Sending Web Pages and Links to Other People

Sharing information from Web pages can be very usefulfor example, when you're researching information (such as travel plans) on behalf of a group, or come across an article that you know would be of interest to a co-worker, friend, or family member. To share the information, or to simply keep a copy of it handy in an easily accessible electronic format, you can send a static copy of the page (to someone else or to yourself) embedded in an e-mail message. Alternatively, you can send the page URL in a message, and the recipient can click the URL to link to the "live" Web page.

In this exercise, you will first send a Web page in an e-mail message, and then send a link to a Web page. There are no practice files for this exercise.

1.	Start Internet Explorer to display your default home page.
2.	On the Command bar, click the Page button to display a menu of actions you can perform with the current Web page. [View full size image]
3.	On the Page menu, click Send Page by E-mail. Then in the Internet Explorer Security message box that appears, click Allow. A new e-mail message opens in your default e-mail program. A copy of the currently displayed page is embedded in the message, not as a graphic, but as individual HTML and graphic elements. You can click any text or graphic in the embedded page and work with it as you would work with other e-mail message content. [View full size image]
4.	Change the size of the message window, and notice that (if the Web page is designed to fill a percentage of an Internet browser window rather than to be a fixed size) the content changes to fill the space.
5.	Address the e-mail message to yourself, and then send it. (Or if you prefer, close the message window without sending the message.) You can work with the message you receive as you would with any otheryou can view it, delete it, save it for later reference, or forward it to someone else.
6.	On the Page menu, click Send Link by E-mail. The message created this time contains only the URL of the current Web page. Notice the variation in the message subject between the two methods of sending the Web page information. [View full size image]
7.	Address the e-mail message to yourself, and then send it. (Or if you prefer, close the message window without sending the message.)