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Has this happened to you one time or the other when working at home on your computer? You’re humming along just fine working away through your company’s system, website, or intranet. Then suddenly you get an error message or the system’s output changes. I know it has happened to me once or twice (ok more than that – but who’s counting, right?).

So, you email your boss and he or she tells you to email him/her a screen shot. Yes, the tech people need that to help figure out the problem. Oh, ok, you think to yourself. How in the heck do I do that? Well, have no fear as I will tell you how here. It’s quite simply really.

To capture your entire computer screen, locate the Print Screen button on your keyboard. It can be in various places depending on your keyboard, but most keyboards have this button in the upper right hand corner of the keyboard.

Hit that Print Screen button.

Next, open up your imaging software. Paint works just fine. You will find the Paint program by going to Start, All Programs, Accessories, Paint.

Open up the Paint program and select Paste - Ctrl + V or choose the Edit, then Paste menu in Paint. This will paste the entire image of the computer screen into the Paint software. You can then use the Paint’s cropping features to alter the image is needed.

Next, just again Paste this image into an email or Word document and you are all set.

Suppose you only want to capture the current window you are working in. You can do this by holding down the ALT button while simultaneously holding down the Print Screen button.

So now you know how to capture a screen shot! Try it out, it’s actually quite neat!

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