Print screen Worksheet



ScreenCapture Worksheet

using PrtScr Key, Snippet Tool, Office 2010 ScreenShots

Windows Print Screen

The Windows Print Screen key can be a powerful tool if you know how to use it. The key may appear differently depending on the manufacturer of the Windows keyboard. Usually located at the upper right hand corner of your keyboard next to the Scroll Lock and Pause/Break keys. Often abbreviated PrtScr, the Print Screen key is a useful key supported on most PCs.

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The only function of the Print Screen (Prt Scr) key is to take a snapshot or picture of your computer screen and copy it to the clipboard. The clipboard is a temporary memory storage area, where data (text, graphics, sound, video) is stored temporarily before being copied/pasted to another location.

In older operating systems (MS-DOS), pressing the Print Screen key causes the computer to send whatever images and text are currently on the display screen to the printer. Some graphics programs and Windows, use the Print Screen key to obtain Screen Captures.

|Using your keyboard or mouse; |[pic] |

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|First select or highlight the data (text, image) to be copied | |

|CTRL+C or Edit/Copy; places the selected/highlighted data to be placed in the clipboard | |

|CTRL+V or Edit/ Paste; inserts the selected/highlighted data in the clipboard into the area where | |

|your flashing cursor[pic]is positioned or the area you have selected | |

|CTRL+X or Edit/Cut; removes the selected/highlighted copy and places it on the clipboard | |

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Windows Alt +Prt Scr

Now, for those who have read this far, here is another neat little feature of the Windows Print Screen Key.

Alt + Print Screen - Holding down the ALT key while pressing the Print Screen key

will take a screenshot of the currently selected window, not the entire screen like the normal screenshot function. This allows you to target that specific window that you have open and nothing else on the screen.

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Practice Tasks:

In the following task, you will open the Windows calculator and capture it on the Windows desktop.

|Click on the ( start menu at the bottom of the Windows screen |[pic] |

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|Slide the mouse to the ( All Programs menu, select the Accessories folder, select Calculator program. | |

|Click to start the Calculator program | |

|[pic] |3. The Windows calculator will appear somewhere on the Windows desktop. Press the Print Screen key |

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| |Pressing the print screen key takes a snapshot of the Windows desktop at the moment and places the |

| |picture in the Windows clipboard. |

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| |Users often think that nothing has happened at this stage |

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|4. Next start a Windows application (MS Paint, WordPad, MS Word) to paste a copy of the snapshot| |

|into that application. Slide the mouse to the All Programs menu, Accessories, WordPad. Click| |

|the WordPad program. If necessary, click the Maximize button to make the WordPad application | |

|as large as the entire Windows screen. | |

|[pic] |Click on the Edit menu, then the Paste command. (You could also use the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+V.) This will |

| |paste the snapshot of the entire window into WordPad. |

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| |6. You have now created a WordPad document and pasted a snapshot of the entire Windows screen into it. |

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| |Unfortunately the picture is too wide to fit into a normal printed page. To see this click on the Print Preview |

| |button at the top of the WordPad application. |

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| |7. The next step is to resize your picture so that it will fit onto a printed |

| |page. If necessary scroll to the start of your picture. Click to select the |

| |picture. Notice the small black squares at the corners of the document. These |

| |are the sizing handles of the picture. Click on the top left corner sizing |

| |handle, hold down the left mouse key and move towards the middle of the picture,|

| |then release. This resizes the picture by making it smaller. You may have to |

| |do this several times to shrink it enough to fit on a printed page. |

8. Check your document by again clicking on the print preview button. You should always check before printing.

Snippet Tool

The Microsoft Snipping Tool (located in the Accessories folder) is a little application that allows you to carry out a simple task: take screenshots of your screen. It is similar to the Prt Scr in your keyboard and that it will take a screenshot of your screen and take it to the clipboard. There is something better than that. When you activate the Snipping Tool, you can select a part of your screen with your mouse and it will be captured. That capture can either go to the clipboard or to a file. You can even select what type of file you want it to be saved to. I have to get screenshots of applications all the time, and pasting a screen capture into a graphics editor and then cropping it, all it takes me about a minute. I can do the same work in less than 2 seconds. Microsoft Snipping Tools is a free application that comes with Windows Vista and Windows 7. If you don't have Windows Vista, you can get it if you have XP. See website to download;

You can use Snipping Tool to capture a screen shot, or snip, of any object on your screen, and then annotate, save, or share the image. Simply use a mouse or tablet pen to capture any of the following types of snips:

• Free-form Snip. Draw an irregular line, such as a circle or a triangle, around an object.

• Rectangular Snip. Draw a precise line by dragging the cursor around an object to form a rectangle.

• Window Snip. Select a window, such as a browser window or dialog box, that you want to capture.

• Full-screen Snip. Capture the entire screen when you select this type of snip.

After you capture a snip, it's automatically copied to the mark-up window, where you can annotate, save, or share the snip.

[pic]Snipping Tool

When Snipping Tool is open, a white overlay appears on your screen until you capture a snip. To turn off the overlay, open Snipping Tool, and then click Options. In the Snipping Tool Options dialog box, clear the Show screen overlay when Snipping Tool is active check box, and then click OK.

To capture a snip:

1. Open Snipping Tool by clicking the Start button [pic], click All Programs, click Accessories, click Snipping Tool OR Click on the Start Menu and start typing "snipping" into the search box, Snipping Tool should show up in the Programs list above the search box, and you can click on it to start it

2. Click the arrow next to the New button, select a snip type from the menu (Windows Snip), and then use your mouse to capture a snip

3. The Snipping Tool window will appear on your screen. You may move it to an edge of the screen so it is not in your way, but it will also disappear when you start dragging a selection area

4. The Snipping Tool assumes you want to create a new clipping as soon as you open it. Your screen will dim, and you can click and drag your cursor to select an area to copy. As you drag, the selected area will be darker, and surrounded by a red border if you've never changed the Snipping Tool options

5. When you release the mouse button, the captured area will open in the Snipping Tool window. If you're not happy with the selection and need to try again, click the "New" button

6. When you are happy with your clipping, press the second button to save the screen shot as an image file. See the tips below for file format suggestions.

Some helpful websites:



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Office 2010 Screenshots

How To Take Screenshots from Microsoft Office 2010 Word, Excel, PowerPoint inbuilt Tool

Microsoft Office 2010 has been released and you can download and try the Professional Plus trial version. Office 2010 is having lot many new features including inbuilt “Screenshots” feature thru which you can take screenshot of any window on your computer and attach that into the document without installing any other software. You can also save that screenshot on your local machine for future usage.

Screenshot Tool is an easy to use option on Microsoft Office 2010 to take screenshots and here is the step by step guide on how to use that feature.

Screenshot Taken from Screenshot Tool on Office 2010 Word

We are taking Microsoft Office Word 2010 in this example:

1. Open a document or blank document on Microsoft Office Word 2010

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2. Go to ‘Insert’ tab and click on ‘Screenshot’ option available besides the Chart option (10’th position from left on menu bar)

3. It will show you the active windows on your computer. If you want to take a full snap of those active windows, then select the windows from the list

4. To take a screenshot of selective area only, Click on ‘Screen Clipping’ option at the bottom

5. Recent window on your computer will become active (faded window) and you can select the area to take screenshot

6. Screenshot will be copied to your Microsoft Office Word document

7. You can change the format and design of that screenshot image from the ‘Format’ Picture Tool on Menu bar

8. Save the screenshot on your local computer by right click on image ===> select ‘Save as Picture’ from menu

You can use Screenshot feature on other applications like PowerPoint and Excel in Office 2010.

You Try IT..

Throughout this class you will be asked to submit ScreenShots/Screen Captures/PrintScreens with various assignments. Practice using PrintScreen, the SnippIt Tool or the the Office 2010 ScreenShots to capture a screen and PASTE that screen into MS Word or MS Paint, or WordPad.

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