Print Screen F10

[Krysta Cirilo]

Capturinga snapshot of your computer screen is called a screenshot or screen capture. Once captured, the screenshot is automatically copied to your clipboard in Windows. Windows uses the Print Screen key, either alone or with another key, to capture one of the following:

You can then paste the screenshot into a document, email message, file, or image editor (Paint, for example). Alternately, you can insert the screenshot as an image into a document, email message, another file, or image editor.

On laptop keyboards, the Print Screen key is typically located on the Function Key row. Press the Fn key together with the associated Function key (usually F10) initiates the screenshot.

Laptops with capacitive (illuminated) Function Key rows should press the Fn key to toggle between the functions of the keys to locate the Print Screen key. Once illuminated, press the PrntScrn key along with any of the options below to capture the relevant screenshot. Refer to your product's user guide for more information.

Once you have captured the wanted screen or window using the Print Screen key, you must take additional steps to retain the screenshot. Paste the captured image into an image editor such as Microsoft Paint or Photoshop to edit or save it. Open the appropriate application and use the Ctrl + V key combination to paste the image into a new image document.

I've used prtsc to capture my screenshots for like years now but for some reason dropbox doesn't recognize it anymore. The settings in dropbox are correct and its not a hardware problem b/c I can still press prtsc and then ctrl+v into paint.

Edit: Yeap, OneDrive working perfectly...

Edit no 2: The "solution" that worked for me was this. I disabled the function in the DropBox preferences and then I enabled the same function in the OneDrive settings. As I mentioned, OneDrive worked perfectly. But then I followed the opposite steps (disabling the function in the OneDrive preferences and then enabling the same function in the DropBox settings) and the DropBox fuction started working again!

This problem just started happening for me. I can CTRL-V into paint or word, but nothing is saved by Dropbox. The appropriate box is checked in preferences. I have tried unchecking it, rebooting, and then checking it again but that had no effect.

After many months of printing screens directly to my DB Screenshots folder I received notification from Dropbox to re-install Dropbox (perhaps because I recently upgraded to Windows 10). I did so but now the Prt Sc (print screen) is captured and available in the clipboard but nothing goes to my DB Screen Shots folder. Also, tried CTRL Prtsc with same results.

I used screenshot shortcut for two years regularly on 5 different PC's. They are now all running W10 since some months but in October or so suddenly the option to use the same feature but to OneDrive popped up. I clicked it away since I'm happy with the DB function and have a special folder of the screenshots.

I didn't know there was a way to take screenshots with WINDOWS + Volume Down. On my keyboard, I took a screenshot with WINDOWS + "Print Screen." If your laptop, press two buttons simultaneously: "Print Screen" and "Fn." If you want to take a screenshot of only the active window (program), press "Alt" and "Print. Screen" on the computer; "Alt," "Print Screen," and "Fn" on the laptop. The screenshot will be saved to the clipboard. And on Chrome, I put myself on a printscreen chrome extension app. It's a great extension. It has Captured individual web elements and even created Gifs.

I know it is an old topic, but can anyone confirm that I actually can print to other target sizes than DINA4 & Letter? I am trying to print to a label printer (2.5 x 3.5 inch) without any success and the official documentation sounds like only DINA4 / Letter size printing is supported.

Thanks a lot

I am trying to submit proof that I updated my profile and worked on my announcement section under my Profile in Canvas to submit the assignment and I can't seem to get the Print Screen button to work to copy what I did on that screen. What can I do? Thanks for your help @ Amy Sharp

The PRT SC (also sometimes Prt Scn) button alone does not show you anything on screen. It does, however, allow you to take a screen shot of the screen that you are currently looking at. You need to do a little bit more work on your end in order to fully utilize that keyboard button, though. After you have tapped on PRT SC, you'll need to open a simple graphics editing program on your computer. If you are on a Windows 10 machine, you could open up your Paint program, for example. Once in that program, use the keyboard combination Ctrl+V to paste the image in your Paint program. You can then use some of the editing tools to crop the image to your liking, or you can just save the file "as is" using a *.jpg, *.gif, or *.png file extension. Here's a video I found on YouTube that does a much better job of explaining it than I did...

if you click on the RDC menu at top of screen on OSX, click on preferences, then keyboard, you should have a Mac shortcut of option f4 (default) i actually remapped mine to option 1 (as i couldn't get option f4 to work on the standard bluetooth keyboard, but obviously you can map to whatever you like

You may find that your RDS admin has provided a separate snipping tool to provide this function - my session certainly has this. Checking the app, it seems to be part of the Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard server release.

If you have the Send to OneNote tool (part of MS Office) running on your remote Windows machine, then an easy solution is to hit COMMAND+S, select the region you would like to copy and subsequently click Copy to Clipboard.

I will add my voice to the growing voices asking for this feature. The ability to be able to "print screen" directly from my Esri Dashboards has become one of the main asks in my organization for record keeping and decision making purposes.

Your users know that basically every OS comes with a good screenshot tool nowadays, right? The built-in "print" tools tend to be pretty poor, too, as they try to shoehorn everything into a 8.5 x 11 page with margins. I haven't seen a built-in print tool that does better than just screenshotting it myself.

@jcarlson Well yes, we can all use the "snip" tool, but that is not very quick or easy to do while you are briefing decision makers. Since there have been posts on this topic that I have found as far back as 2013 I thought it was safe to keep pushing Esri to perhaps listen to their users.

The "print" widget that was finally added to Experience Builder recently doesn't give me much hope for a good, functional solution. It may be faster to just figure out a custom solution that meets your particular users' needs.

We have a few datasets that some users routinely need in specific, printable formats, so we just use a custom Python script that is triggered by an API call they make when they click on a "generate report" button. Takes time to develop, but not as much time as you'll end up waiting on an official tool.

I've tried a lot of combination with the Ctrl, Alt, Shift and Print Screen keys, but no luck, nothing happens in response. One option: Shift+Ctrl+Print Screen lets me do a selection using a cross hair to size out the screen capture but I don't know where this gets saved. I'm not being given the choice and it's not in Desktop or Pictures.

Update: I rebooted and it "fixed" it - for now. However this is not the first time I've seen this so I'm still curious as to why it happens, what I can do to fix w/o reboot and if other share the same problem.

I'm not sure if Ubuntu 12 has a similar settings tools. Pull up System Settings and look at your Keyboard settings. Shortcuts contain many keys that your system may be expect you to use. Make sure you don't have a conflict with another keyboard shortcut and check that your screenshot shortcut is what you are expecting to use. I've disabled the general ALT key for dashboard that might interfere.

I don't have a fix for this issue, but I could suggest another option: use Shutter .It's a pretty advanced screenshot application that lets you do a lot more than just take screenshots - including choosing where to save them.

My 'answer' to this, at least for now was to look for the app itself. So I went to dash home (top left icon with circle) and looked for the 'Screenshot' app then when I saw it I dragged it to my unity icons on the left and now it's simply available as an app and I get the options of capturing just the window, etc. when I use it.

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