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campbell
I need to cut and paste part of the screen for teaching handouts
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Pressing PrintScreen will capture the entire screen to the Clipboard, whence
it can be pasted into a document. Alt+PrintScreen captures the active window
(a dialog, for example). These are crude tools. If you want to have finer
control, get a dedicated screen capture program such as SnagIt from
TechSmith (www.techsmith.com), which allows you to capture specific menus
(including scrolling ones) and other elements, apply edge effects, and save
in a wide variety of graphics formats. If you settle for PrintScreen, your
best bet is to paste your screen shot into a graphics app (even MS Paint)
and crop the picture, save, then insert into Word. While you can crop the
graphic in Word, you don't actually reduce its size that way because the
cropped portion aren't removed, just hidden (and you may find that they'll
print anyway on some printers).
it can be pasted into a document. Alt+PrintScreen captures the active window
(a dialog, for example). These are crude tools. If you want to have finer
control, get a dedicated screen capture program such as SnagIt from
TechSmith (www.techsmith.com), which allows you to capture specific menus
(including scrolling ones) and other elements, apply edge effects, and save
in a wide variety of graphics formats. If you settle for PrintScreen, your
best bet is to paste your screen shot into a graphics app (even MS Paint)
and crop the picture, save, then insert into Word. While you can crop the
graphic in Word, you don't actually reduce its size that way because the
cropped portion aren't removed, just hidden (and you may find that they'll
print anyway on some printers).
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Bob Buckland ?:-\)
Hi Campbell,
To add to Suzanne's reply there are several free/donationware
apps available for doing partial or 'focus area' screen captures
that while not as full featured as the Techsmith products may
be adequate for your use. One of the more popular ones is
http://www.irfanview.com
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I need to cut and paste part of the screen for teaching handouts >>
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I hope this helps you,
Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
Office 2003 explained
http://microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.asp
To add to Suzanne's reply there are several free/donationware
apps available for doing partial or 'focus area' screen captures
that while not as full featured as the Techsmith products may
be adequate for your use. One of the more popular ones is
http://www.irfanview.com
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I need to cut and paste part of the screen for teaching handouts >>
--
I hope this helps you,
Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
Office 2003 explained
http://microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.asp
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Elsie
I create a lot of teaching handouts too...I do it just as Suzanne and Bob
have described - but I use Photoshop to save each image for the Web in order
to reduce their size and I save them as .jpg. If you have access to
Photoshop, File | New; Edit | Paste; Image | Crop; and File | Save for the
Web are the commands that I use, then I import the .jpg into the word file.
Makes the whole file much smaller in size.
have described - but I use Photoshop to save each image for the Web in order
to reduce their size and I save them as .jpg. If you have access to
Photoshop, File | New; Edit | Paste; Image | Crop; and File | Save for the
Web are the commands that I use, then I import the .jpg into the word file.
Makes the whole file much smaller in size.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
GIFs are really more suitable for screen shots, though.