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When you are net-surfing, sometimes you want/need to print out information you find because it is valuable. Upon occasion, when you print a window, the printout may take up many pages when you only want part of the information you find.That is a particularly wasteful method of getting information in hardcopy.

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Saving a Webpage for electronic copy

You can use a much less wasteful method of getting hardcopy of only the information you wantby using one of the current browsers (Netscape 3+ > and InternetExplorer 3+ >). They give you the ability to save the pages in electronic form.

Having downloaded the page by Saving it as a new file to your hard drive makes it possible for you to "edit down" the contents of the page/file so that it contains only the data you want to preserve as hardcopy. The unused, excess data is discarded.

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10-Step Cookbook for Editing Down web page content

1. Find the page you desire to edit down by surfing or typing the URL (That is the name for the address which usually starts with "http://" or "ftp://" - Universal Resource Locator).
   
   
2. Place the cursor over the part of the page which contains the information you would like to capture for editing.Then click. Make sure that when you do this, that the cursor does not change into a "hand". The hand indicates to you that you may click there to jump to the next page. You want to click in the part of the window containing you information but the cursor should remain a pointer.
   
   
3. Macintosh and Windows browser environments are virtually the same for this next operation.
   
   Having clicked once on the part of the page containing the desired information, next move your cursor to the Command Line at the top of the screen/window. [File Edit View Go...]
   
   
4. Scroll down the File menu to Save as...
   
   [Macintosh keyboard shortcut: Press Command-S (the open apple key + S) ]
   [Windows keyboard shortcut: Press Control-S ]
   
   
5. That action then displays a dialog box. The browser usually suggests a file name for you. You may choose a different name.
   
   
6. Navigate using the dialog box so that you save the file you are creating in a place which is logical and whose location on your hard drive you will remember.
   
   
7. Choose "Save" in the dialogue box. The file is placed onto your hard drive in the location you have chosen. This "Save" action only saves text contents of the page. Graphics and most "pretty" formatting are ignored. The "stripped" file contains only the text data from the window.
   
   
8. Switch to your favorite word processor or text editor and with it "Open" the file you just created on your hard drive with your browser's help.
   
   
9. Edit down (Reduce) the contents of your document so that only the desired information remains. That way, pages and pages of printed text/graphics are reduced considerably and your goal of saving resources is accomplished.
   
   Hint: If you have saved a number of different web pages containing related information (using the method described above), you can combine all by inserting them into one single document for printing.
   
   
10. Print your "compacted" document. You have saved costs and printing resources.