Thursday 2 May 2013

21. How to keep items from these pages you may find interesting or useful?





This will also work for any other item of interest you may wish to save from a web page.

Simply use Copy and Paste to create a separate file containing the items you want to keep. Start Microsoft Word or another good word processor to create a new document, and you can then start copying these items into it. Highlight text (see below) from a tip and press Ctrl+C to copy it to the clipboard, then switch back to your document, click at the point where you want the text to be placed and press Ctrl+V to paste it there. Save this document as ‘PC Tips’ or something equally recognisable. In future, whenever another tip arrives and you want to keep items from it, open this document again and copy-and-paste those items into it in the same way. As this document is yours, and fully editable, you can also add your own notes to it, format it in any way you’d like it, or even go the whole hog and add a table of contents at the beginning.

There are several ways to highlight the text on a web page but this one is probably the easiest. Place your mouse-cursor at the beginning of the text you wish to highlight and click. Next, hold down the Shift Key and move the cursor to the end of the required passage and click again. The text between these two click points will now be highlighted so you can then proceed with Ctrl+C instruction from above.


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