Print a screen shot in Excel?

Teacher1 wrote:
> Can I print a screen shot in Excel?

Yes - screen shots are not a function of Excel, but rather of your
operating system. With XP if you hit "Print Screen" it sends a screen
shot to your clip board. From there you can paste it into Paint or
something and print it. Somewhat cumbersome.

On my machine I've installed a free app called PrintKey 2000 that sends
a screen shot just of the open window to itself from where you can
directly print it, save it to disk, etc. Much nicer than how XP treats
print screens out of the box.

Good luck...

Bill

Just for interest, as Bill points out, the PrtScn key will copy the whole
screen to the clipboard so it can be pasted in most programs, Alt+PrtScn
will copy the activewindow only, (Great for dialogs, etc)

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Nick Hodge
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"Bill Martin -- (Remove NOSPAM from address)" <wylie@earthNOSPAMlink.net>
wrote in message news:%23PUMGMZ%23EHA.2788@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Teacher1 wrote:
>> Can I print a screen shot in Excel?
>
> Yes - screen shots are not a function of Excel, but rather of your
> operating system. With XP if you hit "Print Screen" it sends a screen
> shot to your clip board. From there you can paste it into Paint or
> something and print it. Somewhat cumbersome.
>
> On my machine I've installed a free app called PrintKey 2000 that sends a
> screen shot just of the open window to itself from where you can directly
> print it, save it to disk, etc. Much nicer than how XP treats print
> screens out of the box.
>
> Good luck...
>
> Bill

Great -- just what I wanted. How do I access the clip board to retrieve the
screen shot?

"Bill Martin -- (Remove NOSPAM from addre" wrote:

> Teacher1 wrote:
> > Can I print a screen shot in Excel?
>
> Yes - screen shots are not a function of Excel, but rather of your
> operating system. With XP if you hit "Print Screen" it sends a screen
> shot to your clip board. From there you can paste it into Paint or
> something and print it. Somewhat cumbersome.
>
> On my machine I've installed a free app called PrintKey 2000 that sends
> a screen shot just of the open window to itself from where you can
> directly print it, save it to disk, etc. Much nicer than how XP treats
> print screens out of the box.
>
> Good luck...
>
> Bill
>

Just Paste into the graphics program.


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com


"Teacher1" <Teacher1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Great -- just what I wanted. How do I access the clip board to
> retrieve the
> screen shot?
>
> "Bill Martin -- (Remove NOSPAM from addre" wrote:
>
>> Teacher1 wrote:
>> > Can I print a screen shot in Excel?
>>
>> Yes - screen shots are not a function of Excel, but rather of
>> your
>> operating system. With XP if you hit "Print Screen" it sends
>> a screen
>> shot to your clip board. From there you can paste it into
>> Paint or
>> something and print it. Somewhat cumbersome.
>>
>> On my machine I've installed a free app called PrintKey 2000
>> that sends
>> a screen shot just of the open window to itself from where you
>> can
>> directly print it, save it to disk, etc. Much nicer than how
>> XP treats
>> print screens out of the box.
>>
>> Good luck...
>>
>> Bill
>>