How to Take a Screen Shot of a
Window and a Screen Shot of a
Web Page.
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How to Take a Screen Shot of a Window and a Screen Shot of a Web
Page.
Everyone probably knows there is a Print Screen (PrtScn) button on their
keyboard, but not everyone knows what it does. The Print Screen button
is used to copy your entire screen to the clipboard which then can be
pasted by using Edit Paste or the CTRL V key combination. So, for
example, if you wanted a screen shot of your desktop added to a Word
document you would press the PrtScn button and then go into your Word
document and select Edit Past or the combination of the CTRL & V keys
to paste the image.
The problem most people have is not knowing how to get a screen shot of
just the current active Window. The PrtScn button by itself takes an
image of all the screens. So if you have 2 monitors the image will be of
both screens. By holding the ALT key and then pressing PrtScn the
current active Window will only be saved to the clipboard and then can
be pasted into your Word document or Paint program.
The PrtScn & Alt key on most keyboards are located here.
But how do you take a screen shot of a web page? Most web pages are
longer than your screen. They require you to scroll down and if you press
ALT + PrtScn you will only see the Browser window and what is on your
screen. Using a web service is the way to go. There are a lot of free web
services that lets you capture an entire web page as an image. But the best
one we have found is snapito.com .
By using their web service you can take a screen shot of an entire web
site. Copy the image, by right clicking on the website inside the
snapito.com page and selecting “Copy Image”, and then paste it into
whatever program you need it in.
Snapito.com and other web services will work most of the time. You
might have problems if the website was not responding properly or
Snapito or other web services could not read the site properly due to
unusual site design.