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How to show the Microsoft Edge Favorites toolbar
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Updated onAugust 2, 2024
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Most browsers include a favorites (or bookmarks) toolbar that you can select to include at the top of their windows. A bookmarks bar includes bookmarked sites and usually sits just below the URL bar for more direct page access. Edge also includes aFavorites bar, but it’s not selected by default. This is how you can show the Favorites bar inMS Edge.
How to enable the Favorites bar in Microsoft Edge
Remove Text From the Favorites Toolbar
Bookmarked pages on the Favorites bar include the website titles. You can remove the text from the bookmarks to free up some space on the bar. This is how you can remove the text on the bar so that it includes just page icons.
Add Folders to the Favorites bar
You can also add folders to Edge’s Favorites bar. Then you can drag page shortcuts into the folders, but still open them from the Favorites bar. To add a new folder, right-click the Favorites bar and selectCreate new folder. Enter a title for the folder, and then drag some page shortcuts into it. You can open the shortcuts by clicking a folder on the Favorites bar and selecting a page to open.
Import Bookmarks to Your Favorites Toolbar
Like most browsers, Edge also includes an option toimport bookmarks from other browsers. Then you can move those page bookmarks onto the Favorites bar. You can import bookmarks from Chrome and Internet Explorer to Edge as follows.
Now that you’ve got the Favorites bar up in Edge, you can open sites more directly from there instead of opening favorite websites via the Hub. As you can expand the Favorites bar with additional folder menus, it’s probably a better alternative to the Favorites sidebar on the Hub.
To learn more about bookmarks, we have a great guide on how to findMicrosoft Edge bookmarks location, so don’t miss it for more information.
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