27th May 2002

Okay, how many 'Favorites' do you have? Anything more than two hundred is a lot. Even with FAT32, they're eating up a ton of disk space. What can you do about it? Use IE's built-in export wizard to turn compile them into a single HTML document. Choose 'File,' 'Import And Export,' then click the 'Next' button. Select 'Export Favorites' from the list of options, and choose the root 'Favorites' folder. In the following dialog, Export your Favorites 'to a File or Address.' I suggest Browsing to your 'My Documents' folder and storing the output in an HTML file there. When that's finished, you can open the exported file up in IE and drag & drop its Address bar icon onto the 'Home' icon in the IE button bar (to set the document as your browser's home page). We have to deal with Web pages on a daily basis. That just comes with being online. So, does your printer get a regular Web workout? You can configure the header and footer on those printouts in IE - to waste less (or more) ink. Above all, you can configure them to your liking. Select 'File,' then 'Page Setup' from your IE menu. Right-click on the 'Headers and Footers' title, select 'What's This?' and you'll see an extensive list of mail merge commands which you may use at your discretion. NOTE: printed page layouts in Netscape are somewhat tweakable, too (although not quite to the same degree).