How to Print

How to Print or Save What You Find “Web Surfing”

So you found just what you were looking for on the web. Now what?

You have a number of different ways to get what you want, although most people first think of printing out a page. Since this looks the most visible and ‘real’ to a lot of folks, we will begin with ‘File/Print’.
If you are not familiar with a pull-down menu, both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator have this feature on a menu bar. The first word on the left of the menu is ‘File’. With your mouse, click on that word to pull down a whole menu.

Look for the word ‘Print’, and click on that. A box will pop up that has printer information. Just click the ‘Okay’ button and the page will be printed.

The document that you printed has the ‘URL’ listed at the top, like: ‘http://www.indigosun.com’. It also has the date you printed it, which will help you find it if you need to.

But what if the page you want is in frames? Go ahead and click the ‘File’ word on the menu bar. Unless you have a very old browser, a new option called ‘Print Frame’ will appear. Since this usually refers to the big page on the right and not little scroll list on the left, you can just click on that and get what you want. If you want to be sure, click ‘Print Preview’ under ‘File.’ A picture of the pages you will be printing comes up, so you have a picture of your final printed document.

But, what if it doesn’t show the page you wanted? Right mouse click on the page you want, and click on ‘Open page in another browser?’ The page will appear by itself so you can print it out.

So, what is ‘right mouse click?’ Unless you are on a Mac, your mouse has two buttons, a left and right one. The left one is the one you use the most, but the right mouse button also has functions, and will bring up a separate list of options when you click on it. One of the options is to open the page in another browser. If you click on this, the frames disappear and your selection comes up in a page all by itself. If it is the page you want, ‘File/Print’ will get you a printed document.

But, let us suppose for a minute that this is a long document, and you really don’t want to print out the whole thing, or you want to use parts of it, not the whole thing.

First, you can save it, by clicking on ‘File/Save As’, and save it to the ‘A’ or ‘B’ drive, if you have a diskette in the floppy drive. Second, if you only want little bits and pieces, you can take your mouse, press down on the left mouse button, drag it over the text that you want to highlight it. Let it go carefully, then on the menu bar, next to ‘File’, click on the word, ‘Edit’. Choose ‘Copy’ and click on that. Go to the Start button, if you are in Windows95 or 98, and pull up Notepad, or Wordpad under ‘Programs/Accessories’. On the menu bar in the program you just pulled up, again click on ‘Edit’, and then on ‘Paste’. That way you can save a small portion of the text to print out from Notepad or Wordpad then or at a later time.

But what if it was the picture you wanted, and you did not necessarily want a sad little grey replication from a laser printer. You can do this, too. Remember ‘right mouse click’? This time, place the mouse over the picture, and right mouse click. That same menu will come up. Look for ‘Save Image As,’ and click on that. The same box that pops up for saving text pops up again. All you have to do is choose your drive letter at the top, and click ‘Save’.

And, what if you have big plans to print the whole web page out in color on your color printer, or even take it in to be done on professional equipment? If you want the whole thing, meaning the whole screen, you can get that, too. With the screen on the window of your browser, just press the ‘Print Screen’ button located on your keyboard, then pull up ‘Windows/Paint’, and use ‘Edit/Paste’. The whole screen will come up and you are in business.

While you are doing all this printing, saving and pasting, check to see if the site or picture is copyrighted. Some things are not okay to take and you could be in big trouble if you do. However, many educational institutions and the government have lots of free information, so happy printing!

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