Printscreen Button

[chrissa1]

How do you make the "Printscreen" button work. I've used it once before but can't remember if you just have to press it.

I tried it this morning, but can't find the page I think I've printed. Where does it go? TIA.

[HowardKennitby]

You need to paste it into a Word document or similar and print that.

[chrissa1]

What? Highlight it, press the button and then paste it into a Word Document?

[rowanwitch]

ctrl plus pp brings up the printer then you should be able to print the page

[chelle7272]

No highlight - press button and open word doc and paste, or print as Rowan says

[gen2]

Pressing the PrtScrn button simply captures the current screen into the clipboard.

If you hold down the ALT key while you press PrtScrn then instead of the whole screen, it just copies the current/active window into the clipboard.

You will have to paste it from the clipboard in order to print it.

The reason the button is called PRINTscreen is historical and it has not done so for many years now.

[HowardKennitby]

^

Gen2

Thanks for that tip about <Alt> <PrtSc>. I had never heard of that.

[chrissa1]

Thanks all and gen2 for your comprehensive answer. I don't want to print it now though. I want to save the page of all my Direct Debits, so I can see when things are going out without having to log on to my account everytime.

Sorry it's taken so long to reply, but AB was playing up and wouldn't load the page on my laptop. Thanks again.

[Old_Geezer]

Once upon a time it used to do what it said 'on the can'. These days it only shoves it in the paste buffer for you to paste into something that can be printed.

[chrissa1]

I see OG, I didn't know that. However, mission accomplished so, all's well that ends well.

[wildwood]

chrissa1, just to confuse you even further, if you just want to save a statement of your bank or what you see on the screen in a browser, you can go to Edit/save page as...... and save it as a webpage, maybe on your desktop.(?)

[spotit3]

If you use it with Paint program you can just copy and print the relevant bits.