Just a quick post prompted by yet another person telling me that the ‘Print Screen’ button on the keyboard is not working.

The ‘Print Screen’ button is located just to the right of the Function buttons on a full sized keyboard (F1, F2 etc.) It has ‘Prt Scr’ written above ‘SysRq’. Now, you might reasonably assume that pressing this button would cause a snapshot of the screen to appear from your printer. But no! What actually happens is that a snapshot of the screen is saved on the ‘clipboard’.

After pressing the ‘Prt Scr’ button you simply have to paste the contents of the clipboard into another program, such as Word. So, ‘Prt Scr’ to capture an image of the screen, open the program you want to use and then paste into a new document (right click on mouse and select paste) - now you can print it out!

Tip: If you have several windows showing on the screen and you only want to print one of them - click in the window you require, hold down the ‘Alt’ button (bottom left of keyboard) and whilst holding down the ‘Alt’ button press ‘Prt Scr’. Only the window you require will be copied to the clipboard.