How to make and email a screenshot
Here are some instructions on how to take a screenshot:
- Prepare for the screenshot. Make sure that the window you want to
take a screenshot of is not obscured but other windows or dialog boxes,
also hide anything that might be personal, when you take the screenshot
everything on your screen will be captured.
- Press the ‘Print Screen’ key. You will probably find the ‘Print
Screen’ key just above the numeric pad or control keys. This will
capture a copy of your entire screen to the system ‘clipboard’ just
like when you highlight and copy some text.
- Open the ‘Paint’ program. You can open Paint by clicking on ‘Start
-> Programs -> Accessories -> Paint’. Instead of ‘Paint’ you
can use any other image editing program you are comfortable with.
- Paste the image into ‘Paint’. You can paste the image from the
clipboard by pressing the ‘Control’ and ‘v’ keys at the same time, or
by using the ‘Edit -> Paste’ menu option in ‘Paint’.
- Save the file in jpeg format. Now you can save the file in a
user-friendly format such as jpeg. This will reduce the size of the
file (do NOT save it in bitmap or .bmp format, these files are VERY
large), Just choose ‘File -> Save As…’ from the menu, browse to an
easy to find location ie the Desktop, give the file a name ie
‘my-settings.jpg’, select JPEG from the ‘Save as type’ drop down then
click the [Save] button.
  
- Open your email software, such as Microsoft Outlook. Create a new email in the usual way. Click the paperclip icon on the toolbar, or choose 'File' from the 'Insert' menu.
- Locate the screenshot (in this example we saved it on the Desktop as
‘my-settings.jpg’), highlight it by clicking once on it and then click the [Insert] button.
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