"William J. Leary Jr." wrote in message
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"my_realtor" wrote in message
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The company sent me instructions on how
to take a shot of what was on my monitor screen so
they could see what the error messages were that I
was getting. I've lost the instructions.

With no applications selected, it ALT-PrintScreen. This puts a copy
of the
entire screen on the clipboard.

Open Paint (or some other BMP capable program) and do a paste.

If, instead, you want just a particular application, select it first,
then to
the ALT-PrintScreen.

It's in help somewhere. I found it once, by accident, and I don't
recall how.
Every direct approach ("capture screen", "print screen", etc.) I've
tried since
fails.

- Bill


Printscreen puts a copy of the screen into the clipboard,
alt-printscreen puts a copy of the currently selected window into the
clipboard.
Regards Mike.