In the lab book you will see the following for a step.

“Take a screen shot of the message box by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and paste it into your LabO3_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V”

Instead of using the Alt+Prt Scr you will use the Sinpping tool that is part of the Windows 7 operating system.

Before you start the Snipping tool make sure the desktop is showing the information you are to copy and then paste into the worksheet.

You will find the Snipping tool in All programs/Accessories/Snipping Tool.

When you start the Snipping tool the following window will appear.

The desktop will lighten and a hollow cross hair will appear.

The directions say to “Drag the cursor around the area you want to chapture.

Mover the cursor to one corner of a box that will enclose the whole part of the screen you want to capture.

Hold down the left mouse button and drang out a box over the area you want to capture.

Release the left mouse button when you have the area selected.  The following dialog box will appear with the area you selected inside of the snipping tool box..

You can either

copy

Or

save

the image you have captured.

If you copy go to the lab worksheet and using Ctrl + C paste it in the area below the place indicated for the image.

If you save the captured image to your USB drive you can later paste it into the worksheet.

Once we get beyond lab 3 you might want to pin the Snipping tool to the task bar.

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Date modified 12-23-12