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I would like to include a 'screen shot' of a search page in a presentation.

I don't know if I said that right though.

I have a database that I can use to search for things. I would like to show a picture of what it looks like when I go to search for something. Like all the fields I can fill in to search. I listed them on a slide, but it doesn't look as impressive.

How do I capture a picture of what that looks like?

Thanks!

christie1111 wrote:I would like to include a 'screen shot' of a search page in a presentation.

I don't know if I said that right though.

I have a database that I can use to search for things. I would like to show a picture of what it looks like when I go to search for something. Like all the fields I can fill in to search. I listed them on a slide, but it doesn't look as impressive.

How do I capture a picture of what that looks like?

Thanks!

Do a "print screen" (that should be a function key somewhere on the top right of your keyboard) and then paste it into Paint and save it as a .jpg.

I'm sure there's some other brilliant way to do it, but that's always been the "I'm a computer dumby" way I've done it when I needed to save a screen shot for something.

Sometimes it helps to read the 'Help' section of the application you are using. In it, there was an exact picture of what I wanted so I just copied it!

But someone here suggested getting SnagIt! so I think I will request that app.

Thanks Fanny!

christie1111 wrote:Sometimes it helps to read the 'Help' section of the application you are using. In it, there was an exact picture of what I wanted so I just copied it!

But someone here suggested getting SnagIt! so I think I will request that app.

Thanks Fanny!

SnagIt is a wonderful tool - I use it in my office and purchased a copy for home use as well. It even has a video capture mode that allowed me to record my taking the online J! test so that I could go back and check my answers later.

Sisyphean Fan wrote:Do a "print screen" (that should be a function key somewhere on the top right of your keyboard) and then paste it into Paint and save it as a .jpg.

Depending on what, exactly, you want to save, you might also try alt + print screen (holding down the alt key while pressing the print screen key). This copies the image of your current window, while print screen copies the entire image from your screen, including the buttons and system tray from the bottom.

It also helps if people tell you how to get that mysterious "print screen" key to actually, well, print. Nowadays. Used to send message to your printer, but not any more, at least not likely.
Whether keys still do what they say they'll do on the lettering on them depends on the age of your system.

I believe its its "ctrl-V".

Yup that's it. I just did it. ctrl-V put what I had snatched with "print screen" key into
a Word document.

I'd bet there are other ways too, but I don't know them.

Anyone want to pipe up?

(for the sarcasm-impaired, that last comment was just a bit sarcastic. I'm not biting my lips with rage or anything.

I've got a modern definition of sarcasm, though I don't know if its in a dictionary as yet:

You say something totally absurd, seemingly-innocently, as though you thought it were true.
Its so absurd people laugh, because if it were true, it would be funny.

Well, there's a certain amount of irony in there too, but there is intrinsically, in sarcasm.

I'd bet irony has some ancient Greek or Latin root that isn't even close to the modern
meaning, either.)

What makes this whole thread kind of interesting is that in a Galaxy Far Far Away, back last summer, some work-unit who greatly resembles me was given the instruction to "send us your problems in a screen shot" (instead of calling the nice new-program-help person who always helped; TPTB wanted "the rest of the help team to get involved", which they could theoretically do via e-mail, but couldn't do by breaking in to a direct phone call to the person who actually knows how to help. Apparently, "good business practise" is never to be able to ask directly a question of the person who will be able to answer it, but to go through about 18 newly-installed layers of bureaucracy 1st.).

At any rate, the people giving this instruction forgot one little thing, which was instruction on how the hell to do a screen shot.

So I asked here, got the answer, & of course passed it along to work-unit who resembles me in the bizarro universe.

And now I pass it back here.

Turns out "paste" does work, too. And here I thought ctrl-V was magic! Well, it still is.

ghostjmf wrote:Turns out "paste" does work, too. And here I thought ctrl-V was magic! Well, it still is.

Ctrl + V is not magic, it is the pre-mouse shortcut for paste. Two other common ones are:

Ctrl + X = Cut
Ctrl + C = Copy

Estonut wrote:

Sisyphean Fan wrote:Do a "print screen" (that should be a function key somewhere on the top right of your keyboard) and then paste it into Paint and save it as a .jpg.

Depending on what, exactly, you want to save, you might also try alt + print screen (holding down the alt key while pressing the print screen key). This copies the image of your current window, while print screen copies the entire image from your screen, including the buttons and system tray from the bottom.

Thanks, Estonut! I didn't know that and I've always just used Paint to crop off the stuff around the stuff I want.

Sisyphean Fan wrote:Thanks, Estonut! I didn't know that and I've always just used Paint to crop off the stuff around the stuff I want.

You're welcome. Happy to help!