Tutorial for print screen

Time to complete: 4Min
In this tutorial you will learn how to easily send the active screen on you computer to somebody in an email.

OK we'll assume your going to send us the bank confirmation screen, if you do this successfully and it looks good to me, then I'll ship your order without waiting for the banks to do what ever it is they do while neither of us have the money??????

After you complete your transaction most banks take you to a screen telling you that the transfer is complete and giving you a reference number. We'll start from that screen, first we need to click the cascade button in the top right that looks like 2 squares to enable us to resize it:

To put the screen into an email let's first get it to a manageable size, resize the screen by left clicking the bottom right corner and dragging it to the size you want.

Make sure you still have all the info you need but nothing more like lots of white space :

Now make sure you don't accidentally click somewhere else on your screen because if you have other windows open like your email program, or the window you clicked then becomes the active window.

You can easily see which windows is active because it's border is darker and is on top of the others:

Now that you have it resized and active, lets copy it to the clipboard. The clipboard is a hidden part of Windows that works whenever you use the cut, copy or paste commands. A special feature of Windows is print screen, we will use this to copy the active screen to the clipboard.

Hold down the "Alt" key then press the "PrtScn" key

Now that you have a copy of the active screen saved as an image on the clipboard we can paste it onto what ever document we like. We will use an email this time.

Open or click on your email program and click reply the Total Control email with the bank details. Put your curser into the body and type something (Hey Grant thanks for the PC lesson BLA BLA......) the email will look a lot neater and be easier to read if you past the picture onto its own line so press enter.

Now put the mouse arrow on the curser location and right click, select paste (shortcut: hold Ctrl and press v), now you should see an image of the screen you copied onto the clipboard.......MAGIC...... Press enter again for another new line and finish typing your email.

If the image is in the wrong location you can click on it and press delete, then try pasting it again to the correct location or click and drag it to a better spot.

Push send and if all is good I will ship your new toys immediately........JOY!

Tips:

• If you press the "PrtScn" key without holding the "Alt" you copy the whole screen (all windows) to the clipbaord.
• keyYou can almost always right click to access the clipboard commands "cut", "copy" and "paste"
• Your clipboard retains the data until you use the copy or cut command and to copy more data which will then replace the last data stored there, so you can past the data as many times as you like.
• If you use the copy command the selected data is left in place and copied to the clip board.
• The cut command removes the data from it's original location and copies it to the clipboard.
• The paste command places the data on the clipboard onto the active document at the location of the curser.
• You can hold down the control key and push the either of these shortcut; keys "X" is cut, "C" is copy and "V" is paste.
• These shortcuts work in most windows programs and if you get to know them it will make your computing life HUGELY easier.

Cheers, I hope this helps.

Grunter