Saving The Contents Of A Web Page Into My Documents.

[anotheoldgit]

When I save a web page into My Documents, it creates two different icons one a Folder which contains various files and another a Firefox one, which when I click on contains the web page that I wanted, but if I delete the folder that contains various unwanted icons it also deletes the Firefox file.

Why is this?

[Buenchico]

Unlike a Word document (which is just a single file containing all of the information required), a web page consists of a set of instructions for putting the page together (which is the Firefox file you refer to) and the various elements that go to make up that page, such as the text, graphics and so on (which are in the folder you refer to). Both files are needed to create a web page.

[anotheoldgit]

Buenchico

Thank you very much for your answer, is there any way that I can put the web page information that I require into a Word document, without the need of a copy/paste procedure?

[Buenchico]

Copy and paste is the only realistic way to achieve it unless you'd settle for a screen shot. (Press PrtScrn, which dumps a screen shot into your computer's memory. Then go to a Word document and paste the screen shot into it. If you need to edit the screen shot first, paste it into Paint instead).

[jno]

if you have some sort of snipping tool on your computer (if you haven't, there are some you can download free), you can use it to highlight just those parts of a page you want to copy; then as Buenchico says, paste it into a Word document. The advantage over screen shots is that the latter print your entire page, including any bookmarks etc, which you may not want.

The disadvantage of both is that they copy only what you can see on your screen at any given time - not stuff lower down that you have to scroll down to look at.

[anotheoldgit]

Thank you for your answers, I tried the copy and paste method, but when I had highlighted all the text my R/H mouse button would not display a menu enabling me to copy and paste.

[Buenchico]

I've no idea why your right mouse button wouldn't give you the relevant options but it's worth remembering that Ctrl+C is the same as 'Copy' and Ctrl+V is the same as 'Paste'.