1. Introduction
Your Digital Toolkit
Chapter 1: Managing Your Time with
Microsoft Outlook 2010
Chapter 2: Using Microsoft OneNote
2010
Chapter 3: Taking Screenshots
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2. Chapter 3
Taking Screenshots
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3. Chapter 3: Taking Screenshots
A screenshot
• Captures a picture of your computer monitor screen.
• Can be used to create a simple instruction manual by
inserting the screenshots in a document.
• Can also be attached to an email message.
• Of the entire desktop can be captured by using the
Print Screen key.
• Is then copied to the clipboard.
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4. Skills You Learn
• Take a Screenshot
• Use the Snipping Tool
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5. Skill 1: Take a Screenshot
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Close any open windows to clear your desktop.
Press the Print Screen key to copy a screenshot, or image, of the desktop.
Click the Start button.
Click All Programs.
Click Accessories.
Click WordPad to open the program.
Click the WordPad tab.
Click Page setup.
Click the Landscape option in the Orientation section of the Page Setup
dialog box.
• Click OK to close the Page Setup dialog box.
• Click the Paste button in the Clipboard group on the Home tab to paste
the screenshot of your desktop into the document.
• Close the document.
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6. Accessories
WordPad
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7. WordPad tab
Page setup
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8. Using the Paint Program If you want to
edit a screenshot, you can paste the
screenshot in an image editing program,
such as the Paint program.
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9. Skill 2: Use the Snipping Tool
• Click the Start button.
• Click All Programs and Accessories.
• Click Snipping Tool in the list of applications. The screen dims and
the Snipping Tool window appears.
• Position the mouse pointer on the top-left corner of the Taskbar.
• Press and hold the left mouse button and then drag your mouse to
the lower-right corner of the Taskbar. The selected area is
surrounded by a red border.
• Release the left mouse button to display the screenshot in the
Snipping Tool window.
• Click the Copy button to copy the screenshot to the Clipboard.
• Click the Start button and then click WordPad.
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10. Skill 2: Use the Snipping Tool, continued
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Click the Paste button in the Clipboard group on the Home tab to paste the
Taskbar screenshot into the document.
Press the Enter key and then type, This screenshot of the Taskbar was created
using the Snipping Tool.
Close the WordPad document.
Click the Don’t Save button to close the WordPad window without saving the
document.
Click the Close button in the upper-right corner of the Snipping Tool window.
In the warning box asking if you want to save changes to the snip, click No.
Start OneNote.
Click the Introduction Toolkit tab.
Click a blank area of the page and then click the Paste button in the Clipboard
group on the Home tab to paste the screenshot of the Taskbar on the
OneNote page.
Type The Windows Taskbar and close OneNote.
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11. Copy button
Screenshot displayed in
Snipping Tool window
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12. Learning More about the Snipping
Tool When you capture screenshots with
the Snipping Tool, you can save them in a
variety of common graphic file formats,
including JPG, PNG, and GIF.
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