A Tutorial on Searching the Internet

Printing your information

When your research has located useful information you may wish to incorporate it within an essay, save it to disk to study at leisure, or print it out.

To copy selected text into another program

(You wish to quote in your essay or are compiling notes)

  1. Have both your browser and the program open.
  2. Select the continuous text.
  3. Click on Edit - Copy
  4. Switch to the other program and check the cursor is where you want the text to be placed.
  5. Click on Edit - Paste.

To save off-line 

(You want to study the page(s) at leisure off-line - perhaps on another computer.)

  1. Click on File - Save As...
  2. In the Save in: box select 31/2  Floppy [A:] or an appropriate folder on your harddrive.
  3. In the File name: box key in an appropriate name or use the offered default.
  4. In the Save As Type: box select:
    Web Page, complete to save everything as displayed including images, sounds etc. (You will display this using Internet Explorer) OR
    Web page, html only to save just the text but laid out as on the screen.  (You will display this using Internet Explorer)  
    OR

    Text File to save just the text without any formatting. You will display this using your word processor.

To save an image

  1. Point the mouse cursor in the image and right click the mouse.
  2. Left click on Save Picture As in the drop down menu.
  3. In the Save in: box select 31/2  Floppy [A:] or an appropriate folder on your harddrive.
  4. In the File name: box key in an appropriate name or use the offered default.
  5. Do not change the file type box.

To print a selection of continuous text

  1. Highlight the text.
  2. Click on File - Print 
  3. In the Print Range box click on Selection.

To print an article or selected pages from an article

  1. Click on File - Print Preview.
  2. Scroll through the pages to choose those you wish to print.
  3. In the Print Range box click on All or Pages and enter the page range.
  4. Click on OK

For further help on printing when using Internet Explorer; click on Help - Contents and Index - Printing and Saving Information

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TL revised July 2003


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