How to take a 'Screen Shot' on your computer.

Introduction

A screen shot can be used to capture the state of your screen at any momemt for archiving Information or for illustations in commucation where you can then integrate this into a website or send/submit as an attachment.

How to:

1). To take a screen shot, you press the keys 'Ctrl + PrintScreen' on your keyboard, this copies the state of the screen at that instant.

2) Open your favorite editor e.g MS Word or email program and paste by: ('mouse right click and paste' or 'Ctrl +V').

3) Save the file and you can use this for your illustations.

Note: You need to practise this a number of times until you get it right.