TechTips for Importing and Exporting Favorites

When you have your Favorites on one computer and need to transfer them to another computer, you can export them and then import them on the second computer. Follow these steps to export your Favorites.

1. From within your Internet Explorer window, click "File" on the top Menu bar.

2. Click "Import and Export."

3. The Import/Export Wizard window opens and you should click "Next."

4. Click to highlight the Export Favorites then click "Next."

5. Click to highlight the Favorites folder on your computer (it should be at the top of the list). Then click "Next."

6. Click in front of "Export to a File or Address" and then click "Browse" and save this file to a place you choose.

7. Leave the file named "Bookmark" and then click "Save."

8. Click "Next."

9. Click "Finish."

10. Click "OK"

11. Now that you have exported your Favorites, you can move the file to the new computer by saving it to a floppy disk, a CD, a jump drive, or emailing the file to yourself. Once you have access to your file named "bookmark.htm" on the new computer you will use the same Import/Export Wizard, but this time you will be Importing your Favorites.

12. Just repeat the directions 1-10 above but now you are Importing your bookmark.htm file instead of exporting.

This page was last updated on Wednesday, December 28, 2005.