# How do you save pages?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-save-pages/28251
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**Created:** [August 5, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-save-pages/28251 "2000-08-05T16:00:31Z")
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-save-pages/28251/1 "2000-08-05T16:00:31Z")
Yeah, when you click on file:save (to save the page you are reading) you get a really weird non-html format. Even the printable version isn’t in HTML. Surely there must be a better way to save than to copy & paste the pages to a word processor?
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### Author:  [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2000, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-save-pages/28251/2 "2000-08-05T16:26:52Z")
It works fine for me when I select **File** - **Save As** in IE5. Does that work for you?
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Jim)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-save-pages/28251/3 "2000-08-06T02:41:01Z")
With Netscape, when you do a “save as” it attemps to create a file with a “.php” extention. If you don’t have that extension mapped to Netscape, it doesn’t know what to do with it. You can changed the extension to “.html” when you save it. And then when you double click it, it’ll open in a Netscape window. However, all the images will show as broken links. The ‘printable version’ has less images so it should show up OK, except for a few images.
With IE5, it saves the whole thing including the images and remaps the links to match, therefore it looks just like the original.
Anyway, it is HTML and it will display just fine in either Netscape or IE with the exception of the images.
Jim
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2000, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-save-pages/28251/4 "2000-08-06T15:41:05Z")
Thanks Jim. I use Netscape & IE, sometimes both at the same time. Which ever works for the web at the time.
Netscape likes to show with the saveas ‘all files’ ick. You can choose to ‘edit page’ if you have composer & then its supposed to capture all images too, then you can save or publish.