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Have you
ever wanted to share your prized genealogy collection of Internet Explorer
Favorites or Netscape Bookmarks with friends or relatives? It's easy to create
an HTML file of your favorite sites and their URLs, which can then be posted to
the Web for easy viewing, or attached to an email message and sent to anyone you
wish:
Sharing Favorites in
Internet Explorer
- Open
Internet Explorer
- Select
Import and Export from the File Menu
- When
the Import & Export Wizard opens, click Next
- Select
Export Favorites and click Next
- Choose
the main Favorites folder, or subfolder that you wish to share
- Click
Export to a File or Address
- Choose
the location where you wish to save the new file and click Next
- Click
Finish and OK
Sharing Bookmarks in Netscape Navigator
- Open Netscape
- Select Bookmarks from the main menu or press
Ctrl +B to open your bookmarks menu
- Select the bookmark file that you want to share, then
choose File/Save as from the File Menu.
- Choose the location on your computer where you wish to
save the new file
- Save the file as an HTML file (.htm) if you want to
create a list full of clickable links or want your friends to be able to
import the links into their own bookmarks program.
- If you want a list of the names of your bookmarks as
well as their URLs, save it as a text file (.txt). These URLs will be
non-clickable.
- Click Save and the HTML bookmarks file is created in the directory
that you specified.
Once you have created your HTML genealogy bookmarks / favorites file you can
upload it to the Web or attach it to an email to share with your friends. Anyone
with Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator can also import the links from the
HTML file into their own bookmarks. As an added bonus, the file you just created
also doubles as a backup to your favorites / bookmarks collection.
Share your favorite genealogy links today!
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