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  • Sending a Screen Shot from a Mac

    Copy the window or screen contents

    • To capture the entire desktop, press Command-Shift-3. The screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop.
    • To copy the entire desktop, press Command-Control-Shift-3. The screen shot will be placed on your clipboard for you to paste into another program.
    • To capture a portion of the desktop, press Command-Shift-4. A cross-hair cursor will appear and you can click and drag to select the area you wish to capture. When you release the mouse button, the screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop. (The file is saved as PDF in Mac OS 10.3 and earlier.)
    • To capture a specific application window, press Command-Shift-4, then press the Spacebar. The cursor will change to a camera, and you can move it around the screen. As you move the cursor over an application window, the window will be highlighted. The entire window does not need to be visible for you to capture it. When you have the cursor over a window you want to capture, just click the mouse button and the screen shot will be saved as a PNG file on your desktop. (The file is saved as PDF in Mac OS 10.3 and earlier.)
    • Add Control to the two shortcuts above to place the screen shot on the clipboard instead of saving it to the desktop.

     

  • Sending a Screen Shot from a PC

    Copy the window or screen contents

    Pressing PRINT SCREEN captures an image of your entire screen, also known as a “screen shot” or “screen capture”, and copies it to the Clipboard in your computer’s memory.

    You can then paste (CTRL+V) the image into a document, e-mail message, or other file. If you want, you can print the image from the application that you pasted it into.

    1. Click the window that you want to copy.
    2. Press ALT+PRINT SCREEN.
    3. Open up a program such as Word, Paint, an Email program or whichever application you want to insert the image in.
    4. Paste the image using (CTRL+V) or right click and select PASTE

    Of course with everything in Windows there can be a complication. In this case it is related to taking a screen shot of an active drop down menu. To help watch the video below for instructions.

     

    Where is the PRINT SCREEN button?

    The PRINT SCREEN key is usually located in the upper right corner of your keyboard. The key looks similar to the following

    Click Here to Watch a Demo >