Can I save any page that is on my computer screen?
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It's called screen capture, and the easiest way to do it is to press the ALT + Print Screen keys time on your keyboard at the same . Then you open Paint and select the Edit menu and select paste. Then you can save the file to your hard drive. There are apps you can download on your PC like SnagIt and HyperSnap DX that do the same thing, but have more features like capturing specific elements on the screen like buttons, icons, menu bars, etc.
You use ALT + PrtScr so that you only capture the window you currently have open. When you press PrtScr only you capture the entire screen including the Start Menu, background wallpaper, desktop icons, etc. which might be quite big.
You use ALT + PrtScr so that you only capture the window you currently have open. When you press PrtScr only you capture the entire screen including the Start Menu, background wallpaper, desktop icons, etc. which might be quite big.
file - then save page as - creates a full webpage document on your computer
then there is work offline which no one uses
snipit tool can take a screen shot of the webpage on your computer - if you are using windows 7 or above.
then there is work offline which no one uses
snipit tool can take a screen shot of the webpage on your computer - if you are using windows 7 or above.
Can save the page as a picture as noted. Can also save the text. click on the page, press CTRL-A to select all or just select what you want, Press CTRL-C to copy all. Open Note Pad, Word or some similar program, paste the text. Can also save the webpage and layout if you want.
With Firefox or Safari you save a web page—this one included—on a Mac using the same routine as saving any other file. Go to the File Menu in the menubar, or click on the page and open a contextual menu, then choose Save as…. That will open the same dialogue you've always seen, asking where you want the saved file to go but after that it gets a bit weird, because some of what you see are files, pictures and such held elsewhere and only briefly showing on your screen.
So the saved page has to suck all that crap off the web and onto your drive, in order that the saved page can be rebuilt without knowing today's addresses for the pic on Photobucket and eBay. Firefox will give you a file with an .html extension, and so will Safari but they re-write the HTML to connect with where the other bits get stored on your box and do it differently. I like FF's approach which is to put all the other bits in a folder with the same name as the file. DO NOT move or re-name either if re-opening the page matters. Safari hides all the bumf away for a cleaner look, but if all I wanted was to collect the pretty pix …
Both browsers offer other choices in their dialogues. Web page complete\Web Archive is the 'on yr machine' version of the page. But you can also select just the HTML code, just the Text and versions I've never cared about in the dropdown menu at the bottom of the dialogue. If you want to get back to the original page you will have to save a URL, a .webloc or a bookmark for it on your own.
Also very useful, though not quite what you asked is TextEdit, which can save any part of a page you highlight: pictures, formatted text, links by drag and drop, or by copying and pasting into an .rtf window. That can give you a document with active links out to the web. And as mentioned, any sort of 'photography' of the page\window or part of it is also available in the usual ways.
So the saved page has to suck all that crap off the web and onto your drive, in order that the saved page can be rebuilt without knowing today's addresses for the pic on Photobucket and eBay. Firefox will give you a file with an .html extension, and so will Safari but they re-write the HTML to connect with where the other bits get stored on your box and do it differently. I like FF's approach which is to put all the other bits in a folder with the same name as the file. DO NOT move or re-name either if re-opening the page matters. Safari hides all the bumf away for a cleaner look, but if all I wanted was to collect the pretty pix …
Both browsers offer other choices in their dialogues. Web page complete\Web Archive is the 'on yr machine' version of the page. But you can also select just the HTML code, just the Text and versions I've never cared about in the dropdown menu at the bottom of the dialogue. If you want to get back to the original page you will have to save a URL, a .webloc or a bookmark for it on your own.
Also very useful, though not quite what you asked is TextEdit, which can save any part of a page you highlight: pictures, formatted text, links by drag and drop, or by copying and pasting into an .rtf window. That can give you a document with active links out to the web. And as mentioned, any sort of 'photography' of the page\window or part of it is also available in the usual ways.
In fact, you can just press the PRT SCRN button. Doing so saves a bitmap image of all that happens to be on the screen at that time, into the clipboard. Note that there is no message that tells you the screenshot is in the clipboard.
To open the saved file, you open e.g Windows PAINT, and press Ctl-V (paste). Note that the file is simply an image - you can't search for text, etc.
Yeah, I know. There is a difference using just PrtScr and Alt + PrtScr. PrtScr alone captures everything on the screen, while Alt +PrtScr captures only the window that you have open. Useful if you don't want to have a giant image.
Just take a Screenshot.
This is simple with Linux where you can easily save everything shown on your monitor, or you can pick out any section of that page to take a Screenshot of, ie the post you made:
CTRL-A selects the entire page. I can select part of a page or section if I highlight with my cursor, right click and select copy before I paste it.
A lot of people do not know it even exist, it is called the Snipping tool. If you have Windows Vista or later you have it. To find it go to your start menu and type in snipping tool at the bottom and it will appear. Right click to pin it to the start menu or quick start bar. To use the snipping tool, click on the tool the screen will turn white and then you can use your cursor to select the whole screen or take just the portion or pic you want. It will save to your photos.
If you want an exact copy of a webpage, then CTRL - A will only copy the text visible on the screen. Web pages almost always have invisible elements like tables, spaces and paragraph marks that don't copy well. The formatting tends to become garbled once you paste into Microsoft Word. You can paste into notepad, but all the formatting gets stripped out.
One thing to keep in mind is that you're going to have <IMG> and <VID> all over the place wherever there was an image or video on the screen. So you manually have to strip all of that out after you paste.
This is an example of what happens what you highlight a portion of text on a webpage and paste into notepad. It's definitely usable, but not be exactly what you're looking for.
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Can I save any page that is on my computer screen?
Can I save any page that is on my computer screen?
For example, can I save this TERB page we are now reading?
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not without taking a picture I don't think. You can do that on Iphone for sure, but you wouldn't be able to access a link or anything, its just a photo.
In actual fact, the webpage already exists entirely on your computer (in the browser's cache), but the easiest methods have already been discussed (screen cap or save page or cut/paste). To screen cap on a mac:
- Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop
- Command-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it as a file on the desktop
- Command-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it as a file on the desktop
- Command-Control-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it to the clipboard
- Command-Control-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it to the clipboard
- Command-Control-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it to the clipboard
- Space, to lock the size of the selected region and instead move it when the mouse moves
- Shift, to resize only one edge of the selected region
- Option, to resize the selected region with its center as the anchor point
Another thing to try is printing the web page to PDF. I think Chrome has that feature built in, but there are plenty of free PDF writers out there. The benefit of a PDF writer is that preserves most of the formatting on the screen and you can also copy the text out if you have to.
