# Is there a way to print my favorites/bookmarks? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 31, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-print-my-favorites-bookmarks/424799 "2007-10-31T23:17:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-print-my-favorites-bookmarks/424799/1 "2007-10-31T23:17:22Z")
The dingos et my first thread with the same name. Is there a way I can print my list of bookmarks/favorite sites from Explorer where I’ll have both the site name and URL? Thanks- J ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-print-my-favorites-bookmarks/424799/2 "2007-11-01T00:56:47Z")
File - Import and Export - Export Favorites If you use the default bookmarks.htm file, it’ll give you an actual HTML file (which you can then open up in a browser) but you’ll just see the site name as a link - the URL isn’t shown. If you save as bookmarks.txt instead, when you double-click the file to open it you’ll see the raw html which shows you the URLs and the text. Kinda messy, I know… This is IE6 by the way. Maybe it’s different in IE7 - perhaps it exports more pretty-like. ---
**Author:** ![onedayfishsale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onedayfishsale/32/4398_2.png) [@onedayfishsale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/onedayfishsale)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-print-my-favorites-bookmarks/424799/3 "2007-11-01T01:09:55Z")
Here’s a method for doing this in IE 5: [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237954](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237954) No idea if this works in more recent versions. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-print-my-favorites-bookmarks/424799/4 "2007-11-01T04:39:21Z")
Outta curiosity, why do you want to print your list of favorites? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-print-my-favorites-bookmarks/424799/5 "2007-11-01T05:10:45Z")
If you’re command-line comfy, click Start \> Run and type **cmd** then press ENTER It should open to your user folder, something like C:\Documents and Settings\Sampiro Type **dir Favorites /s /b \> fav.txt** You should now have a text file in that folder with the entire contents of your Favorites folder listed. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-print-my-favorites-bookmarks/424799/6 "2007-11-01T11:58:47Z")
Only problem with the \>dir method is the OP wants the favorite name AND the url it points to. **One Day Fish Sale** ’s method works in IE 6 & 7 as well. But, the printed output does NOT include the url. it’s just a pretty folder listing. Do the export from IE then use a word processor & find/replace to strip out the crap would be the best bet for a non-technical person. A developer could whip up an XSLT to do the conversion, but that’s probably a bit outside the OPs world. ---
**Author:** ![Toast\_Museum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@Toast\_Museum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toast_Museum)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-print-my-favorites-bookmarks/424799/7 "2007-11-01T23:39:35Z")
It’s been a while, so I forget the details, but if you Zip the directory with WinZip, then you can save it and print it in different formats using that program’s control panel. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-print-my-favorites-bookmarks/424799/8 "2007-11-01T23:58:32Z")
[QUOTE=LSLGuy] Only problem with the \>dir method is the OP wants the favorite name AND the url it points to. [/QUOTE] [Emily Litella] Never mind. [/Emily Litella] ---
**Author:** ![Bakkup\_Jenna\_Rater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Bakkup\_Jenna\_Rater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakkup_Jenna_Rater)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-print-my-favorites-bookmarks/424799/9 "2007-11-02T00:04:41Z")
I use Winzip, not to print, but just to make a reasonable size backup file, which I stash on my Yahoo on-line Briefcase. If you try to backup all those hundreds of files any other way it takes hours.