Export Mac Internet Explorer Favorites



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	Course Homepage Course Modules: Online Community Background Information Basic Web Searching Managing Resources Advanced Web Searching Comprehensive Web Search Strategies Course Projects Assessment	Exporting Your Internet Explorer Favorites: Mac Open Internet Explorer. Open the Organize Favorites window. Navigate to the File menu. Select Export or Export Favorites. When the dialog box appears, select the desktop as the destination for the file. Now, change the default favorites.html or bookmark.htm file name to to your first initial followed by your last name (example: bjost.htm) Important Note: Use only lower-case letters. Do not use any spaces and be sure to include the .htm suffix. Save the renamed favorites file. Navigate to the desktop and open your exported favorites. You should see your entire Bookmarks file displayed as a webpage on your screen. Clicking on the links should take you to the associated webpage. You will notice that this process exported your entire Favorites list. If your word processor is capable of editing webpages, you can edit the webpage, removing the folders and bookmarks that you do not wish to include. How to send your exported Bookmarks / Favorites as an e-mail attachment Importing your Bookmarks / Favorites to another web browser back

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	Course Homepage Course Modules: Online Community Background Information Basic Web Searching Managing Resources Advanced Web Searching Comprehensive Web Search Strategies Course Projects Assessment	Exporting Your Internet Explorer Favorites: Mac Open Internet Explorer. Open the Organize Favorites window. Navigate to the File menu. Select Export or Export Favorites. When the dialog box appears, select the desktop as the destination for the file. Now, change the default favorites.html or bookmark.htm file name to to your first initial followed by your last name (example: bjost.htm) Important Note: Use only lower-case letters. Do not use any spaces and be sure to include the .htm suffix. Save the renamed favorites file. Navigate to the desktop and open your exported favorites. You should see your entire Bookmarks file displayed as a webpage on your screen. Clicking on the links should take you to the associated webpage. You will notice that this process exported your entire Favorites list. If your word processor is capable of editing webpages, you can edit the webpage, removing the folders and bookmarks that you do not wish to include. How to send your exported Bookmarks / Favorites as an e-mail attachment Importing your Bookmarks / Favorites to another web browser back

Fresno Pacific University \| School of Professional Studies

Website maintained by Bob Jost \| bjost@josts.net \| last revised June 10, 2004 Copyright © 1998-2002 by Bob Jost & Geoffrey Jost. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be transmitted, stored or recorded in any form without written permission from the authors.