How to Manage Favorites and Subscriptions in Internet Explorer

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SUMMARY

This article describes how to add, organize, and subscribe to Favorites in Internet Explorer for Macintosh.


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Adding Favorites

To add a Web page that you are currently viewing to your Favorites folder, use one of the following methods:

To add a Web page that you are not viewing to your Favorites folder, click New Favorites on the Favorites menu. On the Info tab, specify a name, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) address, and any comments, and then click OK.

Organizing Favorites

To organize items in the Favorites folder, click Open Favorites (Organize Favorites in Internet Explorer 4.5) on the Favorites menu. When the Favorites folder is open, you can create new folders by clicking New Folder on the Favorites menu, add dividers between Favorites by clicking New Divider on the Favorites menu, move Favorites by dragging them to a different location in the Favorites folder, and delete Favorites by dragging them to the Trash.

Subscribing to Favorites

To subscribe to Favorites, follow these steps:

  1. On the Favorites menu, click Open Favorites (Organize Favorites in Internet Explorer 4.5).


  2. Double-click to the far left of the Favorite to which you want to subscribe.


  3. On the Subscribe tab, click the Check This Site For Changes check box to select it, and then click OK. A newspaper icon then appears to the far left of the Favorite.


Subscription Options

To change the way Internet Explorer handles subscriptions, click Subscription Options on the Favorites menu to open the Subscription Options dialog box.

The Update tab in the Subscription Options dialog box contains the following options:

Additional Subscription Options in Internet Explorer 4.5

If the Web site is successfully updated, the newspaper icon changes to a gold, 4-point star. If the Web site is not successfully updated, the newspaper icon changes to an exclamation point in a yellow triangle. Subscriptions cannot be updated if Internet Explorer is not running or if you are not connected to the Internet.

You can also use the Notify tab in the Subscriptions Options dialog box to select how Internet Explorer notifies you when a subscription has been updated. To enable a custom notification for a subscription, click the Use a custom notification for this Favorite check box to select it. The following custom notifications are available:

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Keywords          : kbenv msiemac 
Version           : MACINTOSH:3.01a,4.0,4.01,4.5
Platform          : MACINTOSH 
Issue type        : kbhowto 

Last Reviewed: July 25, 1999