Using Print Screen within WordPad

• Pressing the Print Screen key takes a picture of your screen and copies it to a special area of memory called the Windows Clipboard.  Press the Print Screen key now.  Nothing appears to have happened, but you now have a picture of the screen in the Clipboard.
  

• Press Ctrl+V which is the keyboard shortcut for pasting information from the Clipboard.  You should now see a picture displayed within your WordPad program.
  
  NOTE: Pressing the Print Screen key copies the entire screen contents to the Clipboard.  If you just want to copy the active window, then after selecting the active window, press the Alt key while pressing the Print Screen key.  Then release the Alt key.
  

• Click on the Save icon to save the data to disk. 
  
  
  
  A dialog box is displayed.  You will need to type in a file name, and then click on the Save button
  

• If you have time you might want to investigate the function of some of the other icons within the program.  You will find that if you point to an icon, and leave the pointer there for a short time, that a popup is displayed explaining the function of the icon.  An example of a popup is illustrated below.
  
  
  
  TIP: If you wish to format a portion of text with bold formatting you first need to select the portion of text.  To select text within a program such as WordPad, click at the start of the text you wish to select and after pressing down the Shift key click at the end of the portion of text you wish to select.
  

• Leave the program window open.