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Did you ever come across something on
a webpage that you wanted to save? a recipe maybe, or some words of
wisdom, or whatever?
There are 2 easy methods of saving,
depending what you want to do.
First you can save it to your desktop; you can
print it out later if you need to; or, you can print directly from the
webpage.
Let's do first things first:
Open notepad; start/ all
programs/ accesories/ notepad; ok, go to your webpage; highlight what
you want to save by dragging your cursor over the words; right click and
choose "copy"; now go back to your notepad by clicking on notepad
on your taskbar; right click and choose "paste"; there you have
it.
Now, supposing you wanted to
save something else; go back to the webpage, highlight what you
want to keep, go back to notepad, put your cursor where you want the entry
to be, then right click and paste.Ok now, let's save it.
Click FILE at the top of notepad, click on save
as; where it says File name, erase what is there and give your file a
name; ex: "muffin recipe" at the very top of the saving window, next to
"save in" make sure you have desktop; if you don't, browse by
clicking on the little arrow and choose desktop; now click on
"save" . You can go to your desktop
and open your new file. You can add your own words in there; you can
change the content as you wish. If you make any changes, when you go to
close, it will ask you if you want to save the changes; say yes and it
will overwrite the old file. No sweat.
I like Notepad for things like this. It is a
very simple program; it is limited in what it can do, but it does the job
for copying and saving text.
OK, just for fun, supposing you have a folder
in "My Documents" entitled "Recipes" (one you have created of course) Did
I show you how to do that earlier when we were talking about
saving pictures? I think so....anyway as I was saying supposing you
have a recipe folder in My Documents and you have now decided that you
want to have this new recipe in your recipe folder and not on your
desktop, what do you do?
There are many ways to do that; the one I find
the simplest is : right click on the new file; choose "cut"; go to My
Documents; open your Recipe folder; right click on a blank spot and choose
"paste"; There it is!!!! Now, go back to your desktop; is it also there?
Noooo....you cut it; if you had chosen copy instead of
cut, it would still be there and you could delete at will from your
desktop either by right clicking and choosing delete or by dragging
it into your recycle bin.
There you have it for saving; at any time, you
can open such a file and print it. Open it, choose file and print and do
your thing with your printer. | 
