how do I use "print screen"

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Anne

How do I "print screen" for i.e., MY COMPUTER INFORMATION - GENERAL", which
details the specifications, system model, BIOS Version, Operating System,
memory (RAM), version, speed, etc.?

Thank you.
 
D

DAVE

Hi Anne,
Display the screen you want to print.
Click the "PrtScn" key of your keyboard.
Open the program where you want to save it.
Rightclick the screen and select PASTE
Rgrds,
 
J

JoAnn Paules [MVP]

This really isn't an Office question but...

Bring up the screen you want to print. If you hit the PrintScrn key, it will
put the entire screen image in your clipboard. Open Word and paste it in. If
you hit Alt + PrintScrn, it will just copy the active window,not the
background stuff.
 
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Herb Tyson [MVP]

To supplement what the others have said... once upon a time, when you
pressed PrintScreen, DOS computers would dutifully send the contents of the
screen to the printer. If the printer wasn't turned on, DOS being DOS, the
computer would lock up until you turned the printer on. Many users didn't
know this, and simply rebooted. Or, if the printer *was* on and graphics
were onscreen, it would then take an hour or two and waste a lot of ink
trying to print the contents of the screen.

At some point, the folks at Microsoft (or perhaps at IBM) got tired of all
of the technical support calls arising from folks accidentally pressing the
PrintScreen key, and changed it. So now, instead of printing the screen, the
key now makes a graphical copy of the screen and places it into the
clipboard. (Making this slightly more useful and selective, if you press
Alt+PrintScreen, then only the current window gets copied to the clipboard.)

In order to actually use this key/feature, you have to paste the copy into a
program that can handle an inserted graphic... such as Word (but not
Notepad) or PhotoEditor, etc. And, then print from there.
 
H

Howard

JoAnn Paules said:
This really isn't an Office question but...

Bring up the screen you want to print. If you hit the PrintScrn key, it will
put the entire screen image in your clipboard. Open Word and paste it in. If
you hit Alt + PrintScrn, it will just copy the active window,not the
background stuff.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Anne said:
How do I "print screen" for i.e., MY COMPUTER INFORMATION - GENERAL",
which
details the specifications, system model, BIOS Version, Operating System,
memory (RAM), version, speed, etc.?

Thank you.
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After reading and reading, and by trial and error, I was able to make my
Print Screen Key work as follow:

First........Find MS Paint as follows:
1-Click Start
2-Click Search
3-On list on left side, click All Files & Folders
4-Type in MS Paint....click search
5-On seach results right click MS Paint.exe...Send to Desktop as
short cut icon
Second....Print Screen as follows:
1-Click Print Screen Tab
2-Open MS Paint Icon on Desk Top
3-Press Ctrl+V keys together and There's our screen shot.

I hope this helps you and lots of others....Howard
 
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