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Step-By-Step January 2000 • Vol.6 Issue 1 |
 How To . . . Send Web Pages Or URLs Via E-mail | ||
 You have been on the Web for hours when you come across a page you want to send to a friend, family member, or co-worker. You could carefully copy down the universal resource locator (URL, Web address) of the Web page and type it into an e-mail, but the URL is long, and the chances of making a copying mistake are huge. There must be a better way!  Let The Site Do The Work. Many sites expect that visitors will want to send copies to others, so they provide a link on the page to do just this. You will find these links at sites such as Slate (http://www.slate.com). Clicking the e-mail link takes you to a form where you supply the e-mail address of the recipient, your e-mail address, and perhaps a brief message. Using this approach has several advantages. First, the site usually reformats the information for e-mail. Second, when the information spans more than one Web page, the site will combine it into a single e-mail. Third, the recipient can view the information even after it is removed from the original Web site. The main drawback is that any images are lost in the Web-to-e-mail conversion process. ( NOTE: Even though built-in links are the easiest way to send Web pages to others, most Web pages lack these links.) Let The Browser Do The Work. You can also send the information from a Web page or its URL through your browser. Your browser, whether it is Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, will automatically reformat any Web page you send through it so it correctly fits inside the e-mail message. In Netscape Navigator, click the File menu and select Send Page on a frameless Web page. On a page with frames, click inside the frame to send and then click and select the Send Frame command from the File menu. In either case, Netscape sends a nicely formatted message with all the text, including working links and a link to the original Web page. Internet Explorer works similarly, but it has the ability to send just the URL or the entire page. To send the URL, select Send from the File menu and then select Link By E-mail from the drop-down menu. To send the entire page, open the File menu, select Send, and click Page By E-mail from the drop-down menu.
You Send The URL. To send the URL yourself, click your browser's Location (Netscape Navigator) or Address (Internet Explorer) toolbar. (This toolbar contains the URL you are presently viewing.) When you click the URL, your browser will automatically highlight the entire address. With the entire URL highlighted, click the Edit menu and select Copy. This places the URL into the Windows Clipboard. Now load your e-mail program and write a message to your recipients telling them about this Web page. To finish in most e-mail programs, insert the URL by clicking the Edit menu and selecting the Paste command. When the recipients receive this message, most e-mail programs will allow them to double-click the URL to automatically load their browser and jump to that Web page. Send The Text. You can also send the text yourself without going through the browser. This is easy to do, but the results may not be what you expect. If the Web page uses frames, the first step is to click inside the frame that contains the text you want to send. Next, click the Edit menu and click the Select All command. This highlights all the information on the Web page or in the frame. If you want only part of the text, you can manually highlight just the text you want. Now click the Edit menu and select Copy. This places the highlighted text into the Windows Clipboard. You are now ready to paste this text into an e-mail message, as described above. You can also use the same approach to paste the information into a document to save on your own machine. The text on the Web page is formatted to fit on the Web page, not your e-mail program or document. As a result, it may have extra spaces before or after the text, and each line will most likely have a hard return. If there is extra text, links, or text-based ads on the page, you will get those, as well. Additionally, the links will no longer work, and this method does not copy the images. by Ronny Richardson |
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