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How to Save Internet Web Pages
by By Don Edrington, PC CHAT - February 22, 2001 at 13:08:03:
If you want to copy a whole Web page, there are a couple of things to consider. Do you want to just print it out on paper-or do you want to take certain elements of the page and do different things with them? If you just want a printout from within your browser, go to File, Print. However, Web pages are often taller than standard letter-size paper, so be prepared for the print to come out on two or more sheets of paper.If you’d like to be able to edit the printout, go to Edit, Select All, and then do Edit, Copy. Get into a heavy-duty word proces-sor such as Word Perfect or MS Word and Edit/Paste, or Edit/ Paste Special, HTML, Format. Doing this might cause the whole Web page to be pasted in its entirety into your blank document, from whence you could edit it for page breaks or whatever.
I say “might” because the intricacies of HTML coding are such that you can’t be quite sure what this will produce. In any case, you can choose Edit, Paste Special, Formatted RTF. Rich Text Format should print out the Web page’s text in the same way it originally appeared. Individual graphics would then have to be right-clicked and copied to be pasted into your document-or-right-clicked with Save Picture As and inserted later.
The other way to copy a whole Web page is to go to File, Save As and give it a name and location. Be sure the name you chose has an extension of either HTM or HTML. Now you can get offline and launch your browser by double-clicking its icon. Next, go to File, Open and find the HTML document you saved.
This should give you an exact view of the original Web page-except that there will be no graphics on it, just boxes where the graphics should be. Any graphics you wanted would have had to have been right-clicked and saved separately for later insertion.
A more reliable way to capture the whole page is to see as much of it as you can on your screen. Hit your PrintScreen key and then get into PaintBrush by going to Start, Run, and typing to PBRUSH. Click OK and go to Edit, Paste. Then do File, Save As to save the portion of the web page that was showing in your browser. You might name it Webpage-1.
Go back to your browser and scroll down to bring another section of the Web page into view. Repeat the above steps, starting with your PrintScreen key. When you do File/Save As give the second part of the page a name like Webpage-2. Repeat as many times as is necessary to capture the whole page.
These images can then be assembled with a graphics-editing program or copied and pasted into a word processing document, where the individual sections could be reassembled.
If all you want from a given Web page is some of its text, simply highlight it and do Edit, Copy. Get into any word processor, and do Edit/Paste for plain text, or Edit/Paste Special for formatted text.
This article was reprinted with permission from Don Edrington. See his Web site, www.pcdon.com for additional information. PCCHAT appears twice weekly in San Diego’s North County Times and Riverside County’s The Califonian
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