PRINT SCREEN button

[Guest]

I just want to know how I make the PRINT SCREEN button work while I am using
a tutorial that was made available through an email.
I press PRINT SCREEN...nothing happens.
I press ALT + PRINT SCREEN ... nothing happens.
Can I use PRINT SCREEN in any program?

 

[Steve Easton]

After you click Print Screen, open Paint and click Edit > Paste.
Print Screen takes a screenshot, it does not "Print" the screen.

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[Andrew Murray]

It actually takes a 'capture' of the screen. The Printscrn button is from
early computer days when it did send a screen dump to a printer. But with
today's modern PC's it merely captures the active screen or window.

Maybe the button should be "SrcnCptre" for "Screen Capture" which is what
that button does.

 

[Murray]

Really early. I don't ever recall it doing that, honestly, with any
Microsoft OS.

 

[Steve Easton]

Me either, starting with windows 95.

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[Murray]

Even in DOS days. Like DOS1....

 

[Mike Mueller]

As others have stated, the PrintScreen button only does a
screen capture in Windows. Alt-Printscreen also does a
capture, but only of the active window

Solutions:
1. Use MSPaint as previously suggested
2. There are printscreen programs (American Systems-Print
Screen Deluxe) which will automatically print the captured
image.

I cannot tell for sure from your post, but it looks like you
may only want text. You can do a CTRL-A (or use >Edit

Select All) and copy the actual text and paste that into

what ever text editor/word processor that you want



message
:I just want to know how I make the PRINT SCREEN button work
while I am using
: a tutorial that was made available through an email.
: I press PRINT SCREEN...nothing happens.
: I press ALT + PRINT SCREEN ... nothing happens.
: Can I use PRINT SCREEN in any program?

 

[Trevor L.]

Even in DOS days. Like DOS1....

Well, I remember it.

All I have to do now is to remember where I remember it from

My working experience from 1962 to 2003 would have covered many computers.

But who knows where or when ??
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Cheers,
Trevor L.
[ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
MVPS Website: http://trevorl.mvps.org/
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[Murray]

I think it worked in CP/M. 8)

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Murray
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MVP FrontPage

Even in DOS days. Like DOS1....

Well, I remember it.

All I have to do now is to remember where I remember it from
My working experience from 1962 to 2003 would have covered many computers.

But who knows where or when ??
--
Cheers,
Trevor L.
[ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
MVPS Website: http://trevorl.mvps.org/
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[Andrew Murray]

I never mentioned it was a *Microsoft* thing (the screen print actually
*printing* the screen); the PrntScrn button usually sent a screen dump to
printers - probably on unix or other OS networks.

 

[Andrew Murray]

I never said Print Screen was a *Windows* function.....merely the function
of the button at some time in history actually sent a screen dump to a
printer.