Make a Webpage For Your Favorites

...using MS Word

When you want your students to visit a certain webpage how do you get them there? Would you like to have a webpage of links for your students that you can edit any time you like? Read on...

Quick summary of the steps: Make a Word file with hyperlinks and save the file as a .htm file on the I drive. Then open it when in Internet Explorer. Add the webpage you made to your Favorites. Now you have a "local" webpage at school that you can edit any time you want. Your students will be able to open webpages by going to Favorites and opening your file. See detailed directions below if you need them.

Step-by-step directions:
  1. Open a new MS Word document where you will make a numbered list of your favorite webpages.

  2. Then open a webpage that you want to include in your list and click your mouse on the web address. It will be highlighted a dark blue after you click on it. Then, right-click your mouse and click on "Copy" as you see in the image below:

  3. Return to you Word document and click on the "Numbering" button on the bar at the top of the screen to make a numbered list so that students will easily be able to find the webpage link you want them to click on.

  4. Place your cursor where you want your webpage address, right-click, and then click on "Paste."

  5. Press "Enter" and the web address will become a hyperlink. The next number will appear. You may continue to copy/paste web addresses. When you are finished and don't have any more web addresses to add, press backspace and the number will go away.

  6. Save your file on the I drive as a webpage with .htm as the extension. It is essential that you save your file on the I drive so that you can access this file on a computer/laptop anywhere on your campus.

  7. Now you are ready to open your saved .htm file in a web browser such as Internet Explorer. You want to open the file on each laptop/computer your students will use. They can open it from the I drive under your guidance. They will only have to do this one time because they will add it to "Favorites" in Internet Explorer and simply click on the Favorite the next time you want them to use this webpage. Open Internet Explorer and click on "File" then "Open" and then "Browse."

  8. After you click on "Browse" you will see a screen where you can look for your file. You will go to the I drive and look in the directory where you saved your file.

    Click on your filename and then click on "Open."

  9. You will see the filename in the "Open" box. Then click "OK."

  10. Now you will see your webpage in Internet Explorer. It is a "local" webpage that is not really on the Internet though it appears to be. It is only on your server at school. When students click on the links on your page, the websites will open in the browser.

  11. Be sure to add the webpage as a "Favorite" so that any time your students use these computers or laptops they will be able to open your webpage in a web browser. Click on "Favorites" on the top tool bar and then "Add to Favorites."

    To return to your webpage at any time, students will click on "Favorites" when they are in a web browser and then the name of your webpage.

  12. To add more links to your webpage, open your .htm file in MS Word. Make sure that you set the file type to "all files" so that you can see your file. If you don't, you will only see the .doc files. Your webpage is not a .doc file. It has a .htm extension.

    Add your additions to the file and resave the file. Then, when students open the page again from "Favorites" your new links will be visible. If you want to add links to your file at home, save the .htm file on a floppy disk or a pen drive. You can carry the file back and forth from home and school. Save the changed file when you get back in school.

  13. You now have a file that you can edit in a heartbeat! ...and your students can open any link that you put on the page for them.

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