The Internet Using the Internet Web addresses Searching Favourites Saving / Printing web pages
Web addresses: UCH’s web address (or URL) is
Tabbed browsing – select tab
Save a website in your Favourites list
Choose ‘Favourites’ and “Add to Favourites”
Organising your Favourites You can….. Create folders Move between folders Drag to different folders Rename Delete
Select & Copy text / images To select text, click at the start of the text Hold the click, then move the mouse to the end of the text you want to copy The text becomes highlighted
Cut and paste a highlighted section into word: right-click and “copy”
Open word and click on the ‘paste’ icon
The work you selected can now be saved in word (Save As….)
You could choose to save the information directly from the web page - select ‘Page’ and ‘Save As’ from the toolbar
Saving Web pages, continued... Save as type: 1. Web Page complete… 2. Web Archive, single file… 3. Web Page, HTML only… 4. Text file… There maybe other options, depending on your browser! ***Remember to save your work on a pen drive or the ‘m’ drive.
Saving Web pages, continued... Web Page complete… This saves the page and creates a subfolder containing the graphics etc. Web Archive, single file… Does what it says on the tin: stores everything into a single file. Web Page, HTML only… Low graphics option.
Issues and solutions on printing from the internet Information does not fit on a standard A4 sheet Highlight what you need and save in a word document then print – as detailed in previous slides Printing un-necessary pages Choose “print preview”– see next slides
To print just what you need, select the printer icon drop-down arrow
Print preview – choose a layout
Printing from the Internet, continued.. Some Websites have, “Printer friendly” option, which formats the page for printing. Low Graphics option that may print better. Have the content available as a download. Shrink to fit, The latest browsers, such as Firefox, Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) etc. have this option: saves having to select Landscape format from the print setup.