Simplest Method
In standard keyboard (It might different in laptop keyboards) you can see key called "Print Screen". Simply pressing the key will capture your whole screen.
If you press (ALT+ Print Screen) will capture the active window at the time press the key combination.
And then open Microsoft paint or any other picture editing tool (Photo Shop) and open a new project or file and press (CTRL+ V) or paste command to paste what you captured in to the file and you can edit it as you want. Also you can directly copy that into a Microsoft Word files if you do not require any editing.
Is there any free software for that? Yes.
ScreenPrint32 is a free simple software that will make screen print little bit in easy. After downloading and installing ScreenPrint32 you can configure it as you want.
It gives couple of options as follows.
* You can Capture the full desktop or Active windows - This is same as normal Print Screen method.
* Capture Active Window
* Prompt User for Capture Area - I like this option as I do not want to use picture editing software to remove all the unwanted bits from the screen print.
* Capture a pre-Define area
If you have difficulties finding the print screen in your key board you can also select another key from ScreenPrint32.
You can send it to a printer straight away. But I do not like this option as it will waste lot of papers and I do not require to print all my print screens. So I disable this option.
Save Option is one of the coolest functions you can find in ScreenPrint32. You can directly save the captures screen shot into a file base on the location and the picture file format you selected.
This is a simple but really useful way to capture screen shots and use it to make your presentation interesting. Do you know any better ways to take screen shots?
