Print screen.

[brassman80]

I bought a HP dv9623 in May last year. Today I tried, for the first time, to
use print screen and it does not work. Do I need to activate something?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What were you expecting PrintScreen to do? Only in DOS does it actually
print your screen to the printer. In Windows it copies a picture of the
screen to the Clipboard, whence you can paste it into any application.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[brassman80]

What were you expecting PrintScreen to do? Only in DOS does it actually
print your screen to the printer. In Windows it copies a picture of the
screen to the Clipboard, whence you can paste it into any application.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org



I tried to take a pic of a music score in a music notation program and paste it in word. I had to do it on my pc which uses XP instead and wondered why I couldn't do it on my laptop which uses vista.

 

[Tony Jollans]

It is possible that you need to press an unusual key combination (Fn and
something, perhaps) to invoke it on a laptop. Is the key labeled in colour?

 

[grammatim]

Your music notation program should have a "Save As" option of .pdf;
you then have a graphics file you can use anywhere (and it isn't
ephemeral). Or other format such as .jpg.

 

[brassman80]

It is possible that you need to press an unusual key combination (Fn and
something, perhaps) to invoke it on a laptop. Is the key labeled in colour?

--
Enjoy,
Tony

www.WordArticles.com



The key is the same as the home key. I tried to carry out an operation which I normally do on my PC and couldn't so I had to revert to doing it on my PC. This brought me to wonder what was wrong as I feel that it should be the same on my laptop. Every other function is.

 

[Tony Jollans]

The key is the same as the home key. I tried to carry out an operation
Sorry, but I'm not really understanding you here. However, if "Print Screen"
is on the Home Key, then I suspect you need to press the Fn key either
before, or at the same time as, the Home/PrtSc key.