Screen Shots On Your PC

Ask and you shall receive! I know only too well that RELATIONSHIPS ARE EVERYTHING and I'm forever grateful for my relationships. It's through relationships that my gaps get filled and questions answered. 

So one of my primary business relationships gave me the word on taking screen shots on a PC. I was on  the  phone with Toby Taniguchi the VP of Store Operations at KTA Superstores on the Big Island of Hawaii. I should have known that Toby, would have the answer to doing screen shots on a PC. Toby is a PC tech wiz who almost always has the answers for my tech challenged mind. (Being as limited as I am by my passion for the Macintosh computer!)

So here it is:

1. Hold down the SHIFT key and the PRINTSCREEN (PRNSCR) key at the same time.
2. There will not be an indication or sound to let you know that the pic took, but it did. It is stored on your clipboard.
3. Open MS Word or a photo edit program and PASTE it into the document.
4. Crop the image and SAVE to your desktop.
5. Place it into your screen saver file and you're done!!

Well that's it....

Thank You, Toby!!

ALOHA from the beautiful islands of Hawaii, Trinidad

Comments

[Doug]

Screen shots are more robust on a Mac.

Shift+Command+3 takes a shot of your entire display and places the file on your Desktop.

Shift+Command+4 gives you a marquee to drag around whatever you want a screen shot of... when you release your mouse button, the file is placed on your Desktop.

Shift+Command +4 and then release and tap your space bar and you'll take a shot of whatever active window the cursor is hovering over when you click.

As an added bonus, add the Control key into the mix and instead of the image being placed into a PNG file on your Desktop, what you shoot is placed onto the Mac's clipboard to be pasted anywhere you want.

Though the PC doesn't give you any indication that you made the screen shot, the Mac does. It gives you a camera shutter noise, like you were taking a photo with your camera.

But wait! There's more! In Snow Leopard you can customize your key combos for these functions in System Preferences. If you need a key combo in a particular app, but it has already been used by the system, just go in and change it. The world is your oyster, so be happy as a clam!