How to Create and Insert a Screen Shot into Word By pressing PRINT SCREEN button on your keyboard, you capture an image of your entire screen, also known as a "screen‐shot" or "screen‐capture", and it...

How to Create and Insert a Screen Shot into Word

By pressing PRINT SCREEN button on your keyboard, you capture an image of your entire screen, also known as a "screen‐shot" or "screen‐capture", and it is copied to the Clipboard in your computer's memory. You can then paste the image into a word document, or other file.

Copy the entire image on the screen
1. Open everything you want copy and position it the way you want 2. Press PRINT SCREEN 3. The text you see on your keyboard might be PrtSc, PrtScn, or PrntScrn The other text on the Print Screen key is usually SysRq 4. Paste (CTRL+V) the image into a Microsoft Office program or other application
Copy only the image of the active window The active window is the window that you are currently working in. Only one window can be active at a time.
1. Click the window that you want to copy 2. Press ALT+PRINT SCREEN 3. The text you see on your keyboard might be PrtSc, PrtScn, or PrntScrn The other text on the Print Screen key is usually SysRq 4. Paste (CTRL+V) the image into a Microsoft Office program or other application
Once you get the image or screen shot into your Microsoft Word or other application such as PowerPoint program, then you are able to edit the image by using the Format tab on the Picture Tools Contextual tab. From this tab, you can adjust the brightness or contrast; change the style; position the image within your document; and change the size or crop it.