Using Yahoo! Bookmarks from the Yahoo! Toolbar
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What Is Yahoo! Bookmarks?
Yahoo! Bookmarks is an online service that lets you save links to your favorite web pages with your Yahoo! account so that you can access them from any computer connected to the Internet anywhere in the world. If you’ve bookmarked pages using your browser’s feature, you can import those links into your Yahoo! Bookmarks, and have all of your favorite pages at your fingertips.
The Yahoo! Toolbar includes a Bookmarks button that lets you save pages to your Bookmarks and, of course, open bookmarked pages. To use the button and work with Yahoo! Bookmarks, you need to sign in to your Yahoo! account.
Note: The newest Yahoo! Toolbar for the Internet Explorer browser
includes the Bookmarks button. You’re using
the latest Toolbar if you see the yellow Web Search button
on your Toolbar (
),
and you should see the Bookmarks button.
If your Yahoo! Toolbar shows a gray Search Web button
(
),
you’re working with an older version of the Toolbar. If you don’t
see the Bookmarks button, you either need
to sign in to see your customized Toolbar or you need to add the
button to the Toolbar. For help signing in, see the Signing In to Yahoo! tutorial. For
help adding buttons to your Toolbar, see Using the Yahoo! Toolbar With Internet Explorer tutorial or
the Using the Yahoo! Toolbar With Mozilla Firefox tutorial.
Here’s How
Follow these sign-in steps if you use the latest Yahoo! Toolbar. If you use an older Toolbar, follow the guidance in the above note.Click the Bookmarks button, then select Sign in to use Bookmarks!.
Tip: You can really select any item from the Bookmarks menu. If you aren’t signed in, you’ll be asked to do so before Yahoo! Bookmarks continues with the requested item.
The Yahoo! sign-in page opens.
Type your Yahoo! ID and password, then click the Sign In button.
The Yahoo! Bookmarks page opens and you’re ready to use the Bookmarks button.
What’s Next
For the purposes of this tutorial, you don’t need to keep the Yahoo! Bookmarks page open; you can do everything from the Bookmarks button, such as adding and viewing pages. If you like, take some time to review the Bookmarks pages and see what this useful product has to offer. When you’re ready to learn all there is to know about Bookmarks, be sure to take a look at the Help Topics referenced below.
Words to Know
- Toolbar: a row of buttons across the top of the browser window that you can click to perform various tasks.
- Yahoo! ID: the name by which a person is known to the Yahoo! network.