There are a fair number of pages out there that document the steps to get a screen shot for Windows transferred to the clipboard and then pasted into another application like Word or Microsoft Paint. But how about a way to get a screen capture directly to a BMP file for Windows without a separate utility? This can be done using Microsoft Picture Manager plus the print screen button.
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get screen set up with content to be captured
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use ‘print screen’ or ‘prt sc’ button to copy screen contents to clipboard
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open any picture in All Programs: Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office Tools: Microsoft Office Picture Manager. Can use one from \My Pictures\Sample Pictures\
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press ‘ctrl’ and v to paste the clipboard contents
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image will not show up in Picture Manager but instead the file ‘New Picture.bmp’ will apppear in the folder where the image opened in step 3 is located, for example \My Pictures\Sample Pictures\ if this is what you used in step 3.
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steps 1-5 can be repeated and then new files ‘New Picture(1).bmp’, ‘New Picture(2).bmp’ and so on will be created.
