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The Internet. Using the Internet Web addresses Searching Favourites Saving / Printing web pages. Web addresses: UCH’s web address (or URL) is www.uch.ac.uk. Tabbed browsing – select tab. Save a website in your Favourites list. Choose ‘Favourites’ and “Add to Favourites”.
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The Internet Using the Internet Web addresses Searching Favourites Saving / Printing web pages
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”
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
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.