How to Edit a Pasted Printscreen Command on an Excel Sheet

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Editing in Excell or any program can be tricky! Follow these simple steps and you will be able to edit any print screen for Excell!

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

Step1
Make sure to have Excel and Word both open.
Step2
Have the screen open that you want to copy.
Hold down the following keys in this order.
1. Ctrl - Print Screen: Then Release
2. Ctrl - "C": Then Release
Step3
Go to a blank word document and hold down the following keys
Ctrl - "V": Then Release
Your Print Screen image should appear
Step4
Crop Tool Click on the image to select it.
The Picture toolbar should appear.
If the picture toolbar does not appear go to View - Toolbars - Picture and the toolbar should appear
Step5
Select the Crop Tool as shown above by clicking on it.
Step6
Once you have Selected the crop tool, click on the corner of the image you want to edit. Drag the corner until the image looks as you would like it to and release. This can be repeated several times until the image is cropped to its desired size and shape.
Step7
Right click on your copied image and select copy. Then go to your Excel document and Select from the toolbar - Edit -Paste.
Your image should appear.
You can now click on your image and move it anywhere you would like. At this point you can also resize the image by clicking on the edge and dragging it in for decreasing the size of the image and out for increasing the size of the image.

Tips & Warnings

  • I hope this helps with all of your adventures in Excel and other Microsoft Applications!
  • Send me a message if you have any questions!

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on 12/6/2007 Thanks Man! But what I am interested in is not how to crop or resize, but how to edit the 'printscreen' picture, i.e. add/delete/modify rows or coloumns or add/delete/modify comments. Adobe writer is of some help, but not to the full extent.

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