Ask the Web Team
This month we answer questions sent in by readers
 Can
one highlight an area of a web page in Internet Explorer so
as to print only that area and not the whole page?
Using the mouse, hold down the left click button and drag
and select the area of text you want.
On your Internet Explorer browser, go to File, Print and
then you should see the General tab as the default option
in an options dialog box.
Under the Page Range on the left, you should have four options:
All, Selection, Current Page, and Pages. Click on Selection.
Then click Apply and Print (on the bottom right hand corner
of the window).
If I have saved a web page to file, do I have the page
actually on file, or just its address? Do I have to be online
to read the web page at a later date?
If you save to file using Save As, it will save the document
to file on your computer. Sometimes there will be an associated
folder that goes with this file. This folder will hold the
images that are used to make up the web page. You can try
with any web page.
For example using SCI’s homepage, www.soci.org,
go to File, then Save As. Then find a place to store the
files, eg My Desktop, and Save. You will see that wherever
your web page is saved, there will be a folder with the
same name. This contains the images and style formats that
are used to make up the page.
There are several alternatives to this method. From the
File option you can go to File, then Send, and choose Page
by email or Link by email. Another option, though you will
need to be online, is to add it to your Favorites list.
Just click on Favorites in your browser and then click on
Add to Favorites (see SCI Members' News June 2004 issue).
Contact us
Do you have a web-related problem you’d like help with?
If so, please contact us at web@soci.org,
with ‘Ask the Web Team’ in the subject line.
| Webwatch:
CIA factbook |
 If
you are going travelling, following the news, or simply
realising the inadequacies of your atlas or gazetteer,
the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) factbook is
for you.
Located at www.cia.gov/cia/
publications/factbook/index.html the site offers
a thorough and up-to-date fact file on just about
every country in the world, as well as regions such
as Antarctica, which span several national borders.
The information includes data on local geography,
climate and resources, people, including birth, death
and migration rates, health statistics, and facts
on government and judicial systems and the economy.
Transport and communications are also featured.
The gallery of maps, each of a different continent
or region, is also useful, especially as it is offered
in jpg and pdf versions. The type is too small in
most cases to read many of the place names in the
jpgs, but the pdfs can be magnified so all the detail
becomes clear.
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