12th September 2000
Coming from the "Rapid Revolution" department, Lockergnomie Jacob Ludington keeps his Print Screen button warm. When one runs into a program problem, the easiest way to explain it via e-mail is not with words, but with pictures. That Print Screen button still works, gang. Tap it and your Desktop will be magically copied to the clipboard, waiting to be pasted into any image editing application. Depress the ALT key before you hit PRTSCN and it'll only capture the selected window. Great, but what if you don't have time to repeat that process, and need to get those shots off to someone soon? Launch WORDPAD (or your favorite Word Processor). Run through the screen shot routine, but be sure to paste each shot into the newly created WORDPAD document. When you're finished, save that file and blast it over to your contact. Compress it beforehand if you have enough time (using WinZip is recommended). Or, save a few steps and paste the images into an HTML message directly (again, size may become a problem).