Instructions

Save As Text with Web Browser

1

Open the HMTL document or Web page you want to convert to text in your Web browser software.
2

Click the File menu and select "Save As" (or page menu and "Save As" in Internet Explorer).
3

Choose "Text Pages" from the drop-down format menu and choose a destination for the text file.
4

Click "Save," then exit the browser and locate the text file you saved. You can open this in any application that can read a text file such as NotePad in Windows. Some text editors who read the saved HTML file might display it with no carriage returns or line breaks. If that happens, try the next method.

Copy and Paste to Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Macintosh)

1

Open the HMTL document or Web page you want to convert to text in your Web browser software.
2

Click and drag over the text you want to convert or press Ctrl+A (Command+A on Macintosh) to select the entire page.
3

Click the "Edit" menu, then "Copy."
4

Open the Notepad application (Windows) or the TextEdit application (Macintosh) and click "Paste" under the "Edit" menu. You will now have the text contents of the Web page in the text editor window.
5

Click the "File" menu, then "Save As" to save the new document as a text file, and you will have successfully converted the Web page HTML to text.