Favourites & Bookmarks

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Use of Bookmarks or Favourites

There are over a billion web sites on the web and many of these have long and complicated URL's. Surfers need a way to remember where their preferred web sites can be found on the web.

Internet Explorer's Favourites and Netscape's equivalent Bookmarks are facilities that enable you to store the URL's of web sites. You can organise your favourite URL's into folders of related links - for instance in your Favourites you may have a Sports folder containing the URL's of the best sport web sites you have found.

When you add a Favourite or Bookmark it is stored with the title of the web page (the title of the web page appears in the blue top border of the browser window). You can change the title that is stored in your Favourites by right clicking the Favourite, and selecting Rename, then overtyping the original title. This will not affect the title on the actual web page, just your link to it.

To return to a previously bookmarked web site is a simple matter of selecting Favourites (or Bookmarks) and clicking the link to the site you want to visit.

Internet Explorer Favourites

There are two main ways of accessing your Favourites in IE - using the Favourites pull down menu, or using the Favourites button. The Favourites button toggles on and off. When it is on, it permanently displays your Favourites list alongside the left of the browser window, as well as providing options to add to, and organise your Favourites list.

To add a Favourite to your personal Favourites in Internet Explorer:

1. Visit the web site whilst connected to the Internet
2. Select the Favourites pull down menu or press the Favourites button.
3. Choose Add To Favourites
4. A dialog box appears asking you to choose which Favourites folder to add the URL to (or to create a new folder)
5. Select the appropriate folder and press OK
6. The URL that is in your Address Panel is added to your Favourites

To return to a previously-bookmarked favourite:

1. Select Favourites from the pull down menu or press the Favourites button.
2. Navigate to the particular web site title that you wish to visit
3. Click on the Web site title
4. IE now attempts to retrieve that web site for you Netscape Bookmarks

Netscape Navigator Favourites

To add a Bookmark to your personal Bookmarks in Netscape Navigator:

Visit the web page you wish to bookmark. Select the Bookmarks button. You have three main options:

1. Add Bookmark (The bookmark is added at the bottom of your Bookmark list.)
2. File Bookmark (A dialog appears asking you to select the folder to file the bookmark in)
3. Organise Bookmarks (Allows you to drag and drop, or cut and paste bookmarks between folders)

To return to a previously-bookmarked favourite:

1. Press the Bookmarks button. If the Bookmarks button is not visible its toolbar may be collapsed. Look for the small tab-like buttons at the top of the browser main window. Clicking once on these will expand the toolbar again.
2. Select the bookmark of the web site that you wish to visit
3. Netscape now attempts to retrieve that web site for you

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24-May-2008
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