Screen+Shots

**//Windows users://**
Hit your **Print Screen** key. It is located above the Insert key towards the right side of your keyboard. Pressing the Print Screen key captures the entire image of your screen and places it on your clipboard. To place it in your document, open the document and **Edit - Paste**. If you want to capture only the active window (the window 'on top') so you don't have to crop out unneeded parts of the graphic, press **ALT + Print Screen**. Paste in your document as before. If you want only a portion of the captured image and are using a Microsoft Office product, use the **Pictures** toolbar to crop.

**//Macintosh OS X users://**
1. **Command(Apple)-Shift-3** allows you to capture the entire desktop and //save// the captured image. The screen shot will be saved as a file on your desktop. You then insert it into your document and also have the option of renaming and keeping it for future use. 2. **Command-Control-Shift-3** captures the entire desktop and saves it to your clipboard. The temporarily saved file is then pasted into your document. 3. **Command-Shift-4** captures a portion of the desktop and saves the captured image to your desktop. Use the cross-hair cursor that appears and click and drag to select only the area you wish to capture. When you release the mouse button, the screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop. (The file is saved as PDF in Mac OS 10.3 and earlier.) 4. **Command-Shift-4-spacebar** captures a specific application //window//. The cursor will change to a camera, and you can move it around the screen. As you move the cursor over an application window, the window will be highlighted. The entire window does not need to be visible for you to capture it. When you have the cursor over the window you want to capture, click the mouse button and the screen shot will be saved as a PNG file on your desktop. (The file is saved as PDF in Mac OS 10.3 and earlier.)

//Note:// Add **Control** to the two shortcuts above to place the screen shot on the clipboard instead of saving it to the desktop.

Macintosh OS 9 users:
1. **Command(Apple)-Shift-3** creates a picture file of the entire screen and saves it as a file named 'Picture 1', 'Picture 2', etc. to the top level of your hard drive directory. You then insert this picture in to your desired document. You can later rename this file and save for later use.

2. **Control-Command-Shift-3** copies the entire screen capture to the Clipboard instead of saving it as a file.

3. **Command-Shift-4** allows you to create and save a picture file of a rectangular section of the screen. After pressing and releasing the key combination, drag across the part of the screen you want to take a picture of. The screen shot is saved as a picture file. See #1 above.

4. **Control-Command-Shift-4** copies a selected portion of screen to clipboard instead of saving it as a file.

5. **Command-Shift-Caps Lock-4** creates a picture file of a window and copies it to your clipboard. After pressing and releasing the key combination, click the window you want to take a picture of.