[WEB4LIB] Screen captures

[Charles P. Hobbs]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Cathy Cox wrote:

> I've done screen captures before and inserted them into instructional 
> handouts and webpages - but only on a Mac.  Now that we've converted to 
> PCs, I'm having trouble doing the same thing.
> 
> What I'm looking for is the technique for getting a full-screen capture of, 
> say, searching our catalog via Netscape, with all the toolbars and so on, 
> so that I can show students how to navigate and so on.  I've tried ALT-PRNT 
> SCRN, which captures it to the clipboard, but then when I try to open it in 
> Word all I get is gibberish.  I'm sure that there's an easy way to do 
> this.  Anyone care to enlighten me?

How are you trying to open it? Hitting Printscreen (for the whole screen)
or Alt-Printscreen (for the active window only), then going into Word and
selecting "Paste" (Control-V) works fine for me, on various versions of
Windows (3.1, 95, 98) and Word.

Could there be a low memory problem or something?