Taking screen shots (i.e. creating a graphic of the current contents of your screen) is a very useful feature. A commonly known but hidden feature in Windows XP is pressing the PrtScn key to capture the entire screen to the clipboard, allowing you to paste the screen shot into another program (such as Microsoft Word). If you wish to only capture a specific window, pressing ALT ? PrtScn will capture the currently active window to the clipboard. For those people using a Mac platform, there are similar hidden shortcuts for screen capturing. Pressing Command (Apple Key) ? Shift ? 3 will capture the entire screen and save to a file on the desktop, and pressing Command ? Shift ? 4 will turn the cursor into a crosshair allowing you to select the section of screen to capture to a file on the desktop. In addition to these shortcuts, you can also add the Control key to the beginning of the keystrokes (i.e. Control ? Command ? Shift ? 3 and Control ? Command ? Shift ? 4). This will capture the same screen area as the non-Control key version of the shortcut but, instead of saving the screen capture to a file, this will copy the capture to the clipboard, allowing the graphics to be pasted into another program.
