Often in following a Thread I come across one or two really helpful tips & would like to Print them from my browser.
Is there a way to do this without Printing the entire Thread?
Sorry for the seemingly simple question but I am stumped.
Thanx!
…John
John,
I just experimented with your post. I left clicked my mouse at the beginning of your text, scrolled down to the bottom highlighting your text and then right clicked and selected ‘copy’. I opened Word, clicked ‘paste’ and your text appeared. I don’t see why you couldn’t do the same across several responses and then save them as a document.
Don Z.
You can do the highlighting and just send it right to the printer, just make sure you click the “Selection” button in the PRINT screen, Print Range section. There are 3 choices: ALL; Pages From __ To___ ; and Selection. Choosing Selection will only print whatever is highlighted. Just make sure it is highlighted.
[D)] D’OH! I don’t know why I overlooked the print option instead of doing it the hard way…
Don Z.
But your way allows one to collect the info and save it digitally. A good option too if you like to keep things in a digital format.
You’ve already received good advice. Not an answer to your question but – food for thought:
I prefer to store as much as possible digitally. You can easily store the entire thread, including the tips you want, by clicking on the browser toolbar “page”, “save as”, and then in “save as type”, select Web Archive, Single File (*mht). Of course, you have to indicate (at the top of the dialogue box) where you want to save it. Also, you can re-name it so that you remember what the info is you’re saving.
When you want to refer to the re-named tip, click on it and … the saved webpage reappears completely.
I use this technique especially to save photos on websites. As opposed to saving just the .jpg photo file, this saves the entire page, not just the pix.
Saved your thread before submitting this and the file was just 191kb, so it won’t use up a lot of space on your computer.
That’s *.HTM(L) [tup]
True, exept on dynamic pages (like these forums), as the information will change, and then your saved page will be somewhat useless (mostly if there is a new post that clarifies or offers another solution, or an edit to an existing post for the same). A copy saved on your PC will not reflect the changes made here.
A better solution for forums would be to bookmark the page, and just make a folder for the bookmarks. For example, I have a folder structure in my bookmarks that is like “Trains → MRR Forums → {pages}” for anything i find here. Other train sites would be under different categories, such as prototype, other forums (atlas, and a few others), etc.
Your save the webpage approach does very well however for personal sites that don’t change much (IE Tstage’s website), or for historical societies (I’ve found that when they change the layout, they break links, and then it’s nearly impossible to find the page(s) I’m looking for).
While there isn’t much overhead from doing this, you will be saving unnecessary information (ie the HTML of the page itself) – all you’re after is the image.
You can also copy the text and paste it into Notepad without having to open a word processing program. Print it or save it, your choice.
Because of all the extra web graphics and text I will copy specific sections of text and images within threads and then paste them into a Word document. Then I run a spell check and save the file in my Model Railroading folder on the PC. This way I can build my own data base of information and even print them out later on when I want to have them in the train room.
Thanks for all the tips!
I work in the Mac world & now have found that the easiest way is to:
Copy & paste the text into a Word document;
Drag any diagram or picture (.jpg or .gif file) to my desktop;
Drag the picture to my new Word document;
Format as needed.
It sounds complicated but, once the document is formatted, it is quick & easy.
Now I can build up a ‘Tips & Tricks’ Manual of my own making from all the great info shared on our forums.
What a great way to learn!!
Now, back to layout construction & wiring!!
…John