Check What's New. . .
Communicator allows you to see if any of your bookmarked sites contain new information before you open them. Communicator searches the sites and indicates which, if any, have changed since the last time you visited.

Open your bookmark window. . .

Click . . . .Bookmark Icon on the tool bar.

Select. . .Edit Bookmarks

 

To find out the update story. . .

Click . . . .View on the tool bar.

Select. . .Update Bookmarks, which opens the What's New? box. 

Select. . .All Bookmarks, which will select all the bookmarks to check.

To check out only a few bookmarks see the Selector Tip. . .

Click . . . .View on the tool bar.

Select. . .Update Bookmarks, which opens the What's New? box.

Select. . .Selected Bookmarks,

which will select only the bookmarks that you pre selected.

Click . . . .Start Checking.

Printing Bookmarks. . .
Printing bookmarks in Netscape Communicator has always been difficult, one member of a tech list I belong to sent in this innovative approach.

Open your bookmark window. . .

Click . . . .Bookmark Icon on the tool bar.

Select. . .Edit Bookmarks

Select all the bookmarks in the bookmark window. . .

CTRL + A ---------- Will select all the bookmarks.

CTRL + C ---------- Copies everything highlighted to the clipboard.

Then open a new email message to compose. . .

(CTRL + M is the quickest way), and paste these in an outgoing message addressed to yourself.

NOTE: The resulting incoming message can be printed or otherwise saved. (It will have your bookmarks broken down into named folders but no link names just the url's.)

Saving Bookmarks. . .

Open your bookmark window. . .

Click . . . .Bookmark Icon on the tool bar.

Select. . .Edit Bookmarks

And in the open edit bookmark window. . . Click . . . .File on the tool bar
then Select. . .Save As Save your bookmarks in another place other than your Netscape\User file. You can add a date to the name saved, then it is easier to know how long it's been since you last saved them. If you add bookmarks everyday you should save them at least once a week. Example. . .bookmarks 2-9-01

Keyboard Shortcuts. . .

While in Navigator. . .

CTRL + B ---------- Opens your bookmarks folder for editing.

CTRL + D ---------- Adds an open URL window to your bookmarks.

While in Bookmarks. . .

CTRL + A ---------- Will select all the bookmarks.

CTRL + C ---------- Copies everything highlighted to the clipboard.

Below there are four different ways to pre-select which bookmarks you wish to update.

(1) Select one item in the edit bookmark window. . .

PRESS. . .SHIFT + DOWN ARROW

and as long as you keep clicking the arrow it will keep highlighting bookmarks.

Use the UP ARROW to reverse the last selection.

(2) Select the last item in the edit bookmark window. . .

PRESS. . .HOME Key + SHIFT

and it will select everything above it.

(3) Select the first item in the edit bookmark window. . .

PRESS. . .END Key + SHIFT

and it will select everything below it.

(4) Select one item in the edit bookmark window. . .PRESS. . .CTRL + A

and it will select everything in the window.

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