Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 Tips #7



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*1. AFTERTHOUGHT        
  
To save a Web page to your hard drive, choose File, Save As File
 and give it a name. (Note that the file won't contain any images
 or graphic files that appear on the Web page.)  

What if you'd like to save a page after you've already
 disconnected? You can locate the page in your History folder. To
 do this, run Windows Explorer and locate your History Folder
 (it's probably in \Windows). Open the History folder and find
 the Web page you'd like to copy. This requires a bit of
 intuition, since the names may look weird. 

Once you've located the file, double-click its icon to open it in
 Internet Explorer. Now choose File, Save As File and save it
 just as if you were online. (You may be prompted with a download
 window that asks if you want to open the file or save it to
 disk. If this happens, choose Save It To Disk and click OK.)


*2. HOW DID THEY DO THAT?        
  
Thinking of designing your own Web page? To learn how good pages
 are built, take a look at the source code. Navigate to a page
 you like and choose View, Source. This opens the page in HTML
 format in a NotePad window. 

To use the page as a reference, print it out by choosing File,
 Print. Or save the page using the File, Save As File command.
 Find a location for the file when the Save As dialog box opens,
 give it a name, and click Save. 

One thing you must never do is take pages from other sites and
 use them as your own. It's one thing to learn from the experts,
 but quite another to steal from them!


*3. SEE WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE        
  
In Internet News, you get to choose which messages you want to
 see. To see only messages you haven't read, choose View, Unread
 Messages Only. To see all the newly downloaded messages, plus
 the old ones still stored on your computer, choose View,
 All Messages. 

You can also decide whether to view message text in a preview
 pane or in a separate window. Choose View, Preview Pane and then
 select either Split Vertically or Split Horizontally. If you
 decide to split your panes vertically, the preview appears on
 the right side of the News window. If you choose to split them
 horizontally, the preview appears at the bottom of the window.


*4. IE5, IF YOU DARE        
  
Interested in making the leap to Microsoft Internet Explorer 5?
 Microsoft says it's very, very fast--the fastest of all modern
 browsers. But some friends of ours who tried it had trouble with
 their computers pretty quickly. When it works, IE5 gets high
 praise for its customization options and adaptability. And
 plenty of users have found it perfectly stable. If you're brave
 enough to try it out, you can download it from 

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie 

Versions of IE5 are available for most operating systems, from
 Windows 3.1 to Windows 2000, including several non-Microsoft
 operating systems.


*5. ALPHABET SOUP        
  
We've run these golden oldies before, but we still get requests
 for them. Without further ado, here are some of the most common
 acronyms found in newsgroups (and in some e-mail): 

AFAIK;As far as I know 
BTW;By the way 
EOM;End of message 
HTH;Hope this helps 
IMO;In my opinion 
IMHO;In my humble opinion 
IMNSHO;In my not so humble opinion 
IOW;In other words 
LOL;Laughing out loud (some people seem to use this for
 "lots of luck") 
OIC;Oh, I see 
ROTFL;Rolling on the floor laughing 
TIA;Thanks in advance 
TTFN;Ta ta for now 
YMMV;Your mileage may vary 

While we're at it, how about all those symbols known as
 emoticons? Here are a few. 

:-) 
Smile 
:-D 
Laughing 
;-) 
Winking 
:-/ 
Scowling 
:-O 
Surprise 
>:( 
Angry 
:'-( 
Crying 
:-p 
Sticking out the tongue 

Be careful with these--people take them very seriously!


*6. WHAT KIND OF PICTURE IS THAT?        
  
When you save pictures you find on the Internet, you right-click
 the picture and choose Save Picture as. This opens the Save As
 dialog box. You need to add a name and select a location for
 the picture. 

Often you can control what graphics file type the image gets
 saved as. To see what's offered, click the arrow at the right
 side of the Save As Type list box. In many cases, you can save
 the picture as a GIF or BMP file. Which should you choose? It
 depends on what you want to do with the picture. 

If the picture is animated, you have to save it as a GIF file, or
 you'll lose the animation. On the other hand, if you want to use
 the picture as wallpaper, you should save it as a BMP file. 

Note: We're not suggesting that you grab copyrighted pictures
 from the Internet and use them in your own pages. If you copy a
 picture and decide you'd like to use it, you need to first find
 out who owns it and any restrictions on its use.


*7. FISH-WRAP EXPRESS        
  
You can save News messages by choosing File, Save Message. You
 can also save a News message by choosing File, Save As. When the
 Save Message As dialog box opens, click the arrow at the right
 of the Save As Type list box. You get two choices--you can save
 the file as a News (*.nws) message or as a Mail (*.eml) message.
 Saving the News message as a text file is not an option. 

Take your pick and then name the file, choose the folder,
 and click Save.


*8. SEEK AND YOU SHALL FIND        
  
Want to find an item on a Web page? Let's say you're looking at a
 long document, and what you really want from it is information
 about the Virgin Islands. You can choose Edit, Find to open the
 Find dialog box. Type the search word or words and click
 Find Next. 

You can open the Find dialog box quickly if you press Ctrl-F
 (just as in Word for Windows).


*9. SEND ME NO FLOWERS        
  
Want to send some flowers for no particular reason? Just to say
 hello, how's it going? Go to 

http://www.virtualflorist.com 

and send that special someone some virtual flowers.
 They're a lot cheaper than roses. 

The recipient gets an e-mail message that includes the pick-up
 address. All the recipient has to do is click the address to see
 the flowers and the message you composed.


*10. PRETTY AS A PICTURE        
  
You can view pictures stored on your hard drive using Internet
 Explorer. This works for any picture file with the extension GIF
 or JPG. To open a picture in Internet Explorer, choose File,
 Open. When the dialog box appears, click Browse. This launches
 the standard Open dialog box. In this dialog box, click the
 arrow at the right side of the Files Of Type list box and select
 All Files. Now locate and select the file you want to view and
 click Open. Next click OK to view the selected file. 

Note that you have no control over picture size in the Microsoft
 Internet Explorer browser. The browser only displays the file
 at its actual size--you can't zoom in or out.
