For Want of a Print Screen
Every now and then, a subtle difference between a real PC and a Mac running Windows appears, one that makes you wish the Mac had that feature. One of those is the missing Print Screen key. All PC’s have one. All Mac’s don’t.
This came to light as I found a new feature in Word 2007 I wanted to write about. I noticed that when I double-clicked on a word to select it, a small formatting bar would appear just above the word as I moved my mouse cursor up. Word 2003 doesn’t have this feature, and neither does Word 2004. I thought it was pretty cool, and I wanted to show it to you by linking to a picture of it.
That’s when I discovered I didn’t have a way of “taking” a picture of it at all.
When I get some time, I’ll prowl the web for some freeware or shareware application that will solve the problem. On a Mac, the application that does this is called “Grab” and you can usually find it in your Applications/Utilities folder. Grab lets you take a shot of a screen or a window. I’m sure there’s a small Windows app that will do the same.
In the meantime, for those of you interested in knowing about the “new” feature I was trying to “photograph” in Word 2007, go watch this video. Though it’ll cover the whole new GUI in Word, the “mini-toolbar” I’m talking about turns up at about 11:27 in the 13 minute (13:12) video. It’s worth taking the time to see.
This came to light as I found a new feature in Word 2007 I wanted to write about. I noticed that when I double-clicked on a word to select it, a small formatting bar would appear just above the word as I moved my mouse cursor up. Word 2003 doesn’t have this feature, and neither does Word 2004. I thought it was pretty cool, and I wanted to show it to you by linking to a picture of it.
That’s when I discovered I didn’t have a way of “taking” a picture of it at all.
When I get some time, I’ll prowl the web for some freeware or shareware application that will solve the problem. On a Mac, the application that does this is called “Grab” and you can usually find it in your Applications/Utilities folder. Grab lets you take a shot of a screen or a window. I’m sure there’s a small Windows app that will do the same.
In the meantime, for those of you interested in knowing about the “new” feature I was trying to “photograph” in Word 2007, go watch this video. Though it’ll cover the whole new GUI in Word, the “mini-toolbar” I’m talking about turns up at about 11:27 in the 13 minute (13:12) video. It’s worth taking the time to see.
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