What Microsoft Word feature lets you capture a portion of your screen to be used as an image in your document?

What Microsoft Word feature lets you capture a portion of your screen to be used as an image in your document?
Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007 and 2010. If you are using an earlier version (Word 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Word, click here: Capturing a Screen.

There may be times when you need to include a screen shot within your Word document. The easiest way to do this is as follows:

  1. Set up your screen to look the way you want it to.
  2. Press the PrintScreen key. This copies the whole screen to the Clipboard.
  3. Position the insertion point in the document where you want the screen capture inserted.
  4. Press Ctrl+V to paste the contents of the Clipboard.

This action results in the entire screen being pasted in your document. If you wanted to only copy and paste a single dialog box or the active window, simply use Alt+PrintScreen in step 2.

If either of these methods still does not fit your needs (for instance, you want to include only a small part of the screen), you can use the following:

  1. Set up your screen to look the way you want it to.
  2. Press the PrintScreen key. This copies the screen to the Clipboard.
  3. Start your favorite graphics editing program and maximize the screen.
  4. Press Ctrl+V to paste the contents of the Clipboard into the graphics program.
  5. Use the editing tools in the graphics program to change the image as desired.
  6. Use the editing tools to crop the image so that it contains only the portion you want within Word.
  7. Select the entire image in the graphics program and press Ctrl+C to copy it to the Clipboard.
  8. Start Word (if it is not already started) and position the insertion point where you want the image inserted.
  9. Press Ctrl+V to paste the contents of the Clipboard.

You should note that instead of pressing Ctrl+V to paste an image into Word, you can also use the Paste Special option from the Paste control in the Home tab, Clipboard group. This option gives you greater control over what image file format is used to insert the image in your document.

WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (8697) applies to Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010. You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Word here: Capturing a Screen.

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What Microsoft Word feature lets you capture a portion of your screen to be used as an image in your document?

What Microsoft Word feature lets you capture a portion of your screen to be used as an image in your document?

Ever need to pull in an image into your Word doc but don’t want to go through the hassle of taking the screenshot and then importing the image into Word? Now you can insert a screenshot or screen clipping without having to leave your Word application. Watch the video above and read the text below to learn more.

  1. In your Word document, select the Insert tab.
  2. Click Screenshot.
  3. A drop down menu will appear with the option to take a screenshot of a window open on your desktop, or take a screen clipping of only a portion of your screen.
  4. Select the option that suits your need.
  5. The screenshot or screen clipping will insert straight into your Word doc.
  6. Adjust sizing and placement of the image as needed.

Read more here to learn how to insert a screenshot or screen clipping into your Outlook message.

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