For agents, it can be a cool tool to use in your listing presentations to a consumer. A screenshot of what their listing looks like on a particular website, a screenshot of your Facebook Fan Page (with their listing posted as your latest update), or anything - anything you want to capture.
Taking a screenshot is easy ... take a moment to look down at your keyboard. Go ahead. Look for a key that says something along the lines of Prnt Scrn or Prt Scn. I'll wait ...
Typically, your "print screen" is an F-key ... look top-right~ish.
Find it? Okay good, now, use it. Is it a "function key"? Meaning I have to press my Fn (usually lower left) to make it work? If the wording on the key is in a different color and that color (usually blue) matches your Fn key ... then you need to use both for a screenshot.
Ok ... so we take our screenshot ............... then what? Here is when you say to me, but Stef, nothing happened???!!!
When you take a screenshot you are "copying" your screen. Now, in order to see it - you have to paste it somewhere. Open Word or PowerPoint and paste. Your screenshot is now a .jpg within your Word or PowerPoint document. You can treat it just as you would any other photo.
So to the point of this blog post ... I LOVE PowerPoint 2010. Why? One reason. The insert screenshot and the screen clipping option. When I need to capture something on my screen, as long as I have that screen open. I simply go to Menu > Insert > Screenshot ... all of my open windows will show up in a little drop-down as thumbnails. I select the thumbnail I want to insert and whammo! It's in!!! Or... even better ... I can select "screen clipping" just underneath all of the thumbnails and PowerPoint 2010 takes me out to my active window ... from here, I have clipping tool. I can select what I want of that active window and poof! Easy peasy - it's in :)
How great is that?!
By the way, if you don't have this latest version of Microsoft Office - get it here.
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