How to Save Windows Secrets articles or other webpages the easy way

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Open a wanted article or page. Right-click somewhere on the page and a context menu should appear. Select “Print” and a Print Dialog box should open. Near the top of the box on the left-hand menu there should be “Destination” and a “Change” button. Click on Change and select “Save as PDF”. Now the blue button at the top of the left-hand menu should say “Save” (instead of Print). Click on Save and choose where you want to save the document. It will save with all the text and graphics. Then you can open it with any PDF reader app.

This works in Windows 7 for sure. It probably works in Win 8/8.1 as well but i haven’t tried it yet.

I also posted this in the thread about coming changes to Windows Secrets Newsletter. Many of us are considering whether or not to pay up at a higher price when our subscription to the newsletter runs out. If we don’t pay then we may lose access to literally hundreds of useful how-to’s, best software lists and more. So, skim through current newsletters or archives (unless you’ve already saved everything you want) and open all articles/web pages you want to keep now and use the procedure above to save them in your documents folder on your computer.

Probably i’ll go ahead and renew my subscription next summer, but saving many good articles now will remove loss of access from my decision making. How about you?

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This certainly does not work for me! I also am using Windows 7 Pro 64 bit.

I tried this in Thunderbird for the actual email and after selecting “Print” I see no Destination or Change option.

I opened the full newsletter in Firefox and there is no “Print” option in the context menu.

I opened the full newsletter in Internet Explorer and the “Print” option just displayed my normal menu of printers, no Destination or Change.

So I cannot confirm the steps you described, unless you would like to tell us what program you were running and what “article or page” you were referring to when you pressed the Right-Click to display the context menu.

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This certainly does not work for me! I also am using Windows 7 Pro 64 bit.

I tried this in Thunderbird for the actual email and after selecting “Print” I see no Destination or Change option.

I opened the full newsletter in Firefox and there is no “Print” option in the context menu.

I opened the full newsletter in Internet Explorer and the “Print” option just displayed my normal menu of printers, no Destination or Change.

So I cannot confirm the steps you described, unless you would like to tell us what program you were running and what “article or page” you were referring to when you pressed the Right-Click to display the context menu.

Well, heck, thought i covered all the steps but clearly i failed to mention that i was using Chrome browser!!

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Read this thread with interest and compassion (lots of the latter).

For years (how many I don’t know) I use doPDF. It gives me a “virtual printer” that I can select in any standard Windows print dialogue, I can select location and name of the resulting PDF and it works since XP times, every time and it is free.

Never had to care about what browser could (not) do what in that respect.

Life can be easy.

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This certainly does not work for me! I also am using Windows 7 Pro 64 bit.

I tried this in Thunderbird for the actual email and after selecting “Print” I see no Destination or Change option.

I opened the full newsletter in Firefox and there is no “Print” option in the context menu.

I opened the full newsletter in Internet Explorer and the “Print” option just displayed my normal menu of printers, no Destination or Change.

So I cannot confirm the steps you described, unless you would like to tell us what program you were running and what “article or page” you were referring to when you pressed the Right-Click to display the context menu.

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There do not seem to be any further messages in this forum in response to your query – so hopefully you have solved it.

If you haven’t solved it as yet, you could right click on the page and select “Email page with Windows Live” or click on File > Send > Page By Email – works on IE11 . This should open your email client and should include all images. You could then send the email to yourself.

This option creates a smaller file than a pdf – and the links are still clickable.

HTH

Mike

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Starvinmarvin’s method works on my W10 pro system quite nicely, if it doesn’t…

Try this old way to save web pages (IE only):
On the webpage go to File, Save as…
Select “web archive, single file (*.mht). Then select the destination.
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To save the OP’s way you’ll need MS print to pdf in your print box…
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After it’s selected, then it will prompt you for a storage location.
The webpage in question will be saved cleanly to a PDF file.

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Open a wanted article or page. Right-click somewhere on the page and a context menu should appear. Select “Print” and a Print Dialog box should open. Near the top of the box on the left-hand menu there should be “Destination” and a “Change” button. Click on Change and select “Save as PDF”. Now the blue button at the top of the left-hand menu should say “Save” (instead of Print). Click on Save and choose where you want to save the document. It will save with all the text and graphics. Then you can open it with any PDF reader app.

This works in Windows 7 for sure. It probably works in Win 8/8.1 as well but i haven’t tried it yet.

I also posted this in the thread about coming changes to Windows Secrets Newsletter. Many of us are considering whether or not to pay up at a higher price when our subscription to the newsletter runs out. If we don’t pay then we may lose access to literally hundreds of useful how-to’s, best software lists and more. So, skim through current newsletters or archives (unless you’ve already saved everything you want) and open all articles/web pages you want to keep now and use the procedure above to save them in your documents folder on your computer.

Probably i’ll go ahead and renew my subscription next summer, but saving many good articles now will remove loss of access from my decision making. How about you?

My method of saving web site articles for years has been to highlight the article, copy it, and then paste it into a new document in MS Word or Open Office. This also gives me the ability to add notes, or edit. Add an appropriate name to the file and then file!

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Copy & Paste to a word processor is usually what I do, but has given me mixed results: Sometimes I get a link to pictures which quits working with no inet connection or when pic is taken down on the net. Sometimes formatting imported with text makes editing difficult. I copy & paste the pics and/or do Paste/Special as a workaround.

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My method of saving web site articles for years has been to highlight the article, copy it, and then paste it into a new document in MS Word or Open Office. This also gives me the ability to add notes, or edit. Add an appropriate name to the file and then file!

Yes, my impulse is always to simply click & drag the mouse pointer down (or up) the page to highlight the wanted information, then right-click and select Copy, then open Wordpad or Word and right-click again and select Paste. This works fine for text but sometimes images/graphics are left out. That means i have to Copy & Paste each image in separately, and THAT is the reason i suggested using the Print/ Save as PDF option.

As “eikelein” pointed out you can use a free app that creates a Save to “virtual printer” and choose the Save location you want. I used one for years on XP. Can’t remember now what it was called.

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I routinely use Cute PDF Writer which has run on XP and now is running on Win 7 Professional 64bit.
Here is link for download: http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

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Copying to a word processor program preserves embedded links. I use the free, non-commercial PDF-XChange Lite from http://www.tracker-software.com/charity-academic-discounts, which installs a virtual printer to print any web page to PDF. The resulting PDF cannot see the embedded links but the included PDF-XChange Viewer can re-embed them (one of many features of PDF-XChange).

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If you have a pdf printer installed (I use Acrobat X), just press Ctrl P and choose pdf. However for many web pages this gives you a lot of rubbish and a very long file. This page for example out of Firefox was 26 pages long, with very narrow main content. Much better IMO is to copy and paste the parts of the page you want into Word (as other commenters suggest). A negative of this system is that pictures are often rather large and may need to be reduced in size and wrapped to reduce the length of the article.

An alternative for a page that fits on one screen, is to use Snipping Tool and save the snip as a jpg.

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I use Evernote for this – select what to save, click the elephant, click Save, tag the resultant EN Note as ‘Windows Secrets’, copy & paste Newsletter number and date into Note Title. Done.

If I wanted an EN Note as a PDF I would print the EN Note to a PDF printer – not that I ever have.

For some inexplicable reason, in Firefox, I cannot avoid selecting the line before Newsletter number and date (it’s the title of the first item) hence the cut and paste step. Maybe in Chrome I could, but for various reasons I keep Chrome free of extensions. Firefox is my goto browser.

Would it not be more logical if WS made the ‘title’ of the newsletter page the newsletter number and date, rather than the title of the first item. Probably, but…

NW

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For some inexplicable reason, in Firefox, I cannot avoid selecting the line before Newsletter number and date (it’s the title of the first item) hence the cut and paste step.

NW

Well the auto save function must have timed out so i am retyping this…

For that kind of problem I use /The-Printliminator/

https://css-tricks.github.io/The-Printliminator/:cheers:

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I use Evernote for this – select what to save, click the elephant, click Save, tag the resultant EN Note as ‘Windows Secrets’, copy & paste Newsletter number and date into Note Title. Done.

If I wanted an EN Note as a PDF I would print the EN Note to a PDF printer – not that I ever have.

For some inexplicable reason, in Firefox, I cannot avoid selecting the line before Newsletter number and date (it’s the title of the first item) hence the cut and paste step. Maybe in Chrome I could, but for various reasons I keep Chrome free of extensions. Firefox is my goto browser.

Would it not be more logical if WS made the ‘title’ of the newsletter page the newsletter number and date, rather than the title of the first item. Probably, but…

NW

NW, are you clicking to the article page before saving in Evernote? If you save from the “home” page, perhaps because you just want the top story, Web Clipper takes that title, as you said.

If you click on the article title first, then Web Clipper uses that article’s page title:
43574-lounge-save-evernote

Bonus: you won’t have to tediously select what you want.

Cheers,

Mitch

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NW, are you clicking to the article page before saving in Evernote? If you save from the “home” page, perhaps because you just want the top story, Web Clipper takes that title, as you said.

If you click on the article title first, then Web Clipper uses that article’s page title:
43574-lounge-save-evernote

Bonus: you won’t have to tediously select what you want.

Cheers,

Mitch

I have used all the methods on this thread and I can say that using Evernote is the best choice for this particular task. I open the web page for anything, click on the Evernote icon on the menu bar, click save and the page is put into a notebook of my choosing. I love OneNote for saving email from Outlook and for other desktop tasks but when it comes to using it in a browser it stinks. It cannot even be used in Microsoft’s Edge at this point in time. The big benefit of using the Evernote/Onenote methods is that the clips are saved in an easily editable format while saving to PDF creates a document that is difficult if not impossible to annotate or edit unless you have a very expensive PDF application like Adobe Acrobat or Nitro Professional.

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I use Evernote for this

I see IE11 has a “Send to One Note” in the context menu–haven’t tested it. I wonder can you add a printer to the normal Windows ‘Send To’ function?

Would it not be more logical if WS made the ‘title’ of the newsletter page the newsletter number and date, rather than the title of the first item.

It’s probably better SEO to have ‘real content’ in the title, rather than generic name & number. That’s certainly the case with email newsletters, if you want a decent open rate.

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I too have been using Evernote to save Window Secrets articals over the years. I don’t notebooks but use tags to allow searching. Tags would be ‘networking’ or name of program or app, etc. Most notes have at least 4 or more tags.

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An even better way (in my modest opinion) for Firefox users is to install the ‘Print Edit‘ extension – it allows you to edit the web page content before printing or saving as either an HTML or a PDF document. :-_-:

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If you have Microsoft One Note; simply “send to One Note” Quick, easy and no fuss!!

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If you have Microsoft One Note; simply “send to One Note” Quick, easy and no fuss!!

Never delved into OneNote. As i recall, it began as a paid app or as part of Office a few years ago. Do they offer a free version now? I don’t seem to need to organise a lot of notes or screenshots of different projects so not sure what the benefit is of having OneNote. Can you elaborate a little on its usefulness for those of us who are not familiar?

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There are two Firefox add-ons that help with this – ScrapBook and Zotero. The latter is mainly for academic and research use.

Roger

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See this web page about free Onenote. I have both the free and Office 365 (so Onenote 2016) versions. I’m still trying to work out how it works and whether I can usefully use it!

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Thanks. I’ll check it out!

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OneNote, just as Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 require a so called Microsoft account. I assume we all know what that entails.
Fine if you are okay with this;but some people at least don’t want to go in the warm embrace of the big MS octopus.

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OneNote, just as Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 require a so called Microsoft account. I assume we all know what that entails.
Fine if you are okay with this;but some people at least don’t want to go in the warm embrace of the big MS octopus.

I don’t know about OneNote, but 8.1 and 10 can be logged on with a local account. Why do you say ‘so called MS account’? It is a MS account. I’m afraid I don’t know what that entails because there is so much FUD about it, most of which I personally haven’t experienced. Give me concrete examples and I can then decide if those affect me. And finally, if you hate MS so much you are free to go to Apple or Linux. That’s the Apple who charge more for their products than most companies, or Linux which is free – but many people complain about free products not being as good as paid ones.

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OneNote, just as Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 require a so called Microsoft account. I assume we all know what that entails.
Fine if you are okay with this;but some people at least don’t want to go in the warm embrace of the big MS octopus.

This is not strictly true. Stand-alone (ie not run from within the Cloud) versions of Office Professional include One Note which can be set up to save to your Desktop (whether you log on to Microsoft or not) and/or to OneDrive if you do have a Microsoft account.

I have found One Note to be an extremely under-rated program that brings considerable versatility to ones “computing”.

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@access-mdb
Why do you read “hate Microsoft” into my words? Is it “Fine if you are okay with this” that irks you?

I only observe MS since about 1977/78 when I first worked with MS software on CP/M machines.

MS says in their Win10 EULA that the user’s email address is being associated with an “advertising ID”. I really don’t want to discuss what that is used or needed for.

And my “…the warm embrace of the big MS octopus” was meant to be facetious and tongue-in-cheek.

And BTW since you mention it, some of my customers run Linux systems; they never call because of problems. And my own Linux system just works…

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@access-mdb
Why do you read “hate Microsoft” into my words? Is it “Fine if you are okay with this” that irks you?

I only observe MS since about 1977/78 when I first worked with MS software on CP/M machines.

MS says in their Win10 EULA that the user’s email address is being associated with an “advertising ID”. I really don’t want to discuss what that is used or needed for.

And my “…the warm embrace of the big MS octopus” was meant to be facetious and tongue-in-cheek.

And BTW since you mention it, some of my customers run Linux systems; they never call because of problems. And my own Linux system just works…

My use of the word hate was also facetious and tongue in cheek.

The advertising ID is supposed to to generate a whole slew of spam from MS and others. I’m still waiting. If it means that any ads I get are based on what I’ve searched for then that also means I won’t get ads I have no need for. Whether that works I don’t know as I’ve haven’t had any such ads.

I wasn’t implying that Linux has problems, as far as I’m aware it doesn’t. It was the fact that a lot of people say free is bad, paid for is good, so are being inconsistent. I’m not implying that this is your view BTW.

I think this particular part of the thread has run its course.

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Open a wanted article or page. Right-click somewhere on the page and a context menu should appear. Select “Print” and a Print Dialog box should open. Near the top of the box on the left-hand menu there should be “Destination” and a “Change” button. Click on Change and select “Save as PDF”. Now the blue button at the top of the left-hand menu should say “Save” (instead of Print). Click on Save and choose where you want to save the document. It will save with all the text and graphics. Then you can open it with any PDF reader app.

This works in Windows 7 for sure. It probably works in Win 8/8.1 as well but i haven’t tried it yet.

I also posted this in the thread about coming changes to Windows Secrets Newsletter. Many of us are considering whether or not to pay up at a higher price when our subscription to the newsletter runs out. If we don’t pay then we may lose access to literally hundreds of useful how-to’s, best software lists and more. So, skim through current newsletters or archives (unless you’ve already saved everything you want) and open all articles/web pages you want to keep now and use the procedure above to save them in your documents folder on your computer.

Probably i’ll go ahead and renew my subscription next summer, but saving many good articles now will remove loss of access from my decision making. How about you?

I copy/paste the article into gmail and send it to myself. The gmail labeling system makes it easy to find articles, receipts etc. I used to keep everything in WinOrganizer which I have been using forever but I see that it has become abaondonware so I’ve switched to Evernote.

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Copy & Paste to a word processor is usually what I do, but has given me mixed results: Sometimes I get a link to pictures which quits working with no internet connection or when pic is taken down on the net.

If pasting into MsWord and the content has hyperlinks, they can easily be removed by: CTRL+SHIFT+F9. This works for any selected portion of copied text. If the entire text is selected, then the entire text will have hyperlinks removed. If a portion of the text is selected, then that selected portion will have hyperlinks removed.
If pictures have hidden hyperlinks, then those will also be removed if the pictures are selected as part of the selected text.
Enjoy,
Michael

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I used a program called “Save For Later” years ago for this purpose. It’s now called Pocket[/url], and is still free.

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My approach is slightly different. Since I receive a large number of “tech journals” I always do an Outlook search first. This can prove cumbersome as the important part of the article might not be referenced in the original teaser from the journal. This is my procedure:
1. Open up the journal in a browser. Windows Secrets is great because at the end of the article there is a choice to view all articles as one page!
2. Highlight and Copy the article(s)
3. Go back to Outlook and be sure the email from the journal is open
4. Click on the little arrow next to “Actions” on the ribbon
5. Chose “Edit Message”
6. Move to the bottom of the message
7. Paste using Ctrl-V
8. Save the message

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I use Chrome on Windows 10. I right click on the screen and select Print. At that point I can print it or save as a .pdf wherever I choose.

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I use Chrome on Windows 10. I right click on the screen and select Print. At that point I can print it or save as a .pdf wherever I choose.

And …. that’s where this thread started. Cheers!

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I use Chrome on Windows 10. I right click on the screen and select Print. At that point I can print it or save as a .pdf wherever I choose.

Microsoft includes a virtual printer, available to all applications in Windows 10 (not just Chrome). It’s “Microsoft Print to PDF” and is readily available from the Print Setup screen where you choose a printer. In my experience, it works seamlessly; no need for third-party printer products unless seeking a particular feature like PDF-editing capability. I’ve used it in current versions of Chrome, Firefox, IE, and Edge (the latter just for the sake of completeness).

Chrome has long offered the Save as PDF choice in the printer selection menu. For those who are using Windows versions before 10, this is a great choice. It obviously only works for web pages, though (the topic of this thread); other applications like Office will need a third-party solution like CutePDF to create PDF output.

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other applications like Office will need a third-party solution like CutePDF to create PDF output.

Office 2013–I only checked Word and Excel–has PDF in the Save As choices. Works fine for Word.

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Office 2013–I only checked Word and Excel–has PDF in the Save As choices. Works fine for Word.

The equivalent apps in LibreOffice have “Export as PDF” instead.

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I use the free version of Fireshot.
Does everything I want.

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We’ve seen a lot of suggestions here which may work or not, depending from your system. But what if you need a local copy of a huge website with f.e. some thousands of photos / graphics? in this case have a look a shareware program called “A 1 Website Downloader”

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I use the free version of Fireshot.
Does everything I want.

Yes, Fireshot does all of this.

But it creates a large pdf – and the links are not clickable (unless maybe in the Pro Version)

An alternative is to right click on the page and select “Email page with Windows Live” or click on File > Send > Page By Email – works on IE11 . This should open your email client and should include all images. You could then send the email to yourself.

This option creates a smaller file than a pdf – and the links are still clickable.

HTH

Mike

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W7HP64 here. You have deployed a “special” case instead of a “general” case, i.e., it might work on YOUR machine but it doesn’t work on MINE. On page RC, I get a box with no “print” option but with a “save page as” option which leads to explorer with a suggested file name and a selection menu which includes four (4) options: “web page complete (*.htm, *.html); web page html only (*.htm, *.html); text files (*.txt, *.text); all files (*.*)…Sorry, no “*.pdf”.

Perhaps you have a particular adobe-ish widget installed in your firefox? Look forward to reading your solution.

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W7HP64 here. You have deployed a “special” case instead of a “general” case, i.e., it might work on YOUR machine but it doesn’t work on MINE. On page RC, I get a box with no “print” option but with a “save page as” option which leads to explorer with a suggested file name and a selection menu which includes four (4) options: “web page complete (*.htm, *.html); web page html only (*.htm, *.html); text files (*.txt, *.text); all files (*.*)…Sorry, no “*.pdf”.

Perhaps you have a particular adobe-ish widget installed in your firefox? Look forward to reading your solution.

Well, heck, thought i covered all the steps but clearly i failed to mention that i was using Chrome browser!!

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Open a wanted article or page. Right-click somewhere on the page and a context menu should appear. Select “Print” and a Print Dialog box should open. Near the top of the box on the left-hand menu there should be “Destination” and a “Change” button. Click on Change and select “Save as PDF”. Now the blue button at the top of the left-hand menu should say “Save” (instead of Print). Click on Save and choose where you want to save the document. It will save with all the text and graphics. Then you can open it with any PDF reader app.

This works in Windows 7 for sure. It probably works in Win 8/8.1 as well but i haven’t tried it yet.

I also posted this in the thread about coming changes to Windows Secrets Newsletter. Many of us are considering whether or not to pay up at a higher price when our subscription to the newsletter runs out. If we don’t pay then we may lose access to literally hundreds of useful how-to’s, best software lists and more. So, skim through current newsletters or archives (unless you’ve already saved everything you want) and open all articles/web pages you want to keep now and use the procedure above to save them in your documents folder on your computer.

Probably i’ll go ahead and renew my subscription next summer, but saving many good articles now will remove loss of access from my decision making. How about you?

My WIN 7 IE11 has no such upper left window.

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My WIN 7 IE11 has no such upper left window.

You could right click on the page and select “Email page with Windows Live” or click on File > Send > Page By Email – works on IE11 . This should open your email client and should include all images. You could then send the email to yourself.

This option creates a smaller file than a pdf – and the links are still clickable.

HTH

Mike

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You could right click on the page and select “Email page with Windows Live” or click on File > Send > Page By Email – works on IE11 . This should open your email client and should include all images. You could then send the email to yourself.

This option creates a smaller file than a pdf – and the links are still clickable.

HTH

Mike

I use Foxit Reader for pdfs and it installs a virtual printer which, so far as I know works with any browser and works well.

Bryan

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My WIN 7 IE11 has no such upper left window.

Well, heck, thought i covered all the steps but clearly i failed to mention that i was using Chrome browser!!

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I use Foxit Reader for pdfs and it installs a virtual printer which, so far as I know works with any browser and works well.

Bryan

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My personal method for saving webpages is to (using Firefox) right click, then choose “Save Page As…”. I save all webpages to a “hints tips tricks tweaks” folder on my hard drive. Then I use Frontpage 2003 (yes I know it’s outdated but…) to edit the page. That way I get rid of all the stuff I don’t want. ‘course being an old retired programmer/webmaster/etc. I thoroughly enjoy such stuff. Might not be your cuppa tea.

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My personal method for saving webpages is to (using Firefox) right click, then choose “Save Page As…”. I save all webpages to a “hints tips tricks tweaks” folder on my hard drive. Then I use Frontpage 2003 (yes I know it’s outdated but…) to edit the page. That way I get rid of all the stuff I don’t want. ‘course being an old retired programmer/webmaster/etc. I thoroughly enjoy such stuff. Might not be your cuppa tea.

Same thing here. One interesting thing I find is how many writers/programs or whatever still use “old-fashioned” depreciated code. Many still use tables for layout, and the family-friendly ubiquitous BR tag. And there’s a lot of inline styles on many, many websites.

I use Notepad++ as I code by hand. However I appreciate most places use dedicated coding software – WYSIWUG or otherwise which can throw in a lot of rubbish.

I then add my stripped page to one I’ve already created under that subject heading.

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for saving webpages … I use Frontpage 2003 … to edit the page.

most places use dedicated coding software – WYSIWUG or otherwise which can throw in a lot of rubbish.

I then add my stripped page to one I’ve already created under that subject heading.

I use 2 main methods for saving info from the web [not saving pages as such, just the bit(s) which interest me].

1. A Private Forum.

I have cheap webhosting for my business, so I installed a fast light forum fluxBB which I have organized by subject. Main strength is I can be careful about thread subject lines, which makes the search [in Titles only] function very useful.

2. My own Home Page

Even with mostly only myself posting, forum threads can get unwieldy. For pages and sites I want direct access to, I made my own browser home page. That is, a web page which sits on my hard drive, and is set as my browser’s home page.

It has hundreds of links on it, and whenever I get time I intend to make sub-pages for the larger subject areas. This would facilitate at least a small paragraph about each link [“Great place to get cables”, “Excellent lens cleaning info”, and so on].

I use the free MS Expression Web to edit–BatBytes, give it a shot, I used FP for a bit too and EW is much better imo. It has split screen, code and WYSIWYG–use the WYSIWYG to find where to edit, and the code pane auto scrolls to the same place. Very speedy, very little hunting.

Lugh.
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I use 2 main methods for saving info from the web [not saving pages as such, just the bit(s) which interest me].

1. A Private Forum.

I have cheap webhosting for my business, so I installed a fast light forum fluxBB which I have organized by subject. Main strength is I can be careful about thread subject lines, which makes the search [in Titles only] function very useful.

2. My own Home Page

I use the free MS Expression Web to edit–BatBytes, give it a shot, I used FP for a bit too and EW is much better imo. It has split screen, code and WYSIWYG–use the WYSIWYG to find where to edit, and the code pane auto scrolls to the same place. Very speedy, very little hunting.

Tags and site search make searching much easier; no need to list individual articles – just dump them in one folder. Have to work on that. Hadn’t thought of a local forum, but makes sense as it would have search built-in. No need to create a local search engine. Thanks for that.

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Chrome Extension “Print Friendly & PDF” easily creates and downloads a PDF. Before PDF creation you can exclude selected paragraphs and objects. The webpage and other hyperlinks that are not excluded appear as hyperlinks in the PDF.

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I second the Firefox add-on called Scrapbook. It works great and will let you save multiple levels. The only problem I have found with it is that you have to access the saved information via a sidebar window. Desktop search apps don’t seem to index these files, which are stored on one of your drives in a subfolder with names that are not human friendly.

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Open a wanted article or page. Right-click somewhere on the page and a context menu should appear. Select “Print” and a Print Dialog box should open. Near the top of the box on the left-hand menu there should be “Destination” and a “Change” button. Click on Change and select “Save as PDF”. Now the blue button at the top of the left-hand menu should say “Save” (instead of Print). Click on Save and choose where you want to save the document. It will save with all the text and graphics. Then you can open it with any PDF reader app.

Chrome Users – This works way better for me:

(Before clicking, for Windows Secrets I always copy the Issue and Date info to paste onto the beginning of the saved file – your choice)

1. On the web page – Right click and choose Save As
2. Select either Webpage, Complete or Webpage, HTML Only as file type depending on your preference (Complete works for me).
It also suggests a file name (here is where I add in the Issue and date from newsletter header).
3. Save it to your chosen folder.

Voila!

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Thanks Guys, very helpful in case I find that I can no longer afford WinSec… BUT, what about the Lounge? Altho presented as a separate log in, will I be dumped from the Lounge if I am no longer an expensive subscriber to WinSec? And I am not thinking that it would be practical to try to download The Lounge….

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Thanks Guys, very helpful in case I find that I can no longer afford WinSec… BUT, what about the Lounge? Altho presented as a separate log in, will I be dumped from the Lounge if I am no longer an expensive subscriber to WinSec? And I am not thinking that it would be practical to try to download The Lounge….

The Lounge is separate. You are not required to be a newsletter subscriber. As far as we know, it will remain so.

Joe

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