Have you ever wanted to make a "snapshot" of your screen? You can,
but you do need to have imaging software installed on your
computer, or a good word processor. Here is how to do this:

1. First, you need to capture the entire screen. Do so by hitting
the Print Screen button on your computer's keyboard. It is located
just to the right of the F12 key.

2. Next, you need to open your imaging software. Depending on
your software, you may also need to open a blank page. Now, select
your "Paste" command. To select "Paste", you can use either the
right click method which will bring up a small menu with the "paste"
option, or you can use the keyboard command of holding down, at the
same time, CONTROL- V. You should now see the image of your
computer screen on the document you are working on. If you do not
have imaging software, you can paste it into your MS Word or WordPerfect).

If you would like to capture only the current window, hold down
the ALT button while you press the Print Screen button. This captures
only that one window--instead of the entire desktop--to the clipboard.
Then paste the window into a Windows-based program such as WordPad.

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Printing Web Pages (on MS Internet Explorer)

Have you ever really wanted the information from a web page
printed out, but hesitate because you know you are going to
get the header, footer and all the other "stuff" on the web page?
You can, of course, copy and paste only the material you want
into Wordpad, Notepad or any word processing software, but
there is another way - and it's rather fun!

1. Click the File menu, Page Setup

2. Find the "Headers & Footers" area and remove all the extra
odd looking "stuff" in the respective fields. Hit OK and you are
rid of that part of the web page.

3. Okay, we've gotten rid of the header and footer mess completely.
Perhaps you have decided you do want some of it, but not all of
it. Here is how to manage this situation:
Use the following parameters below in the header and footer fields
&w Window title

&u Page address (URL)

&d Date in short format (as specified by Regional Settings in Control
Panel)

&D Date in long format (as specified by Regional Settings in Control
Panel)

&t Time in the format specified by Regional Settings in Control Panel

&T Time in 24-hour format

&p Current page number

&P Total number of pages

&& A single ampersand (&)

&b The text immediately following these characters as centered.

&b&b The text immediately following the first "&b" as centered, and
the text following the second "&b" as right-justified.

For example, if you want the header to have the window (page) title
and the URL, you would type:

&w &u

If you wanted to make it so it says you are the one that printed it,
you could put something like:

&w &u Printed by Jeni on &d

Please note, however, you need to keep an eye on the spacing. To
get a single space between items (like &w&u) you need to hit the
space bar twice. Experiment and you'll get it. Have fun!

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