Printout Options

Before printing a web page, you made want to add some special text to the Header and/or Footer to help you organize your print out.

For Internet Expolorer do this:

1. Choose menu File > Page Setup…
2. For the Header and/or Footer, enter the code shown in the table below

For Mozilla Firefox do this:

1. Choose menu File > Page Setup...
2. Choose the Margins & Header/Footer tab
3. Use the Headers & Footers pull down menus
4. Click the OK button

Print Background

You can print the background colors and images of a web page.

For Internet Explorer do this:

1. Choose menu Tools > Internet Options…
2. Choose the Advanced tab
3. Scroll down and under Printing, turn on "Print background colors and images"
4. Click the OK button

For Mozilla Firefox do this:

1. Choose menu File > Page Setup...
2. Click to turn on "Print Background (colors and images)"
3. Click the OK button

Date web page last modified

To see when a web page was last modified, in the URL type…

    javascript:alert(document.lastmodified);

…and press Enter. (The semi-colon at the end is important!)

Export from I.E. to Microsoft Excel

1. Navigate to the page that you want to export
2. Right-click, and choose Export to Microsoft Excel
3. Click OK when you get an error message
4. Choose Data > Import External Data > Edit Query...
5. If asked if it is OK to display nonsecure items, click Yes (repeat as necessary)
6. Login to this new browser session
7. Navigate to the page that you want to export
8. Click the yellow box with the black arrow for the data that you want to export
9. Click the Import button
10. Your data will be imported

Home Page in Registry

Your I.E. Home Page is stored in the Registry at: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page