Print Screen does not Work

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Robert

When I go to ALT ,SHIFT,PRINT SCREEN, in order to print
what I see on the screen, nothing happens.When I hit
print, it prints the entire page rater than the portion
that I have enlarged (which is the only part I want to
print).I have gone to the Help line and also tried to
follow the instructions of others but to no avail.
Anyone have ideas? We have a second computer and
it behaves the same (both running xp).Is ther some some
program common to both computers that is preventing the
Print Screen from working?
 
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Robert said:
When I go to ALT ,SHIFT,PRINT SCREEN, in order to print
what I see on the screen, nothing happens.
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Back in the days of DOS, the PrintScrn key used to print the
screen. But in all versions of Windows, this works differently,
and the name of the key is now an anachronism.

To use the key, press it to capture an image of the entire
screen, or press alt-PrintScrn to capture an image of the active
window. Either one captures the image to the Windows clipboard.
Once it's in the clipboard you can paste (Ctrl-V) it into any
application that supports graphics (Windows Paint, other graphics
programs, even your favorite word processor). You can edit or add
to the image as you wish, then print it.

This ability to manipulate the image in a program before printing
it is an improvement over the original DOS method of just
printing it. But if you'd like that old facility back, there are
several third-party freeware/shareware programs that can do this.
 
I believe it is working exactly as it is designed. In order to only print
selected portions of a screen, you need third party software. One I can
recommend is called HyperSnap DX and they have a free trial available at the
following site:
http://www.hyperionics.com/

In addition to allowing you to select and print only portions of a page, it
can also scroll a page allowing you to capture even the region that is
off-screen.

In order to accomplish you appear to be trying to do natively in Windows, I
believe you would need to copy and paste the portion you wish to print into
a document and then print that document or image file.
 
Greetings --

Pressing the <PrtScn> key copies the entire display to the
clipboard. Pressing <ALT>+<PrtScn> copies only the active Window to
the clipboard (iow, into RAM). To view the screen capture, open a
graphics program, such as MS Paint, and press <CTRL>+V. This will
paste the contents of the clipboard (your screenshot) into the open
file, and allow you to view it or save it as a file for later use.

How to Capture Screen Shots in Windows Using the Print Screen Key
http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?PR=1&scid=kb;en-us;Q173884


Bruce Chambers

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