Screen Snapshot Procedure
GEO 465/565 Distance Ed. Labs
Try this procedure:
- Open ArcMap (or ArcCatalog, etc.).
- Display a View that is part of one of the exercises (e.g., your current ArcMap window).
- Press Print Screen key on the keyboard (the Print Screen key is
usually located next to the F12 key on the top row of the keyboard) -
this will take a "snapshot" of your screen and put it onto your
computer's "clipboard". On Windows XP it is [shift key]Print Screen.
- Open the Windows Paint accessory (by default, this is part of the
Start menu under Programs, Accessories).
- Press Ctrl+V to paste the contents of the Windows clipboard. Paint
may ask you whether to increase the size of the current bitmap to
accommodate the clipboard. If it does ask, say Yes.
- Press Ctrl+S to save the picture to a file. You can choose whatever
filename you like as long as you remember what name you have chosen and
what folder it's in.
- You will see an entry at the bottom of the dialog box labelled "Save
As Type". Open the list and select "JPEG File Interchange Format". If
"JPEG File Interchange Format" is not available, select "16 Color
Bitmap", because it makes the file six times smaller. Paint will warn
you that some colour information will be discarded, but you can always
look at the saved result to make sure that nothing important has been
lost.
- Close Windows Paint.
- Go into MS Word and choose Insert --->Picture--->File and then select
the image file that you just saved
- The screen snapshot should now be inserted into your document. You
can type your text descriptions into the same document.
If the above does not work, try one of the many, many FREE, third-party
screen capture utilities that are out there on the Internet, such as,
Snag-it, www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/ (But beware! The trial version may not last as long as the 10-week term of this course!)
Others are listed here, www.passtheshareware.com/c_p-scrn.htm
http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/gis/screen.html
© 1998 Dawn Wright