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24. Capturing Screenshots and Audio

Wallace Wang

(1)San Diego, California, USA

In the business world, many people give presentations using programs like Microsoft PowerPoint. Usually such presentations consist of text and graphics, but sometimes you might need to capture images off your screen. Windows 10 provides two simple keyboard strokes to capture a screenshot:

  • Print screen (PrtScr): Captures the entire screen

  • Alt+PrtScr: Captures the currently active window

With either method, Windows 10 stores the captured screenshot in memory on the Clipboard. To access the screenshot, you need to use the Paste command, such as Ctrl+V, to paste the screenshot ...

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