web page copying to Word

[Jock Ferguson]

I feel like a bit of a luddite but I can not find how to save exact copies
of web pages to a Word document

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Jock,

I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish, but I'm going to guess that
what you want to do is use a picture of a web page as an illustration in a
Word document. If that's the case, here's how I'd do it:

Take a screen shot of the web page. You can choose the whole screen, a
particular window or a selected section of the screen (see "Taking pictures
of your screen" in the Word Help). This will put a Picture file on your
hard drive which you can drag into your document and format as desired.

If you're trying for something else, please clarify.

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

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[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Jock,

"Exact copies" of web pages is in Word is only possible if Microsoft Word
was used to create the web pages. A web page is a text file with a list of
instructions for the browser to follow. Each browser follows those
instructions differently, which drives web page creators crazy sometimes.

Word can deal with simple web pages pretty well. Just go to Word's menu and
choose File > Open Web Page. Type in the URL and Word will do what it can
with the web page. Then you can use File > Save As and change it into a Word
document if you want.

Word won't display most web pages the way a real web browser would. The
purpose of Word's open web page feature is to grab a web page created
originally by Microsoft Word and restore it "exactly" in Microsoft Word. But
if the web page was not made by Word in the first place, an "exact"
reproduction in Word is usually not possible. You'll find that most
commercially produced web pages won't display well in Word.

An alternative is to select things within the web browser then paste them
into Word.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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