Starting with Yahoo! Toolbar 6.2 for Internet Explorer, you can share the highlighted information with friends through email and Yahoo! Messenger.
Yahoo! Messenger
To share something interesting in a web page via Yahoo! Messenger, do the following:
- Visit an interesting web site.
- Use your mouse to select the text on the web site that you want to share.
- Move your mouse pointer over the Yahoo! Smart Tools icon that appears near the selected text.
- Select "by IM" from the "Share This" menu.
- Yahoo! Messenger then prompts you for the person you want to send this information to and opens a IM window with the web page title, URL, and selected text already entered.
Email
To share something interesting in a web page via email, do the following:
- Visit an interesting web site.
- Use your mouse to select the text on the web site that you want to share.
- Move your mouse pointer over the Yahoo! Smart Tools icon that appears near the selected text.
- Select "by Email" from the "Share This" menu.
- An email compose window opens in your default email application with the web page title, URL, and selected text already entered.