Print screen is a technique to capture the screen in image form and then use it in any program or even print that screen. If you are a person who is writing technical articles then you would have used this feature quite often. There are times when you need to have a screen shot of a particular window in your screen. In such cases you will need to use this feature.
Now coming to how to do it, you can see a special key in your keyboard for this purpose. Usually it will have ?Print Screen / Sys Rq? in it and it can be found in the top right of the keyboard. Its position varies with the type of layout of the keyboard you are using. Some people might think that when they press this key the screen would be sent to the printer, which is not the case. When you press this key the screen is captured and placed in the clipboard. It is just like using ?Ctrl C? for copying the screen. Then you have to open a image editing program or even Word and then paste it using ?Ctrl V?. When you use Print Screen key the whole screen is copied. If you need to copy only the active window then you can use ?Alt Print Screen?.
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