Opera Tutorial

Welcome to the Opera, a guide for new and existing users alike to show you how Opera works and how to make use of Opera's many great features and functions. It can be read from beginning to end, or you can choose to use it as reference.

Note: The tutorial sometimes refers to keyboard shortcuts, such as F8; most of these only work in Opera. This particular shortcut focuses the address field.

This tutorial was last updated for Opera version 9.0.

Whereas some differences remain between the Opera versions for Windows, UNIX, and Mac, most of this tutorial applies to Opera on all three major platforms.

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Table of contents

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1. New Users
2. Using Opera
   • Getting started
   • Importing bookmarks and data
   • Using the Opera Web browser
   • The coolest features

     (Mouse Gestures, Keyboard Shortcuts, Fast Searches, Block Pop-ups, Undo Close Page, Notes, Content Blocking, Site Preferences, Widgets, BitTorrent, The Start-up Dialog, Customize it!, View Options, Voice, Hotclick, Wand, Spell Checker, JavaScript Options)

   • The Panels

     (Bookmarks, Mail, Contacts, History, Transfers, Links, Widgets, Windows, Notes, Search), Adding Web pages as panels

   • Chat
3. The User Interface
4. Configure and Customize
   • Preferences
   • Tweaking the User Interface
   • Skins
   • Style sheets
   • Plug-ins
5. How to Get Help

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