Saving a Single Web Page for Later Viewing

There are times when you'll want to save only a single Web page, not a whole site, for offline viewing. Say you want to just reference a page, defer the reading of a page, save a page that shows proof of an online purchase, or you want to print it later when you're offline. Here's how:

1.	In IE, choose File, Save As.
2.	In the Save as type section of the dialog box, choose Web page, complete.
3.	Then choose the folder, name the file and click Save.

What happens now depends on your page. The Web page itself (the HTML file) will be stored in the folder you specified. If there are images, scripts, and other supporting files on the page, IE will create a folder just under the target folder and put those items in it. Then IE modifies the HTML code in the HTML page to point to that subfolder instead of across the Web. This lets you open the Web page without being online, and it should still look correct.

It's important to understand that by default, the HTML file and its subfolder are linked and act as a single entity. Moving one or the other will move of them. This is to prevent the entity from becoming nonfunctional if you move them around separately.

If you have Microsoft Office installed, you'll have three options for altering this linkage behavior.

1.	Open a Windows Explorer window and choose Tools, Folder Options.
2.	Click the View tab.
3.	Scroll down to Managing pairs of Web pages and folders. Double click it if it's not showing three options below. The options are Show and manage the pair as a single file (default setting) Show both parts and manage them independently Show both parts but manage them as a single file

NOTE

If you try to change the name of either the HTML page or the underlying subfolder containing the associated files, you'll be warned that this will break the page.