[joerow]

How do I email a web page using either Outlook or Hotmail so that it arrives still looking the way it should and with all the links etc still working?

[karbo]

Copy the web page address and paste it in your email message where you want it. That's all there is to it.

[joerow]

Thanks very much for your speedy reply, but it was not the link to the web page that I want to send but the actual page itself. I want the recipient of the email to see the web page when they open the email with all its links intact rather than have them click on a link. I have tried using Outlok 2007 and the option to send the page by email but it is very unreliable and inspite of several attempts each time only part of the page is sent.

[Paquadez]

Originally Posted by joerow

Thanks very much for your speedy reply, but it was not the link to the web page that I want to send but the actual page itself. I want the recipient of the email to see the web page when they open the email with all its links intact rather than have them click on a link. I have tried using Outlok 2007 and the option to send the page by email but it is very unreliable and inspite of several attempts each time only part of the page is sent.

1. Press Ctrl Key: and then PrtScrn Key (Top: right of "F" Keys;

2. Press Ctrl Key and "C" (Copy):

3. Open Word or better, Wordpad:

4. Hit Ctrl Key and then "V".

You have now captured the "Screenshot" of the web page and pasted it via Clipboard into your document.

It will be necessary to capture the web page in probably three captures, as Print Screen command will only capture the part of the pane that is visible when you execute the command.

I do warn you this operation is very memory hungry!

Your document will be many megabytes of data as it is all complex graphics and not a compressing protocol such as JPEG.

You can convert the image however using any programme such as Irfanview (Free download) or Paint Pro or indeed, any graphical image processing package.

Final comment: the links would be visible but not active as hyperlinks require HTML/XTML to operate.

HotSpots (Graphical images on a webpage which act as Hyperlinks), do contain HTML commands.

Which is how and why they work.

[karbo]

If you click on "File" at the top of your web browser, you'll see an option to send the page by email. Unfortunately, web pages are too complex for email support. The details won't be the same and things will be missing.

[Paquadez]

You lose the formatting: and much of the graphics.

Most of the core data is still there and the hyperlinks will work since the page carries the core HTML/XTML code.

Try it: send a page of TSG to yourself!

[VistaRookie]

If you used Outlook Express or Windows Mail (and probably Windows
Live Mail), it is relatively easy. File->Send->Page by email. However,
the problem is because you use MS Outlook. MS Outlook is a business
oriented program and that is probably why only half the page arrives.
MS Outlook 2007 is supposed to be worse than previous versions.

So, an alternate way of doing it would be to save it as an .MHT file.
File->Save As...->Web Archive, single file .MHT. Once saved to your
hard drive, zip it and send it as an attachment. The recipient will have
to open it in Internet Explorer and links and graphics should be there.

[karbo]

It seems to work with Outlook Express but with my Yahoo Mail, it didn't. So, it will have to be from Outlook to Outlook, no webmail.

[Paquadez]

Interestingly as one might imagine, I tested this before my previous post, using this TSG page as my target.

Using OE6.

The formatting scrambles.

Mainly since most mail clients don't handle complex tables.

[Paquadez]

Another way would be to go to the dropdown "View".

Select "Source".

Select "Save As". and use a filename of your choice sich as "TSGPage.txt"

Save.

Double click on the file in Windows Explorer and change the extension to "HTML".

Click once to save the change.

Send this .html file by email as an attachment.

When your recipient receives instruct him/her to double click on the attachment header in the email pane.

It should then open in their browser as was.

[VistaRookie]

Using TSG, this page/thread for testing purposes.

Yes, I can see where clicking File->Send page by email doesn't
all come through. I believe it is due to Cascading Style Sheets.
Because it used to work great, like 5 yrs ago - and perhaps will
on some other websites.

However, creating the .MHT file/zipping it and emailing as an
attachment works as it is supposed to. I sent a copy to my
Yahoo! website account and then downloaded the zip file.
When open, everything was as it should be. I also sent a copy
to come through my Windows Mail client and again, all is in
place, posts, ads, graphics, links, etc;

[karbo]

Why zip it? It's not a big file.

[VistaRookie]

Originally Posted by karbo

Why zip it? It's not a big file.

Send one unzipped to your Yahoo! acc't and see if it arrives.
It never used to. Zipped will arrive.

[karbo]

It does arrive but it's full of errors. Will it change anything to zip it? The file was about 400 Kb.

[VistaRookie]

Originally Posted by karbo

It does arrive but it's full of errors. Will it change anything to zip it? The file was about 400 Kb.

All I can do is repeat the results of my test, zipped.
It was a perfect copy of this page when sent and
a perfect copy when I unzipped it.