How to Do a Screen Shot

This article will show you step-by-step how to do a screen shot. This is a very easy task to do. Taking a screen shot will take a picture of what you see on your computer screen.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Computer
• Microsoft Word

1. First, you will need to decide what you want to take a screen shot of. Do you want to take a picture of everything on your screen or just one active window on your computer?

2. If you want to take a screen shot of your entire screen, you can simply hit the "fn" button and then click on the "prt sc" button.

3. If you want to take a picture of one active window you can hit "alt" and the "prt sc" button.

4. Next, you will want to open up Microsoft Word. Once you open up a new document you can hit "ctrl" and the "v" button to paste.

5. Now you will see a picture of your entire screen or the active window that you wanted to take a picture of.

Tips & Warnings

• The "fn" key is located on the bottom left hand side of your keyboard.
• The "prt sc" button is located on the top right hand side of your keyboard next to the delete button.
• You will only need to hit the "fn" key if the "prt sc" button has a box around it. If you do not hit the "fn" key and turn that feature on, you will be hitting the "insert" key.

[coachmac4]

on 4/18/2009 Thanks for this informative Screen shot article. I have never heard of the fn key. My keyboard doesn't have it.