How To Save Your Favorite Threads with Pics For Later Viewing, Printout, Or Email.

Dallas59 ^ | 10/24/04 | Dallas59

[Dallas59]

I save my favorite threads from Free Republic in a folder for later viewing offline or to send in an email to friends. This is how I do it in Internet Explorer and XP. Forgive my grammar and spelling.

First I make a new folder on my desktop to save the web page the discussion is on.

To make a new folder on your desktop, right click on your desktop. A gray box will appear.

Move your arrow to “New”.

A second gray box will appear with “Folder” at the top.

Move your arrow over to “Folder” and left click.

You should now have a “New Folder” on your desktop. At this point you can rename your folder to anything you like. I renamed mine to “Freepers”.



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If you want to save a discussion on Free Republic this is how I do it.

Go to the discussion web page you want to save on Free Republic.

Left click on “Edit” in the left hand corner of the web page in IE.

Move your arrow down to “Select All”. Left click. All the words and pics should be now highlighted.

Now left click “File” in the left hand corner of the web page.

Move your arrow down to “Save As”. Left click.



A box will appear with a list of destinations for you to choose.

Move your arrow up to the pull down menu tab. Left click.

Choose “Desktop”. Left click.

Move your arrow down to the folder you created on your desktop. If you didn’t rename it should appear as “New Folder”. Double left click on the Folder ICON.

A box will appear with name of the file at the bottom which should be the title of the thread you are saving, Below that, “Save Type As” that should state next to it, “Web page, complete (*.htm, *html). Below that, “Encoding” which I have set to save as “Western European (ISO)”.



Now, left click on “Save”.

Go back to your desk top and open the Folder you created.

You should have an “E” icon. Click on that and IE should open with the web page you saved.



You can do this with all pages of the thread. You can save other web pages the same way, but you may have to choose a different “Encoding” like, “Western European (Windows)”.

[Dallas59]

My Sister asked me how to do this. Thought I'd share. If you have another way, please post it.

[dennisw]

Thanks Roberto!

[Dallas59]

Heh...heh...Dave...Don....Bill...

[Dallas59]

You can view the webpage without being connected to the internet.

[Stoat]

You can also simply go to the "file" menu in your browser and save the page as an MHT file instead, and save it to any location you like, including your My Documents folder (less desktop congestion)....this allows you to save the page as a simple single file and rename it any way you like for easy reference later.

You can also use an "atomic powered" bookmark manager such as PowerMarks

Powermarks Bookmark Manager and Personal Search Engine which allows you to assign an unlimited number of keywords to any bookmarked page. So, if you save a bookmark with something like Powermarks, you can add any number of keywords to help you find it as well as other similar pages in the future.

[Dallas59]

Never tried MHT...Thanks!

[Stoat]

You're quite welcome :-) Be advised that you don't need to select text beforehand...the entire page and all text will be saved in a simple single file.

[Dallas59]

Learn something everyday!

[Dallas59]

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[solitas]

Geez - all that trouble.
In OSX we just do a File/Print and choose 'Save as PDF'...

Isn't there a windows app that will act like a virtual printer and do the same thing?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

It would be a lot easier to drag and drop the little blue "e" in the address bar that leads the URL, into your new desktop folder. Just resize the IE window down a bit so your desktop and the new folder shows up behid it.