I love all of the advice here. I LOVE the idea of opening up each listing in another tab. Who knew you can do that?? I tried it, and it saves so much time. I have been addicted to tabs since I started using Firefox years ago. And now Internet Explorer and other browsers also use tabs. I have been surprised to find out how many people I know don't know how to use tabs in their browser. They are a huge timesaver. Not so much back arrow clicking, makes shopping and surfing so much easier.

ok igloochic and mike_r - I thought this was a SAFE forum - no BUGS or BATS!!!! :) I must admit, I am truly amazed that there is a market for those pendants!! And I am in awe of people that are confident enough of their taste and sense of style that they can get away with actually putting them in their house!!! I have so much to learn here. sigh. I'm just trying to work up the courage to use jodi_in_ca's and berryberry's Fire & Ice for a backsplash.... you know, that little bit of glass tile is just so OUT THERE!! Karla (who rarely leaves her comfort zone - but is lurking here to get ideas and the inspiration to actually "go-for-it"!

As far as I know, there is no way to clip an entire thread. What many of us do, though, is copy the thread and paste it into an MS Word or other document. This used to be the only way to keep a thread "forever" as threads used to drop off the face of the earth when they dropped off the thread hit list. We used to get "Missing File" when we tried to bring up the thread directly using either a bookmark or the URL. As of this year, however, I've noticed that threads no longer disappear when they drop off the hit list. If you've bookmarked them or if you have the URL, you can still bring up the thread. You can even still post to it and anyone else who has the thread bookmarked can see these new posts...but the thread will not be available via a GW search or in any hit list. One thing...some people move or delete pictures fairly quickly after they post them. If you've clipped a post with one of those pictures, you will lose the picture when it's moved/deleted. The same thing happens if you've bookmarked it. In both cases, pictures will only be available to you as long as they aren't moved or deleted from the posters photo account. However, if you copy & paste a thread into an MS Word (or other) document, the image of the picture comes along and you have it as long as you have the document--no matter what the poster does with his/her picture. The picture has effectively been downloaded to your machine. One note...I don't expect this ability to see old threads to stay with us...I suspect there will either be an "expiration" date for old threads or we'll go back to losing them forever once they drop off of page 67 (the end of the thread hit list).....so, enjoy it while you can! [AND, copy anything you really want saved to your computer into an MS Word or other document!] HTH! Here is a link that might be useful: Example of a thread that you can no longer retrieve via searching, but I have it bookmarked!

"yup, tou would think with all of the ad revenue they get --esp. from those annoying drop down ones, that they could get a current message board. if i start a thread or have a particular interest in one that someone else started, i end up saving it to favorites for a bit so i can actually find it again!" You'd think that they could have a quote feature too! ROFL. seriously, this is the worst excuse for a message board I have ever seen. come on GW - its 2007. Not 1991.