To get to the "Open Location" box, drag down the FILE menu and click on open location. The "Open Location" box will appear on the screen.

How do I enter the name of the Web site?

In this box, type in the name, or the address, of the web site you want to visit. In almost all cases that name begins with "http://", followed by "www.abc.com". Let's say we wanted to visit the CNN News web site. This is that the address would look like http://www.cnn.com. After you've typed all that, move the mouse pointer to the "OPEN" button in the lower-right corner of the pen location box.

How do I "follow links" on a page?

   When you place the mouse pointer over any link it will turn into a hand       with the index finger extended.

   Text links will always be underlined, but not always blue.

   When you see a graphic that is linked, there may be a colored border, but    it's not a requirement.

   When you click on a link, and you don't get a response immediately, try       waiting a little longer. A lot of people might be trying to get at the same link       that you are.

What is a Tool Bar and what are its various functions?

The Tool Bar is at the top of your screen. Its various functions are as follows:

The Back Button:
This button will take you back to the last web page that you have visited. You can usually go all the way back to the first page that you saw today. The button will turn grey when you cannot go back any further.

The Forward Button:
Press this button to move forward through any of the pages which you have visited today. This button is really only useful when you have already seen the page that you are looking at. Therefore it will be grey, and unusable, through most of the time using Netscape.

The Home Button:
This button will bring you back to your starting page, which, if you haven't changed it, will be the Netscape site.

The Reload Button:
If the web site that you are trying to visit is taking an unusually long time to load (say, a minute or two), and then you can press the reload button to try that web site again. Also, if you are visiting a Web site that changes frequently, such as an online newspaper or a weather map, you can press this button to see the latest version of the web site.

The Images Button:
You will most likely never have to use the images button. However, if you see outlined boxes instead of graphics all over any given web site, then you will need to press this button to see the images.

The Open Button:
Press this button if you would like to visit another web site.

The Print Button:
Press this button to print out a copy of the web page that's on the screen. Remember that this will only allow you to print the page, not the entire web site.

The Find Button:
Press this button to search the current page that you are looking at for a word or phrase. You cannot search other pages on the Internet by pushing this button (an example of a good search utility is Yahoo)

The Stop Button:
If you would like to stop loading a web site, and move on to another one, click on this button. Then click on the open button to type in a new web site.

Is there a quick way to launch Netscape and get to a Web site?

When running Windows 95/98, you can type in a URL directly from the 'run' option on the start menu and it will bring it up with your default browser.

For example, to go directly to the CNN web site:
   Click on the start button.
   Click on run.
   Type in the URL http://www.cnn.com
   Click OK.

How can I see more of my Netscape screen?

Netscape has given the option to give some room by turning off the "Show Directory Buttons" feature. You can also increase the display area by only showing the words of the tool bar rather than the words and the pictures.
   Click on "Options."
   Click on "General Preferences"
   Click on the "Appearance" button.
   Where it says "Show main Toolbar as", click on "Text".
   Click OK.

How do I turn off my "Show Directory Buttons" feature?

The "Show Directory Buttons" feature is a toggle or On/Off feature. To turn it off:
   Click on "Options".
   Click on "Show Directory Buttons" and uncheck it.
   This will hide the directory buttons.

When I click on the down arrow for the Location field, it only shows some of the sites I have been to. Why doesn't it show all of them?

The Location field only contains the ten most recent URL's that have been visited. If you type in an eleventh URL in the Location field then it will be included in the list while the tenth URL in the list will be washed out of the Location field.

I found an image that I like on the web. Is there a way in Netscape that I can save that image?

Select the image by moving the cursor over the image and right click on the image. Click on "Save this image as". Specify the location to which you want to save the file in the directory dialogue box that pops up. For example, you may want to save it in your

C:\DATA directory. Make sure the name of the file (that you are storing the image as) is one that you will recognize.

I tried to print a site in Netscape and it only printed half the page. What is wrong and how can I fix it?

You probably did not wait for the entire document to load. If you wait long enough for the entire document to load you will get it all printed.

I found a good article using Netscape but I only got to print some of the pages. How can I print only pages 5 through 9 using Netscape?

To print a range of pages, simply:
   Click on "File"
   Click on "Print Preview"
   Scroll through the document and determine what pages you want to print       using the "Next" page button and the "Prev" page button.
   Click on the "Print" button.
   In the "Print range" panel click on the "Pages" radio button.
   Type in the page numbers needed to be printed in the "from" and "to" edit       Windows.
   Click "OK".

How do I send a web page through email?

In Communicator, Navigate to the web page you wish to send. Go to File | Send Page (Note: Windows users may also right-click the mouse and select Send Page)

This will launch a message composition window. Enter the email address of the person you want to send the page to. Edit the Subject field if necessary. Click on the 'Send' button.

In Navigator, Navigate to the page you wish to send. Go to File | Send Frame (Note: Windows users may also right-click the mouse to select Send Page)

This will launch a message composition window. Enter the email address of the person you want to send the page to. Edit the Subject field if necessary. Click on the 'Send' button.

How do I save images that are attached to mail and news messages?

Simply bring up the popup menu over the image (on UNIX and Windows, by holding down the right mouse button; on Mac, by holding down the mouse button for about a second) and select "Save This Image As...". This will save the GIF, XBM, or JPEG image, removing any encoding which was done to it in transit (that is, MIME Base64 encoding, or UUencoding.)

How do I view and/or clear the Netscape History File?

Netscape Navigator and Communicator maintain a "history file" to keep track of every web page you've visited recently. This file remembers every URL you've accessed, including every web page you went to, every image on those web pages, and every file you downloaded through Netscape Navigator or Communicator. This is to let the program remember what web links you've already visited so it can make the "visited" links show up in a different color than the "unvisited" links. You can set the number of days that the browser remembers links.

In Netscape Navigator, select "General Preferences" from the Options menu, and click the "Appearance" tab. Then change the "Visited links expire after N days" field to anything you want. You can click on "Expire" now to immediately clear the history.

In Netscape Communicator, select "Preferences" from the "Edit" menu and click on "Navigator" in the list along the left side of the window. Then change the "Visited links expire after N days" field to anything you want. You can click on "Expire now" to immediately clear the history.

If you set "Visited links expire after N days" to '3', then any web pages you visited more than three days ago will be forgotten from the history file.

If you want to see what is listed in the history file, type in this URL in the "Location" field at the top of the browser window: "about: global"

This will show you all of the URL's loaded, including a separate entry for every image. It is not sorted chronologically, and it may be very large and take a few minutes to display completely.

How do I print Bookmarks?

The Bookmarks window does not allow for any type of printing functions, since it was designed for hyper linking. However, there is a workaround. Open the file Bookmarks.htm in your Netscape browser. You can do this by clicking on File | Open File (Open Page in Communicator). Once the page comes up, you can then click on File and Print.

The only down side to this is that you will not be able to print the URL address that is attached to each bookmark. You could also bring it up in the Browser and click on View and View Document Source. Then highlight everything, press Ctrl+C, open Notepad and paste it. This will have all of the URL's and bookmark titles. Again, there is a down side as there will be a lot of HTML code included and you will have to clean it up.