For IE8, I used to be able to pull down the Page options and it would say Edit with Word. But now it says Edit with Notepad. I can’t find where to change it back.
And for Firefox 3.5 I have no idea how to do this.
I’m on XP Home latest update
Thanks for any help
In Firefox you are looking for View -> Page Source. It will come up for editing by default in notepad. I am not sure why you’d want to use Word for editing HTML, the most powerful HTML editor in existence is Notepad 
I’m looking at IE6 right now so. . .
In Internet Explorer, go to Tools, Internet Options and then to the Programs tab. You should be able to select the default editor from there.
I’m not anti-Word, but editing a web page in Word is a horrible, terrible, rotten, no-good idea.
It’s the easiest thing. If you are afraid of it, you should try it. I use it all the time to take a web page, remove the dross, and send the article and pictures in email to my children.
I think you have to register programs with the operating system before they even appears as an option. I think if you right click on a .htm file you can select programs to edit that way.
Are you talking about converting a web page page into a Word document? That may also be what the OP meant, but I don’t think it is what most of us understand by “editing a web page” (which is something that you could do in Word, but really, really shouldn’t).
But anyway, I do not see why you should want to convert it in order to email it. Why not just send the link? (And what is this dross of which you speak?)
That is, Word has two ways of viewing html, either as code, or as the finished web image. You want to use the finished image, and you can deal with it directly and never bother with HTML.
Yeah, right. You want to email everything on the page every time? I’m glad I’m not on your email list. Usually I want to send a single article with picture from a news page, recipe page, etc. Dross is whatever I don’t want to send, which is most of it.
njtt said nothing about emailing the page itself, only the link to the page. Sending all the crap most websites have is extremely problematic, yes, but a link is nothing more than a simple string of characters that the recipient can use to open the page in their own web browser.
Still not what I want to send. Give it up. Some people do the easy thing and send links and some people like to edit.
Since the OP asked how to get Word going we should try to help if we know how and refrain if we don’t.
I don’t know about Firefox with Word, and I’d like to hear that part answered.
I suspect there is no facility to do this easily in Firefox because it never occurred to to Firefox’s designers that anyone would want to do such a thing.
I think it is still not clear whether the OP was talking about editing HTML in Word, or what the first supraliminal seems to be talking about, i.e. converting a web page to a Word document that looks like (all or part of) the page. I could suggest ways to do the first but I really don’t think I should, because Word is a very bad tool for editing HTML (not only clumsy, but will produce badly written HTML). I do not know how to do the second, but I have no interest in doing it, I cannot imagine a good reason to do it, and I doubt whether any easy way of doing it has been provided.
This Firefox extension will let you do it with Firefox 3.0 and earlier. I’m sure it’ll get updated for 3.5 soon enough.
But like everyone else, I can’t imagine why you’d WANT to edit HTML in Word. Ugh.
Don’t try to be clever. Well, “ugh” is hardly clever, but you know what I mean. I DO NOT want to edit HTML. DO NOT. NO. I want Word to work as it did before something happened. It’s a drag and drop Visual editor NOT HTML. You view the page at all times exactly as it appears online. You never see a line of HTML, never type < and >. Never fuss with nerdy indents like it was 1980 all over again. That is so pointless. Go back to Notepad? Might as well go back to IBM PC’s original Edit.
Moderator: Please lock this thread so it goes away. I’ll try again at a more helpful help site. Thanks.
Granted.