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Using the "Print Screen" key
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| You've seen it...you've glanced at it...you've even stared
and glared at it. You've pressed it...you've poked at it...you might
have even prodded it with a stick! But nothing happened! I'm talking, of
course, about that "Print Screen" button on your key board.
Like me, you may have pressed it time and again and stared at your
printer, waiting for a picture. But alas, nothing ever comes out. |
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To understand the "Print Screen"
key, it helps to understand what a computer considers "print".
While we usually think of a printer, a computer thinks, "Location,
location, location!" And one such location is your computer's
clipboard. |
| Since the image is printed to your clipboard, it is then
available to most image editing programs, such as Photo Editor (in the
Microsoft Office suites) or other types of image/publishing programs.
You simply paste the saved image into the program (you may need to paste
from a menu selection). You can even paste directly into some word
processing programs such as Word. The picture at the right is a copy of
my desktop, with several windows open. |
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You may not want all the windows to be
captured. To select just one window, click on the window you want so the
title bar is hi-lighted (a selected window is also called an
"active" window) and then press the combination "Alt +
Print Screen". Only the selected window will be copied to your
clipboard, ready for pasting into a program. Notice how only the Excel
spreadsheet from my desktop is copied. This was from the same desktop
screen shot, I just chose one window. |
| That's all there is to it!
That's how many of the screen shots in software manuals and online
tutorials are made. So press that key and have some fun! Steve |
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