From the course: Help Yourself: Tech Tips Weekly

Saving a web page address

From the course: Help Yourself: Tech Tips Weekly

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Saving a web page address

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- [Instructor] You probably know how to save webpage bookmarks and how they work to help you quickly revisit a favorite website. But what if you want to reference a website or a specific webpage in a document? Or maybe you want to save a link to the site on the desktop, where it's easier to revisit it later by double clicking? Both questions have the same answer. In this Word document, I want to reference the page on the left. It doesn't need to be a Word document, either. It could be an email message, a worksheet, or any content where you can paste text. So this screen is rather small. I'm going to arrange the windows so that both are side by side. The process works best when you can see both of the windows. In the browser, you drag the website URL, the full address, using this icon on the far left of the address bar. That's the sweet spot. You drag it into the document where you want to paste it. Release the mouse, and there's the link, which may require some formatting, but it's the entire accurate webpage address. No typos or other mistakes you might make if you manually copy. And it's a lot simpler than copy and paste. Another way to use this trick is to save the webpage link as a shortcut on the desktop. Perform the same action. Drag the URL out onto the desktop. For example, you could save a course you're watching on LinkedIn Learning so that you can easily pick up where you left off in the future. And there's the shortcut. Double clicking this icon opens the default web browser to the given page, saving you time. I often keep a host of these shortcuts on my desktop, especially for current links or articles I want to read later, but don't necessarily want to bookmark. Because the icon is a shortcut, you can delete it when you're done. This same trick also works on Macintosh and even Linux systems. Now that you know how it works, put it to good use and save yourself some time.

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