Saving webpages as MS Word files??

[jw]

Is there any way to save webpages as MS Word files?
I only have wordpad, but it dont work on wordpad. I go to a webpage,
select all, click ctrl C. When I go to wordpad I hit ctrl V, but the
page is not there, or just the text and not the pictures.

Using the save page feature in any browser does not always work right.
Not to mention that I end up with two items, the html file and a
folder with the images and stuff. Much of the time these dont play
back right, and they end up going online to complete the page.

If MS Word is not the way to go (I will install it if it will help),
what are the other options to save a page as one file. Possibly as an
image, or ?????

Thanks

 

[SC Tom]

Is there any way to save webpages as MS Word files?
I only have wordpad, but it dont work on wordpad. I go to a webpage,
select all, click ctrl C. When I go to wordpad I hit ctrl V, but the
page is not there, or just the text and not the pictures.

Using the save page feature in any browser does not always work right.
Not to mention that I end up with two items, the html file and a
folder with the images and stuff. Much of the time these dont play
back right, and they end up going online to complete the page.

If MS Word is not the way to go (I will install it if it will help),
what are the other options to save a page as one file. Possibly as an
image, or ?????

Thanks

It can be done in Word. Do a File, Save As, "Web Archive, single file (*.mht)" from the page you want to save. Don't
know exactly what you're trying to do, but you can then open the MHT file in Word and copy portions of it to other
programs (like Notepad), or save pictures, etc.

 

[Nil]

If MS Word is not the way to go (I will install it if it will
help), what are the other options to save a page as one file.
Possibly as an image, or ?????

A word processor isn't really an appropriate tool. Word processing
documents are laid out for printing on specific sized paper, and the
words and images are expected to stay where they're placed. Web pages
are fluid, and the layout flows depending on how the browser windows is
sized, and they have no prescribed dimensions.

I suggest you install a print-to-PDF "virtual printer" such as CutePDF
Writer and "print" your web page to that. I don't think you'll find any
other way to preserve your web page the way you see it.

 

[Tim Meddick]

Easy! - Save the web-page as either HTML or single-file MHT, both can then
be opened from within WinWord.exe then simply choose from the top menu :
"File" > "Save As..."
[ Word Document (*.doc) ]

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Mayayana]

| Though, sadly, many of today's web pages _are_ designed by people who
| think they _are_ supposed to be fixed format, or at the very least
| viewed full-screen at high resolution. (Although I have 1280 x 800, I
| don't run the browser full-screen, and I can't be alone in that.)

No. That's been bugging me lately, too. People
who auto-generate bloated but functional webpages
have recently changed the standard page size from
750+- to 1000+-. I like the browser window at about
800. On the bright side, auto-generated pages nearly
is not as problematic as I would have thought, because
such pages are nearly always composed of redundant
links and ads, with the actual useful page being only
the top menu bar and the center 1/9th where the
alleged "content" resides. In fact, I see very few ads,
but I'm still getting pages designed on the "center 1/9th"
principle!

For me that's all part of a bigger problem, though. I
find I'm just not going online as much as I used to in
general. So many websites have become little more
than auto-generated pages full of ads, internal links,
and "content" lifted from others -- with news articles
designed for Google optimization and further domain-
internal linking.
(Example: "The 20 best museums in XYZ". The article
ends up being 20 pages with 1 glib paragraph, 1 photo,
and several ads on each page, along with numerous links
to other articles on the same website. ...They're using
the old women's magazine trick of every month printing
headlines like, "The 10 things that will drive him wild!".
Inside, the article is just mindless copy saved from
last month's issue .... some sort of nonsense about
how the brain is the main s-e.x org.an.

For the OP: I think I'd be inclined to go with the PDF
option, but you never explained what you need this
functionality for. If taking pictures works for your
purposes you could do that with Ctrl + Prt Scr and
then paste into a graphic editor. But you'd probably
need several pictures for each page, and it's no longer
text-searchable.