Q&A: Taking Screenshots the Way I Want to Take Them
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Question: Hello Erin. I use the “Print Screen” key on my keyboard regularly to take a snapshot of what’s on my monitor - I often send these images via e-mail to friends and employees.
Lately I’m finding it annoying that my entire screen is always captured because sometimes I only want a part of the screen to be captured, something like a dialog box or error message.
Is there a way to have more control over my images when I use Print Screen? Thanks.
Answer: You bet. And it’s easy.
As you know, pressing the Print Screen button on your keyboard takes captures an image of your entire screen.
If you hold down the Alt key the next time you press Print Screen, the active window (the window on your screen that has focus) will be copied to your clipboard, ready for you to paste into whatever program you’d like. Pretty easy, eh?
