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Saving Web Pages

Occasionally, you may want to save an entire web page on your computer; this can be done easily by clicking on "File" on the menu bar of your browser, then clicking on "Save As". The "Save As" dialog box will appear. Browse through the "Save In" box to locate an appropriate folder to store the web page in.

Type in the filename; where possible keep the original name. Then in the "Save As Type" menu, you will have several options, the main three choices are:

1. Save as Web Page - HTML Only

Saves the web page as raw HTML code. This option will NOT save any graphics from the page or any other files used within the page, which means that if you loaded the file back from your local disk, you would see broken image links.

2. Save as Web Page - Complete

This option automatically saves all the files needed to display the web page, including graphics, frames and style sheets. The web page is saved as an .html file and the images and other files are automatically saved in a separate folder.

3. Save as Text File

This option saves the page in a pure text format that will allow you to read the document in a text editor or word processing program without any images, html code or hypertext links.

Once you have chosen your format, click the "Save" button. When you have saved a web page on your hard drive, you can open it in your browser and view the contents even when you're not connected to the Internet.