How do I get screen shots into my documents?

We will assume that the starting point is that you are looking at something on the screen that you would like to capture.

Press the "PrintScreen" key. On most keyboards it is located just to the right of the F12 key. Pressing PrintScreen causes the screen image to be copied to the clipboard.

Now open the document in which you desire to place the Screen Image, insert some spaces or blank lines at the point where you intend to place the image, select any nearby word of text to serve as the anchor point (double-click on a word to select it), and click the Paste button.

(You must have an anchor point selected, so that you are pasting the image as an anchored graphic. Images will not show up in print outputs and help screens, for example, if they were not pasted as an anchored graphic.)

The image will appear just above the anchor point that you have selected, so you will probably have to drag it to the space that you provided for it.

The image that you have will be the entire screen, no doubt way too big for the document that you just pasted it into. There are three choices:

1. Crop the image to the portion that you want to keep.
2. Resize the image, scaling it to fit.
3. Some combination of (1) and (2).

Go to either lower corner, or the upper right corner of the image to get the cursorsthat you can use to crop the image.

At those same three corners, if you simultaneously press Ctrl and Shift, you get the cursorsthat you can use to scale the image.

You will notice that when you scale images, they lose resolution on your screen pretty fast. Actually, they get bad, then better, then bad, then better again, and so on as you continue scaling. You just have to settle for something that you can live with. Even when they look pretty bad on the screen they still will look good when you print them on laser printers.