Home > Blogs > Win Singleton > Win's Marketing Ideas

Mac OS X Tip - Emailing Web Pages

By Win Singleton

Education & Training with Summit Web Design and Long & Foster Realtors

April 07, 2007 11:51 PM

Emailing a web page If you run across a web page you want to share with a friend, don’t send her a link to it — send her the page itself. Just press Command-I and a dialog will appear, asking for the email address of the person you want to send this web page to. Just enter her email address, along with your text message, and click send, and it will send the contents of that page (complete with graphics, formatting, links, etc.) to your friend. She’ll be able to see that page right within her email application.

(Other tips available at http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/)

Comments(16)

Comment

Show All Comments Sort:

Chris Tesch

RE/MAX Bryan-College Station - College Station, TX

College Station, Texas Real Estate

handy application! Thanks for sharing!!!

Apr 08, 2007 01:12 AM

Maureen Maureen

Orangeburg, NY

Win - This is great. I'm always sending people pages or blogs. This will come in really handy. (If I can remember it)

Apr 09, 2007 02:39 PM

Maureen Maureen

Orangeburg, NY

Hey Win - How do you take a picture of what is on your screen on the Mac. On my other computer I hit print page.

Apr 14, 2007 09:57 AM

Win Singleton

Summit Web Design and Long & Foster Realtors - Falls Church, VA

Web Designer & Associate Broker

Hi Maureen,

Straight from Apple's onscreen Help on your Mac -

Shortcuts for taking pictures of the screen

You can use keyboard shortcuts to take pictures of the screen in Mac OS X.

- To take a picture of the whole screen, press Command-Shift-3.

- To take a picture of part of the screen, press Command-Shift-4, then drag to select the area you want in the picture.

- To take a picture of a window, the menu bar, the Dock, or other area, press Command-Shift-4, then press the Space bar. Move the pointer over the area you want so that it's highlighted, then click. If you decide you want to drag to select the area, press the Space bar again.

- If you press Command-Shift-4 and decide you don't want to take the screen shot, press the Escape key.

- Screen shots are saved as files on the desktop. If you want to put the screen shot in the Clipboard, rather than create a file, hold down the Control key when you press the other keys. You can then paste the picture into a document.

Apr 14, 2007 10:47 PM

Gregory Maley

Sold Buy the Sea Realty & R.E.N.T. - Wilmington, NC

REALTOR, GRI, CBR, SHS, e-PRO, ABR

Well that's just the cat's meow. Thanks for that tip! :-)

May 26, 2007 01:57 PM

Steven Dean

Compass Real Estate | 202.545.6900 - Washington, DC

This has become particularly easy with Leopard. You can easily delete sections of the page before sending too.

Jan 22, 2008 04:18 AM

Michael Shetler

Keller Williams Village Square Realty - Ridgewood, NJ

Bergen's Top Real Estate Agents

The email-a-page function works in Safari but not Firefox. Not too many Safari users these days, but it's easy enough to open just for this purpose.

Feb 11, 2008 11:32 AM

Nogui Aramburo

Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS® - Raleigh, NC

Real Estate Professional in the Raleigh Area

Jellywinkers Batman! Yet another reason to do eflyers! I just tried it- awesome! As long as I've used macs, I've never run across this nifty shortcut. Heck, I learned you can 2 finger scroll across web pages just the other day. Thanks for the tip!

Mar 25, 2008 01:46 AM

Alan May

Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL

Home again, home again...

Well, that beats the carp outta the grabbit tool... thanx!

Oct 01, 2008 07:20 AM

Missy Caulk

Missy Caulk TEAM - Ann Arbor, MI

Savvy Realtor - Ann Arbor Real Estate

Wow thanks for this post, even though it is old it is helpful to use new to the Mac. I send things to my team all the time, this is be sooooooo helpful.

Feb 28, 2009 01:02 AM

Scott Innes

eXp Realty - Wailea, HI

Maui Living Team - eXp Realty

Thanks. Unfortunately it doesn't work if you use Entourage with Mac, which does not support emailing web pages from Safari :-( or from Firefox.

Oct 25, 2009 06:33 PM

Nancy Williams

Coldwell Banker Homestead Group Select Professionals - Harrisburg, PA

Love it. After complying with instructions (for me, it was command/caps lock/i , I heard the reassuring WHOOSH that my email had achieved lift-off, and fractional-seeming seconds later, the gratifying "Ump" from my iphone of a new email just received.

Apr 26, 2010 03:51 PM

Rita Norman

Walnut Creek, CA

Your Agent in Walnut Creek CA

Win: I tried using your email trick. "Command - I" just gives me file info. What am I doing wrong? I tried "Command/cap locks/I" too. I don't get a dialogue page popping up asking me for the email address I want to send the web page to. ~Rita

Jul 26, 2010 05:18 PM

Win Singleton

Summit Web Design and Long & Foster Realtors - Falls Church, VA

Web Designer & Associate Broker

Hi Rita,

This works beautifully in Safari, not Firefox. I just tried it on the web page that gives this trick - http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/emailwebpage.html - and when I did Command - I, it created a new email messsage in Apple's Mail, the application that I use for all of my emails, and pasted the entire page right in.

Try it in Safari and Mail. I think you will really like it.

Win

Jul 27, 2010 12:53 AM

Rita Norman

Walnut Creek, CA

Your Agent in Walnut Creek CA

Hi Win: Thanks for the extra clues. I tried it and it works beautifully. Love it!

Thanks,

~Rita

Jul 27, 2010 06:26 AM

Rita Norman

Walnut Creek, CA

Your Agent in Walnut Creek CA

Win:

Maybe you can help with something else I'm having troubke with. Friends and family want to subscribe to my Blog, so they can read it each time I publish a new one. I can't figure out how they can do that. I've been told they just click on the "Subscribe" button, but they don't see one.

Any Suggestions?

~Rita

Jul 27, 2010 06:28 AM