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A "screen cap" is a simple term for capturing the exact screen you are looking at on your computer to use later in a document or email. By catching the screen you can put it in files, emails, power points, etc. Here are directions to create and save a "screen cap":
  1. Hold down the "ALT" key and press the "Print Scrn" key. "Print Scrn" is the first of 3 buttons to the right of the function keys located along the top of your keyboard. This saves an image of the active window onto the clipboard.
    Note: The clipboard can only hold ONE (1) image at a time. You must paste each screen capture BEFORE taking additional screen captures.
  2. Open the file in which you want to place the screen capture.
  3. Position your cursor where you want to place the screen capture.
  4. Go to the FILE menu and select PASTE. The image will now appear in the location you specified.
Taking a picture of the desktop on your PC (all windows, background, icons, etc.):
  1. Press "Print Scrn" "Print Scrn" is the first of 3 buttons to the right of the function keys located along the top of your keyboard. This saves an image of the active window onto the clipboard.
    Note: The clipboard can only hold ONE (1) image at a time. You must paste each screen capture BEFORE taking additional screen captures.
  2. Open the file in which you want to place the screen capture.
  3. Position your cursor where you want to place the screen capture.
  4. Go to the FILE menu and select PASTE. The image will now appear in the location you specified.
A "screen cap" is a simple term for capturing the exact screen you are looking at on your computer to use later in a document or email. By catching the screen you can put it in files, emails, power points, etc. Here are directions to create and save a "screen cap":

You can take a picture, or "screen shot," of your entire screen using the Grab application.
  1. Open Grab (located in /Applications/Utilities).
  2. Choose Capture > Screen.
  3. When the Screen Grab dialog opens, click outside that window.
Grab captures the screen within a few seconds. A new window appears with an image of your entire screen. If you want a pointer to appear in a particular place on the screen, make sure that pointer is selected in Grab Preferences. When you take your screen shot, click the place on the screen where you want the pointer to appear.
Mac Shortcuts:
Taking a picture of an active windowon your Mac (For example, the contents of you disk.)
Note: a plus sign (+) means to hold keys down together.
  1. Press: Apple+Shift+4+CapsLock
  2. Then hold down CONTROL and click on the window you want to capture.
  3. This saves the image to the clipboard.
    Note: The clipboard can only hold ONE image at a time. You must paste each image BEFORE taking additional pictures. Open the file in which you want to place the screen capture.
  4. Position your cursor where you want to place the screen capture.
  5. Go to the EDIT menu and select PASTE. The image will now appear in the location you specified.
Taking a picture of a portion of the screenon your Mac (For example, a select group of icons.)
Note: A plus sign (+) means to hold keys down together.
  1. Press: Apple+Shift+4 (*make sure the caps lock is off.)
  2. A cross will appear. Draw a box around the section you want holding down the mouse button. Press CONTROL before releasing the mouse button.
  3. This saves the image to the clipboard.
    Note: The clipboard can only hold ONE image at a time. You must paste each image BEFORE taking additional pictures. Open the file in which you want to place the screen capture.
  4. Position your cursor where you want to place the screen capture.
  5. Go to the EDIT menu and select PASTE. The image will now appear in the location you specified.
Taking a picture of the entire desktop on your Mac (all windows, background, icons, etc.)
Note: A plus sign (+) means to hold keys down together.
  1. Press: Apple+Shift+3
  2. This saves the image to the clipboard.
    Note: The clipboard can only hold ONE image at a time. You must paste each image BEFORE taking additional pictures. Open the file in which you want to place the screen capture.
  3. Position your cursor where you want to place the screen capture.
  4. Go to the EDIT menu and select PASTE. The image will now appear in the location you specified.