Favourite Topics. Saving them.

[Poignard]

I now have quite a lot of threads from this forum with useful information [to me] that I have put into "My Favourite Topics". It is getting a bit unwieldy and not easy to find anything.

Is there any simple way I can transfer the whole lot to a file, sort it into different folders and edit it with Word?

 

[Steve Clayton]

In your favourites set up a new "Forum" folder and put your links in there.

Alternatively do a search and find your favorites folder (note the american spelling), open it and treat it like any other folder; add subfolders, move items into folders, etc.

 

[No1_Moose]

you could print each thread to pdf if you have the adobe whatsit to do it, not sure which adobe whatsit you need but I have it on some computers and not on others, erm, sorry

 

[ShipsWoofy]

Another way to save them without pdf is to press the print icon bottom left and the forum will offer you a text only version which you can copy and paste into word for example.

May not be as neat as pdf but is how I save private messages I wish to keep.


EDIT>> that didn't work right, I am sure it used to do the whole thread rather than each post????

 

[TonyD]

Use the "Print Topic" tag at the top of the page, in the dark blue header bar. Then Edit, Select All, and cut and paste into your favourite word processor.

 

[ShipsWoofy]

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Use the "Print Topic" tag at the top of the page, in the dark blue header bar. Then Edit, Select All, and cut and paste into your favourite word processor.

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ahhh.. what ee said!

I knew there was a way to do it.

 

[DeeGee]

I wonder how long the material is accessibly archived? With the cost of hard disk space these days, they sehould be able to keep it on line for ever, so all you really need to keep is the url, surely? Terabyte about £330 /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Poignard]

Brilliant! Thanks for the advice, chasps

 

[TrueBlue]

A bit late, sorry,

I use Pdf Factory Pro. - www.pdffactory.com

It installs as a printer, and because it doesn't print anything directly, you can add several topics (or whatever) as you would send jobs to a print queue.

You can print the results later if you really have to, but I find that I hardly print anything now - the resulting files are quite small so it doesn't eat up my hard disk.

Not only have I saved money, several forests, but the info is easy to find and manage.

The trial version just puts a footnote "stolen from FinePrint" or some such - but works forever. Their companion product Fine Print also does magical printing with multiple pages and allsorts, but you do have to pay for it to achieve anything.

Well worth the money.