Sometimes you may want to grab an image that is on your computer screen.  Like an image in a .pdf file or part of a web page.  Maybe details or instructions.  Do it using a “screen capture”.   Hitting ” Alt – Print Screen ” will copy your active window to your clip board.  Then open your favorite graphics editor, or MS Paint, and start a new document,  pasting your copied screen image into it.  Now you can crop out and save any piece of the image you want to keep.

Simple and very useful.

So many people don’t know this simple but useful Windows trick!!

Suppose you need to include a picture of a particular Web site in a newsletter or memo. There’s no need to go to a lot of trouble. All you have to do is press Alt + Print Screen. This will capture the active screen and save it to the Windows Clipboard. Now, you can run Paint or another graphics program and press Ctrl + V to paste the picture into the paint program. There you can crop and edit to get exactly the part you want. Or, if you’re currently working on your newsletter and you want the whole image, you can just paste the picture directly into your word processor.