PRINT SCREEN button

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I just want to know how I make the PRINT SCREEN button work while I am using
a tutorial that was made available through an email.
I press PRINT SCREEN...nothing happens.
I press ALT + PRINT SCREEN ... nothing happens.
Can I use PRINT SCREEN in any program?
 
It actually takes a 'capture' of the screen. The Printscrn button is from
early computer days when it did send a screen dump to a printer. But with
today's modern PC's it merely captures the active screen or window.

Maybe the button should be "SrcnCptre" for "Screen Capture" which is what
that button does.
 
As others have stated, the PrintScreen button only does a
screen capture in Windows. Alt-Printscreen also does a
capture, but only of the active window

Solutions:
1. Use MSPaint as previously suggested
2. There are printscreen programs (American Systems-Print
Screen Deluxe) which will automatically print the captured
image.

I cannot tell for sure from your post, but it looks like you
may only want text. You can do a CTRL-A (or use >Edit
Select All) and copy the actual text and paste that into
what ever text editor/word processor that you want



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:I just want to know how I make the PRINT SCREEN button work
while I am using
: a tutorial that was made available through an email.
: I press PRINT SCREEN...nothing happens.
: I press ALT + PRINT SCREEN ... nothing happens.
: Can I use PRINT SCREEN in any program?
 
Murray said:
Even in DOS days. Like DOS1....

Well, I remember it.

All I have to do now is to remember where I remember it from

My working experience from 1962 to 2003 would have covered many computers.

But who knows where or when ??
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Cheers,
Trevor L.
[ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
MVPS Website: http://trevorl.mvps.org/
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I think it worked in CP/M. 8)

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Murray
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Trevor L. said:
Murray said:
Even in DOS days. Like DOS1....

Well, I remember it.

All I have to do now is to remember where I remember it from
My working experience from 1962 to 2003 would have covered many computers.

But who knows where or when ??
--
Cheers,
Trevor L.
[ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
MVPS Website: http://trevorl.mvps.org/
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I never mentioned it was a *Microsoft* thing (the screen print actually
*printing* the screen); the PrntScrn button usually sent a screen dump to
printers - probably on unix or other OS networks.
 
I never said Print Screen was a *Windows* function.....merely the function
of the button at some time in history actually sent a screen dump to a
printer.
 
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