• Adding a page to your list of favorite pages
• Adding a page to your Links bar
• Sharing bookmarks and favorites
• Searching
• Finding pages you've recently visited
• Making the current Web page available offline
• Saving a Web page on your computer
• How to Change Your Homepage

Adding a page to your list of favorite pages

• Go to the page you want to add to your Favorites list.
• On the Favorites menu, click Add to Favorites.
• Type a new name for the page if you want to.

Tips:

1. To open one of your favorite pages, click the Favorites menu, and then click the page you want to open.
2. As your list of favorite pages grows, you can organize them into folders.

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Adding a page to your Links bar

The Links bar is located next to the Address bar, which makes it a convenient place to add links to a few Web pages that you use frequently. Just click the link to display the page.

You can add a page to the Links bar in a variety of ways:

1. Drag the icon for the page from your Address bar to your Links bar.
2. Drag a link from a Web page to your Links bar.
3. Drag a link to the Links folder in your Favorites list.

Tips:

1. If the Links bar does not appear on the toolbar, click the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Links.
2. You also can organize your links by dragging them to a different location on the Links bar.

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Sharing bookmarks and favorites

Favorites, known as bookmarks in Netscape Navigator, are a convenient way to organize and link to Web pages that you visit frequently.

Internet Explorer automatically imports all your Netscape bookmarks. On the Favorites menu, click the Imported Bookmarks folder to view them.

If you use Internet Explorer on several computers, you can easily share favorites between computers by importing them. Also, if you use both Internet Explorer and Navigator, you can keep your favorites and bookmarks up-to-date with each other by importing them between programs.

• To import bookmarks or favorites, click the File menu, and then click Import and Export.
• To export favorites to bookmarks or favorites on the same or another computer, click the File menu, and then click Import and Export.

Notes:

• Exported favorites are saved as a regular HTML file, so either Internet Explorer or Navigator can import them. You can export a selected folder in your Favorites list, or all of your favorites.
• The exported favorites file is fairly small, so you can copy it to a floppy disk or network folder, or attach it to an e-mail message if you want to share the favorite items with other people.

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Searching

You can find information on the Web in a variety of ways.

1. Click the Search button on the toolbar to gain access to a number of search providers. Type a word or phrase in the Search box.
2. Type go, find, or ? followed by a word or phrase in the Address bar. Internet Explorer starts a search using its predetermined search provider.
3. After you go to a Web page, you can search for specific text on that page by clicking the Edit menu and then clicking Find (on this page).

Note: If a Web address doesn't work, Internet Explorer asks if you want to search for similar Web addresses. You can change this setting so that Internet Explorer searches automatically without prompting.

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Finding pages you've recently visited

There are several ways to find Web sites and pages you've viewed in the last few days, hours, or minutes.

To find a page you've seen in the last few days

1. On the toolbar, click the History button.

   The History bar appears, containing links for Web sites and pages visited in previous days and weeks.

2. In the History bar, click a week or day, click a Web site folder to display individual pages, and then click the page icon to display the Web page.

   To sort or search the History bar, click the arrow next to the View button at the top of the History bar.

To find a page that you just visited

• To return to the last page you viewed, click the Back button on the toolbar.
• To view one of the last nine pages you visited in this session, click the arrow to the side of the Back or Forward button, and then click the page you want from the list.

Tips:

1. You can hide the History bar by clicking the History button again.
2. You can change the number of days that pages are saved in the History list. The more days you specify, the more disk space is used on your computer to save that information.

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Making the current Web page available offline

1. On the Favorites menu, click Add to Favorites.
2. Select the Make available offline check box.
3. To specify a schedule for updating that page, and how much content to download, click Customize.
4. Follow the instructions on your screen.

Note: Before you go offline, make sure you have the latest version of your pages by clicking the Tools menu and then clicking Synchronize.

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Saving a Web page on your computer

1. On the File menu, click Save As.
2. Double-click the folder you want to save the page in.
3. In the File name box, type a name for the page.
4. In the Save as type box, select a file type.
   • To save all of the files needed to display this page, including graphics, frames, and style sheets, click Web Page, complete. This option saves each file in its original format.
   • To save all of the information needed to display this page in a single MIME-encoded file, click Web Archive. This option saves a snapshot of the current Web page. Note This option is available only if you have installed Outlook Express 5 or later.
   • To save just the current HTML page, click Web Page, HTML only. This option saves the information on the Web page, but it does not save the graphics, sounds, or other files.
   • To save just the text from the current Web page, click Text Only. This option saves the information on the Web page in straight text format.

Notes:

• With Web Page, complete and Web Archive, you can view all of the Web page offline, without adding the page to your Favorites list and marking it for offline viewing.
• When you choose Web Page, complete, only the current page is saved. If you want to view Web pages and the pages they link to while offline, see Related Topics.

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To change your home page:

Your home page is the page that is displayed every time you open Internet Explorer. Make sure it is a page that you want to view frequently.

• Go to the page you want to appear when you first start Internet Explorer.
• In the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
• Click the General tab.
• In the Home page area, click Use Current.

Tip: To restore your original home page, click Use Default.

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