Introduction to K200 – Part 2: The Screenshot Introduction to K200 ‐ Part 2: The Screenshot By Margaret Lion Show Desktop If you have several windows open and wish to see the Desktop again, you could minimize or close all of the windows. However, it is faster and easier to use the following method. 1.
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Right‐click on a blank part of taskbar. Don’t right‐click on a task button. After you right‐click you will see a new menu. Click on Show the Desktop. All of your opened windows will now minimize and you will see the Desktop. OR Click at end of taskbar. 5. Click on the space in the lower right hand corner of the taskbar. 6. You will now see the Desktop. Right‐click anywhere on the taskbar and click Show the Desktop. By Margaret Lion, Dept. of Kinesiology, Indiana University School of Public Health‐Bloomington, for K200 Microcomputer Applications in Kinesiology. 2016© 1 Introduction to K200 – Part 2: The Screenshot DO: If you do not have it, then recreate the file Lastname_Firstname_WordPad_Practice.rtf that you made in Part 1: Getting to Know the STC Computer. Make sure you save it on the Desktop and open it. If you saved the file, put it on your Desktop and open it. Remember: If you double‐click on the WordPad document to open it from the Desktop it will automatically open in Word. This is acceptable for the class. However, if you want to continue working in WordPad, then you must open WordPad as you did before. Then click File, click Open, and then click on the document. You may use either WordPad or Word when working on this document. Taking A Screenshot A screenshot is a picture of your Desktop. Look at the upper right corner of your keyboard you will see three buttons. They are Print Screen/SysRq, Scroll Lock, and Pause/Break. The Print Screen/SysRq, or just Print Screen button, is the one you will use to take a screenshot. For this exercise, make sure that all of your windows on your Desktop are minimized, including the WordPad document you created earlier. 1.
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Double‐click the Computer icon to open it. Press the PrintScreen button. Click on the task button for your WordPad document. Click inside the document underneath your name. Click Edit and then Paste. The Desktop image will appear in the document. (See the picture below.) Yes, the image may be too large to be completely seen in the document. If it is, we will fix that next. If not, read the below instructions anyway as you will need to resize images many times in your life. By Margaret Lion, Dept. of Kinesiology, Indiana University School of Public Health‐Bloomington, for K200 Microcomputer Applications in Kinesiology. 2016© 2 Introduction to K200 – Part 2: The Screenshot Resize the Picture If a picture is too large or too small to be useful, change the size. You can easily make the picture smaller by doing the following: 1. Make sure to click on the image to select it. This means the computer will now work with just the image. The image is selected when you can see a thin line around the image and squares in the corners and sides of the image. 2. Click on the lower right corner of the image so that your mouse changes shape and looks like a double sided arrow. 3. Click and drag in to the center of the picture. Notice that while you do this, the picture becomes smaller. 4. Keep dragging and making the image smaller until it fits inside the 6” ruler mark displayed at the top of your document. This mark is shown as a triangle on the ruler. Your document should look similar to the picture below. 5. Make sure to save your work by clicking File then Save or the Save button. By Margaret Lion, Dept. of Kinesiology, Indiana University School of Public Health‐Bloomington, for K200 Microcomputer Applications in Kinesiology. 2016© 3 Introduction to K200 – Part 2: The Screenshot 6. It is now saved on the Desktop. Save button. 6” mark. Remember: You will need the Lastname_Firstname_WordPad_Practice.rtf file for the next parts in the instruction. If you do not yet know how to save this on your USB stick or in Box at IU, attach it to an email and email it to yourself. You can download it from your email when you wish to work on it next. (Your instructor, Ms. Lion does this a lot.) Proceed to Canvas and take the Part 2: The Screenshot quiz. By Margaret Lion, Dept. of Kinesiology, Indiana University School of Public Health‐Bloomington, for K200 Microcomputer Applications in Kinesiology. 2016© 4