How to Organize Your Favorite Web Sites Into Folders in IE 11

How to Organize Your Favorite Web Sites Into Folders in IE 11


The Windows 8 Modern UI/"app" version of Internet Explorer 10 offers no quick way to access your favorites, no method to organize them into folders, and no option to sync them with the desktop version of the browser. In the Windows 8.1 edition of IE 11, Microsoft has resolved all of those obstacles.

To give the new features a whirl, fire up Internet Explorer from its Start screen tile. To quickly see your favorites, right-click anywhere on the browser’s screen and click on the Favorites button (the one with the five-pointed star). All your favorite Web sites will appear in a row.

You can add existing and new favorites to individual folders to better organize them. To add an existing favorite, right-click on its tile, click on Edit, select the "New folder" button, and give the new folder a name. To add a new favorite to a folder, open the Web page that you want to save as a favorite. Click on the Add to Favorites button (the one with the five-pointed star and a plus sign). Click on the drop-down list called "All" to choose an existing folder, and then click Add. Or click on "New folder" to generate a new folder for your favorite, enter a name for the folder, click on Create, and then click on Add. You’ll see the new favorite in its new folder.

Also good to know: The Modern UI and desktop flavors of Internet Explorer 11 now actually talk to each other to keep your favorites in sync. (In Windows 8, they operated in silos of their own.) Add, modify, or remove a favorite or folder in one version, and your change automatically pops up in the other version.