In this article I want to show you how to make one screenshot of pc screen and put it inside a document Word. It is quite frequent the situation in which it is necessary to capture a screenshot from the PC to be able to insert it as an image in a document. I want to show you two methods to do this: one more simple and universal, the other more practical and SMART. Follow me in reading the article.
What is the use of taking a screenshot of the pc
Uno screenshot it is none other than an image of what you see on the screen. Taking a screenshot of the pc therefore means taking a photograph of what you see on the screen. This feature proves itself very helpful on a large number of occasions. For example, I use it all the time: every time I write a new article I enrich it with screenshots from my pc.
Screenshots help better understand a text making it richer and more interesting. They are essential if you want to send one screen of your pc to a colleague or friend, or if you want take a picture of something you see on the screen and that you are unable to download as an image.
Microsoft Word allows you to take a screenshot of the pc and insert it into the text in a very simple way, and now I want to show you 2 methods to do it.
How to take a pc screenshot in Word
The universal method
To take a screenshot of the pc you must first open the screen you want to capture. Once you have it open you have to press the Print Screen key on your keyboard once. The Print Screen key is usually located in the part top right of the keyboard, near F12; keep in mind, however, that in some PCs, especially laptops, it may be in different places.
Once you hit the key Stamp, apparently nothing will happen, but only in appearance! Indeed by pressing Print Screen you have made a Screenshot of your pc screen, which is saved in memory and is ready to be pasted into Word.
To paste the screenshot to Word all you have to do is position yourself inside the document, at the point where you want to paste the image, e press the key combination Ctrl+V.
The SMART method
To insert a screenshot with the method SMART all you have to do is click on Insert -> Screenshot and select the window you want to paste into your document.
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