Screen Capture

Print Screen or Screen Capture

In this course you are required to forward the results of your tests and exams by a screen capture.

Dropbox now has an automatic screen capture feature. For PCs simply press the print screen button and it will be saved in the "Screenshots" folder. Then move the file to your personal folder, the file named "Screen_Captures_Tests_Only" and rename it.

PC

PC users can press the Print screen key and then paste it into MS Word or a graphics program.

Print screen(often abbreviated) Prt Scr, Print Scrn, Prt Scn, or Prnt Scrn) is a key present on most PC keyboards. [1]

IMB Keyboard

Figure 1. Portion of IBM keyboard. The print screen key is circled in red. [2]

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Mac

In addition to the Grab application, you can also use keyboard shortcuts to take pictures of the screen in Mac OS X.

To take a picture of the whole screen, press Command-Shift-3.

To take a picture of part of the screen, press Command-Shift-4 and drag to select the area you want.

For more information see link

To copy the screen capture to the Clipboard instead of saving it as a file, press Control-Command-Shift-3 to copy the entire screen to the Clipboard, or Control-Command-Shift-4 to copy the selected range to the Clipboard.[3]

Acknowledgement for book graphic in the body of the document: Image courtesy of adamr at FreeDigitalPhotos.net

References

[1] "Print Screen."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_screen(accessed 22 Apr. 12)

[2] IBM keyboard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KeyboardWithPrintScreenRinged.svg
(accessed 22 Apr. 12)

[3] Mac.http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61544(accessed 22 Apr. 12)

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Print Screen or Screen Capture

PC

Mac