Because your travels may not take you along a perfectly straight road, you often will find neat sites you want to visit again, but you may not remember how you got there. Bookmarks are a way of recording the address of a place you are visiting so that you can go there directly whenever you wish. Once you add a favorite site to your list, the address of that site stays until you remove it. Because it is so important to be able to keep track of favorite web sites and pages, Microsoft Internet Explorer offers different ways of creating Favorites. It can get pretty complicated. We will go through the most basic way. Try following the instructions below to actually save a Favorite.

To Add a Favorite Site

1. Go to the site you want to record as a favorite. Internet Explorer will record both the address of a site and the location of a page within that site.
2. Go to the Microsoft Internet Explorer Favorites menu by clicking on the word Favorites from the menu bar.
   
   
   
   
3. Click on Add to Favorites. You will see a box that looks like the one below:
   
   
   
   
4. Right now you are on the Personal Computer Tutor's Web Site page that teaches you about saving favorite sites. Naturally, this is one of your all-time favorite sites, so you will want to be able to get back to this page whenever you want. When you follow these instructions, Favorites will be saving the location of this page.
5. You will want to give this Favorite a name that will help you remember what this page is about. You will type in something like, "How to Save Favorite Sites". Do this now in the Add to Favorites dialog box.
6. Click OK. The location of this page will be added to your list of favorite locations.

Organizing Your Bookmarks
You could just keep adding favorite sites and pages, and your list of favorites would grow. But after awhile, you might find this is a problem. When you have 67 favorite sites listed in your Favorites, it could take you as long to find the one you want as it would to go on the Net and find it again. What you really need to do is to organize the sites into folders. That way you can store favorites in a way that means something to you. Each folder will then have a small number of sites so that you can quickly find the one you want. To make folders:

Click on Favorites from the menu bar.

Click on Organize Favorites and the dialog box and you will see the box below. (Only the How to Save Favorite Sites site may be shown if it is the only one you have made so far.)

You will see a box with the words "New Folder" in it. Type the name of the folder you want to make. For example, you might want to add sites about Recipes. In the Organize Favorites dialog box, type the words "Recipes".

Press Enter. You have just created a folder called "Recipes" where you can store the addresses of your favorite Web sites about Recipes.

Click on the Close button.

You now have a folder where you can store all of your favorite Recipes, but "How to Save Favorite Sites" isn't in that folder. You need to move "How to Save Favorite Sites" into the folder Web Help. To do this:

1. Click on Favorites on the top menu bar.
2. Click on Organize Favorites from the menu that appears.
3. Click on How to Save Favorite Sites. It will be highlighted.
4. Drag and drop How to Save Favorite Sites onto the Web Help folder. (Click on the Drag and Drop for instructions.)

Any time you want to save (bookmark) a Web Site, just click on the Favorites Icon on the Tool Bar, or click on the Favorites Menu. Then click on Add.

You can also right click anywhere on the page that you want to bookmark, with your Mouse and the menu you see on the left will pop up.

Click on Add to Favorites...

The Add Favorite Box will Pop up, where you can enter the the Site Information. You can use anything you want for the name, just make it something that will make it easy for you to remember.
Don't forget to use the Create in >> button here, to place the the Favorite in the proper folder.

A Note About Printing
Print only what you absolutely need to. Printing is more expensive than you think. It's obviously not that expensive to buy a piece of paper. But paper is not the main expense, Ink Cartridges are. When you add it all up, printing can cost almost eight cents per page! Whenever possible, store information on disk. If you do need a paper copy of a document, also called a hard copy, follow these instructions:

Printing from Microsoft Internet Explorer
Most of you are probably using Internet Explorer to browse this page right now, so to try printing a Internet Explorer document, you can print this page. Follow the instructions below to first print this entire page, and then to print just a portion of it:

To print the entire message
If you click Print in Microsoft Internet Explorer, the entire Web page will be printed, even if you have highlighted only one section. (The exception to this is Internet Explorer Version 5.5 which has a Print Preview feature, allowing you to select from 1 to as many pages you want to print, or you can select any page to print.)

Selective printing from Microsoft Internet Explorer
To print selected text, you need to save it to the clipboard, then put it into a word processor. To do this you must:

1. Bring the Web document up on your screen.
2. Select the text you want to print.
3. Click Edit in the menu bar at the top of the page (not the box with the picture of a pencil in it).
4. Click on Copy. (Or use the Control Key and C)
5. Minimize Microsoft Internet Explorer.
6. Open your word processor.
7. Click Edit in the top menu (not the box with the picture of a pencil in it).
8. Click Paste. (Or use the Control Key and V)
9. Repeat these steps until you have collected your all of your information and pasted it into this document. Print your document only when you have collected all of your information.

Selective printing will also work in Outlook Express & other Microsoft applications.

More to come.......