print screen but only a selected portion

[Guest]

I want to drop a screen dump onto a slide but want to be able to selct just a
portion of the screen to show for better clarity.

Thanks

anthony

 

[Michael Koerner]

You need to paste it into a paint program and crop the portion you want to keep.
Can't do this directly in PowerPoint

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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]


I want to drop a screen dump onto a slide but want to be able to selct just a
portion of the screen to show for better clarity.

Thanks

anthony

 

[Guest]

Thanks. i had been doing that but had hoped there was a more direct way that
I was unaware of, as there often is.

Anyway thanks for taking the time to reply

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks. i had been doing that but had hoped there was a more direct way that
I was unaware of, as there often is.

There is, but it involves a bit more software. Screen capture programs often allow
you to "clip" a selected area from the screen rather than capturing the whole screen
or active window.

There may be free programs available to do this; SnagIt from Techsmith is a good
commercial program. MS OneNote includes a tool to do this also.

Anyway thanks for taking the time to reply

You need to paste it into a paint program and crop the portion you want to keep.
Can't do this directly in PowerPoint

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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]


I want to drop a screen dump onto a slide but want to be able to selct just a
portion of the screen to show for better clarity.

Thanks

anthony

 

[jack_fella]

Here is the solution you find on windows 7 and vista.

Run C:\Windows\system32\SnippingTool.exe

You got it