Screenshots
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Understand how to insert a screenshot to your presentations
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If you want to add a screenshot to your presentation, there are a number of things you can do. One way involves inserting the screenshot via the Insert menu. So that's Alt + N. Sorry, Alt + N, SC for screenshot, and then just select whichever active screens that you want to paste. So I've got another PowerPoint here, I've also got a Word document that's open as well. So I'm gonna select the Word document this time. And what happens is, whatever you select, it just paste the entire image onto your slide. And then it's there for you to either resize or resize and crop accordingly. Okay, so let's say I wanted to... I don't know. I've resized this one. I'm gonna crop a bit of it as well. I'm gonna get rid of the ribbon menu at the top. I'm just gonna identify the document with a bit of a border. Okay, so there's my little example of a Word document. Very quick and dirty, obviously. There we go. So there's my little screenshot example. That's one way of doing it. Another thing you can do is you can use print screen. Now print screen is useful, if you're wanting to show some of the other menus that are available. So let's say, I've got my Word document open here again and I want to isolate, I wanna take a picture of that. But I want to show some of these other menus. I want to see the letters associated with each menu on the ribbon. So if I do press the Alt key now and now I press PrtSc, okay? That means I've taken a picture of all those menu shortcut keys also. Right, so if I go back to my PowerPoint now and do Ctrl + V, fantastic. So one thing you'll notice is there's actually two images here. The image at the back is actually of my second screen where I have open the accompanying PowerPoint slides that you can download as part of this video series, okay? I don't want that though. So obviously I'm gonna have to crop that out. So that's easy. Picture Format, Crop. And I can bring that down to that. There we go. And I'm going to just scroll down. And this time, I'm gonna get rid of part of the screen 'cause what I want to be able to see is the ribbon menu. So all I wanted to be able to see is the ribbon menu and some of those shortcut keys. So there we go. I'll click outside of the box now and expand. You can now see some of those Word menus and the letters associated with them. There are other things you can do as well, you can use something called the Snipping Tool also. But there are two quick ways of adding screenshots to sort of enhance your presentations.