Generally I find that anything worth printing is worth saving to a file - and if you organize things first you don't kill a lot of trees printing stuff you don't recognize later.

If you highlight, copy, and then paste into your word processor, you can edit, add to, delete, etc as needed - and you can add your own notes/notations before you print.

If you just copy and paste, some websites - the 'cat included - give you kind of a mess of tables and links and such. In Word, and I would suppose in most word processors, you can choose Edit - Paste Special - and "unformatted text" to get rid of most of the "junk." When you do that though, you lose links and graphics. You can right click on a link in most browsers and "copy shortcut," and then paste into your document, and most "graphics" can be right-clicked and "save picture" if you want them. Save them separately and/or paste into the document immediately. For a very few websites, a straight paste and editing out the "junk" is easier, but for most sites "Paste Special - unformatted" and adding back the graphics and links is a lot quicker.

I've had a hard time training "HER" to always click the address bar at the top, and paste it into the document - so you can go back later to see if anything new wants to be saved. If you print directly from the web page, with default setup in most browsers, you should get the URL printed in the header or footer. If you don't, you should look at the page/print setup, usually in File - Page Setup, and add the little &u to the header or footer to do it. (In IE, Help - Index Tab - page setup will get you the "codes" for info to print. Other browsers should be similar.)

If you use the "Print Selection" option you can, as noted, only print one continuous selection at a time, so if you want "disconnected pieces" you have to either print each of them separately - or "compose" in your word/text processor.

You can save entire web pages, but they make a mess on your machine since most pages have a file and a folder with all the "includes" that have to be kept together. The links often break if you're not careful, but the saved "pages" can be viewed offline using your browser. I rarely save whole pages to Hard Drive, but occasionally "archive" a few on ZIP disks so they don't clutter up the machine. Many "whole pages" use very long filenames that can't be saved without change to data CDs. You need to open the page in your browser, use "Save As" to change the name to a short "CD-legal" one before you burn the CD using the renamed "copy," since the "page" won't work if the burner program changes the file name.

John