Lesson, Tricks, Tips

oToday's cool lesson is "Drag and Drop". I learned the other day that it is not neccessary to arrange your windows side by side to accomplish this. Nor do you have to Cut and Paste. By first highlighting the text, and then dragging it over the other program in the Taskbar, said program will automatically jump to the front. This is cool.

PRINT SCREEN: Hold down the control key and look in the upper right side above your letter keys for "Print Screen SysRq" or "Prnt Scrn" or something to that effect and hit it. Next, open a new file in "Paint" (Probably Start/Programs/Accessories/Paint). Next under Edit, select Paste. Next, under File, select "save as" give it a name, and be to sure choose JPEG where it says Save as Type. You can now make screenshots of whatever you wish. This is cool.

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Print Screen...I use that every week to make a summary page of about 20 to 25 different screens, for easy viewing of others I email it to...

A couple of handy hints...

You don't need to paste it into Paint, you can paste it into any program, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.

The summary page I produce are all excel spreadsheets, and I realized I could make it more legible if I created a macro that would crop the off the bottom, top and sides of the print screen, getting rid of all the tool bars, scroll bars, etc., I included in the macro enlarging what was left of the print screen so it's as big as possible.

To make the macro easier to access, I pasted a clip art of whatever at the top of the summary page, right clicked the picture and assigned it the macro. (then, I freeze framed the sheet so the clip are can always be seen at the top.

That way, I can just print screen all 20 or so of the sheets, then, clicking on the pasted print screen, just click on the clip are and it runs the marcro, formating the print screen.

It's a super duper time saver.