BOOKMARK PAGES VIA MICROSOFT WORD:
AN ALTERNATIVE TO USING NETSCAPE'S BOOKMARKS

by Professor Richard Einer Peterson
College of Business Administration
University of Hawaii
November 11, 1997
email: rpeterso@hawaii.edu
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Working with bookmark files in a shared environment using Netcape can become quite a challenge. You must remember to open your own bookmark file at the start of each session and to save the modified file at the end of each session. And every so often, if Netscape crashes, the file will be lost!

An alternative to using Netscape's bookmarking features is to copy and paste relevant materials from Netscape to Microsoft Word -- to a bookmark file in which the necessary HTML tags are already provided . This text file, which I have called bkmrkpag.txt, is available by clicking here

The two basic types of bookmarks in the file mentioned above are documents sites -- which lead you to a particular document or article -- and menu-choice sites -- which connect you to a site which has several clickable items (the menu-choice site could al so be called a table of contents site). To see an example of a bookmark page with an actual document site and menu-choice site, click here

The bookmark file in which the HTML tags are already provided has the following two categories or folders:

The basic idea of the bkmrkpag.txt file is the use of the Data Listing tag <DL> and its two companions -- the Data Term tag <DT> which aligns text at the left margin and the Data Definiton tag <DD> which indents the text. These tagscan be copied to accommodate as many bookmarks as you like. The title of the page and the filename can be easily changed so that you can have bookmark pages devoted to specialized topics or to whatever area you working on at the moment.































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