7 now,I used to be able to display the browsing history 
tree by pressing control H. Then I could navigate it very simply, perhaps 
pressing Enter on some link in order to revisit a page if I wished, then 
return to the History pane by learning a sequence of Tab and Control Tab 
keystrokes that seemed to take me through some parts of the Web page I was 
on plus a visit to the Tool Bar, just announce in a general way.thouryug .

But in IE 7, I'm not sure what to do. I find that I'm still able to display 
History by pressing Control H, but I can't seem to simply turn it off the 
same way. I've tabbed around at that point, and been reminded that what I 
encounter before getting back onto the Web page that's loaded at the moment 
involves stepping through several unfamiliar stops in what I guess is all 
the IE Tool Bar, but with more controls in it than before. For instance, my 
tab key brings me to a History button, which I don't remember from the IE 6 
tool bar,but I have no idea what to do with it, I mean, without seeing it 
and using the keyboard, of course. Just pressing enter on it doesn't seem to 
do anything. I have a feeling, from reading some of the Help files related 
to the History topic, that there are arrows and other signals that tell the 
mouse user how to do stuff like open a list of options or actions, or 
whatever. But for me, that button is simply inert and useless, at least 
until someone explains its use  to me.

Anyway, if my description sounds befuddled, that's because I am. I need what 
I can't seem to find in the Help files, just a description of a typical IE 7 
interface screen explaining what's there besides the Web page you're on, how 
to navigate among these page elements and how to use them. I remember 
there's supposed to be yet another sort of bar, what's it called, an 
Information Bar or something? I don't know, it just seems (especially when 
opening a page as a Tab) that sometimes I seem to get stuck in some 
elaborate jungle at the top of the page (I imagine it as the top, but I 
don't really know) that's got all sorts of controls, something to do with an 
abbreviated Google function (no, I didn't install the Google Tool Bar) and 
God knows what else, and sometimes it takes me many presses of the Tab key 
through this maze, hearing misleading stuff along the way that makes me 
think I'm finally on the page itself, before I actually am on the page and 
ready to go.

I say that just to confess how confused this can sometimes make me, though 
other times a page loads and it's plain and simple unless I go into the 
address bar and then make the mistake of tabbing around and getting lost 
again.

But back to the beginning. How do I simply turn off the history pane, once 
I've turned it on?

thanks.