How to save a web page and email it to someone

Posted on March 26, 2007 at 6:49 pm

This is just one of those posts to share some of the common questions I get when I help people out with their computer problems! I’ll explain how you can save a web page and email that page to someone you know. Maybe it’s an article or something, but there is no “Email This” link anywhere on the page or maybe you just want to save the page for later viewing!

Either way, here are the steps to for saving the HTML page:

1. Go to File and then click on Save As…. If you’re using IE 7, your menu bar might be missing altogether! To see the menu bar, press the ALT key on your keyboard and you should get the menu. If you want the menu bar to remain visible in IE 7 permanentely, go to Tools -> Toolbars - and check Menu Bar.

2. In the Save Webpage dialog box, type in the name for your file. You have four options under Save as Type as follows:

a. Webpage, complete - This option will save the current page as an HTML file and will download all the pictures from the web site and create a separate folder for the pictures.

b. Web Archive, single file - This is the default option and the best option if you want to email someone the web page. The web page and all of the associated pictures are saved into one file, making it easy to simply attach that one file to your email.

c. Webpage, HTML only - Same as option A, except that none of the pictures are downloaded, only the HTML for the page. Usefule if the page is mostly just text and doesn’t have pictures.

Save the file to a easy location, like your desktop or My Documents. Now all you have to do is attach the file to your email just like you would a picture or any other file.

As a side note, if you’re interested in saving a part of a page for personal use or you find yourself saving pages into a folder and all you want is kind of a “clipping” of that page, you can use Google Notebook to store pieces of web pages by simply selecting the section, right clicking and choosing Add to Google Notebook. The notebook is easily accessible from IE and you can create different notebooks for different topics.

Click here to see my guide to using Google Notebook.

As another side note, if you’re intersted in downloading an entire web site so that you can view it offline when you’re not connected to the internet, then you can use a software called HTTrack, which is a web site copier that can download an entire web site while maintaining it’s directory structure, links, and images! All you need is space on your computer!

Hope this helped!

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