Saving and Printing pages from the Internet

Many times we do not want to or do not have the time to read all those interesting pages we find on the Internet. Saving them for a later time to read or printing them while on line is the best way to have the article available to read later.

While the saving and printing are similar to Word there are a few differences that are important to note.

** Saving and printing should be done only when the entire page is downloaded onto your screen. If you do not wait, the site will be re-loaded before the saving or printing will be done.
 

Saving Text Only

Articles or sites, which you want to save, can be done in two ways. Which way you choose depends on how you want to view the document later.

If you want to save the text only with out the pictures all you have to do is:

1. Click on File.
2. Click on Save As.
3. Click on the directory where you want to save the file.
4. In the following dialogue box make sure that the ‘Save as Type’ is marked Plain Text (*txt. ).This is very important. Otherwise your page will be saved as html. Make extra sure you  type .txt after the name of the file.
5. Click on Save.

** Note saving this way will not save the graphics (pictures). This is for text only!

If you want to save the text and graphics you must save the site as ‘html’ and open it again in your browser to get both the text and graphic.

Let’s see how.
 

Saving Text and Graphics As stated before the previous procedure for save a page from the Internet is for saving text only. All the great graphics will not be saved that way.

To save Internet pages with the graphics intact you must:
 

1. Click on File (after the page has been completely downloaded).
2. Click on Edit Page
3. Once the Internet page has opened in the editor you can now save it as usual – File – Save As . . .

If this worked correctly you will have noticed that each graphic file was saved as well. The next time you open this page in your browser or editor while your off-line, you will be able to see the page with all the graphics.
 
 
 
 

To open this page in your browser just:
 

1. Open your browser while you are off-line and click on Stop. (Once you open your browser it assumes that you are on-line and begins looking for a connection. Clicking on Stop will stop this search for the connection.)

2. Click on File on the Menu Bar

3. Click on Open File in Browser.

4. You will be asked to open the file, so look for where you saved the file on your hard disk and open it as you would any file.

   
   

Click on Choose File and locate the file you want to open. Notice that you have a choice whether you want to open the file in the Composer (editor for making changes) or Navigator (browser for viewing).
Upon clicking the file name and Open, you will see the file open, from your hard disk, into your browser. From this point you can  read it, print it or edit it.
 
 

**Be Careful – If you open this HTML page in you word processor, that is Word 6 or 7 without HTML support, the document will include all the HTML language documentation. If you have Word 97, you can open your file in it, but some of the formatting may be lost.
 

Printing Internet Pages While On-line. Once the Internet page has been completely downloaded (you can see this by looking at the bottom left corner of your browser window. If it says ‘Done’, it has finished reading) You can do one of two things.
 

1. Click on Print in the icon bar.
2. Then click on OK in the Print dialogue box.
3. All the graphics will be printed. (If youhaven’t downloaded the entire page, you will have to wait.)

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1. Click on File in the Menu Bar
2. Click on Print and then OK.