About saving and printing Web pages

As you view Web pages, you’re likely to find information that you’d like to save for future reference or share with other people, especially those who don’t have access to the Web or a computer. In Microsoft Internet Explorer, you can save a Web page or any part of a Web page — such as a picture, link, or text — to your computer. You can also copy text, links, and pictures from a Web page to another document.

In Internet Explorer, you can save a Web page in these formats:

If you want to save a Web page by printing it, you can save paper — and avoid surprises — by previewing the printed version of the page before you print it. You can also fine-tune your printing options to make sure it prints the way you want.

Saving a Web page

About Internet Scrapbook

Copying text from a Web page

Saving a picture

Previewing a Web page before printing

Printing a Web page

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Save a Web page

  1. On the File menu, click Save As.
  2. Specify a name and location for the file.
  3. On the Format pop-up menu, click the format you want.
  4. Click Save.

Tip If the Web page contains frames, you can save it as a Web Archive format file to ensure that the page appears as it does on the Web.

About saving and printing Web pages

Adding a clipping to the Internet Scrapbook

Saving a picture

Copying text from a Web page

Saving the destination file of a link

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Copy text from a Web page

  1. Select the text you want to copy.
  2. On the Edit menu, click Copy.
  3. Switch to the document you want to copy the text to.
  4. Click where you want the text to appear, and then click Paste on the Edit menu.

Tip To select all of the text on a page quickly, click anywhere in the page, and then click Select All on the Edit menu.

Saving a Web page

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Save a picture


Tip You can also save a picture as a file by pointing to the picture, holding down the mouse button, and then clicking Download Image to Disk on the contextual menu.
Tip You can also copy a picture by pointing to the picture, holding down the mouse button, and then clicking Copy Image on the contextual menu.

Adding a clipping to the Internet Scrapbook

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Copy a Web page address

Saving a Web page

Sending a Web page address in an e-mail message

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Save the destination file of a link

  1. Point to the link, hold down the mouse button, and then click Download Link to Disk on the contextual menu.
  2. Specify a name and location for the file.
  3. Click Save.

Note If the destination file of the link you’re saving is a Web page, Microsoft Internet Explorer saves it as an HTML Source file.

About saving and printing Web pages

Saving a Web page

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Preview a Web page before printing

  1. If the page you want to print is contained in a frame, click anywhere in the frame.
  2. On the File menu, click Print Preview.
  3. To change how the page will print, select the options you want.

Tip To change the size of text when printed, click Larger or Smaller in the print preview window.

Changing printer options

Printing a Web page

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Print a Web page

  1. If the page you want to print is contained in a frame, click anywhere in the frame.
  2. On the File menu, click Print.
  3. Select the printing options you want, and then click Print.

Previewing a Web page before printing

Changing printer options

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Change printer options

  1. On the File menu, click Page Setup.
  2. Select the page attributes and printer options you want.

Printing a Web page

Previewing a Web page before printing

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