Information Technology Reference
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Spacebar
are hit one after the other). A camera icon will appear at the
cursor, move the cursor to the window you want to save, and click to save it.
To modify each of these commands to save to the clipboard instead of to a
file, add an additional
Ctrl
key to each of the above key sequences. To save
the whole screen to the clipboard hit
Apple
+
Ctrl
+
Shift
+
3
. To save a screen
area to the clipboard, hit
Apple
+
Ctrl
+
Shift
+
4
, then drag the cross-hair
across the area to save. To save a menu, dialog or window to the clipboard,
hit
Apple
+
Ctrl
+
Shift
+
4
+
Spacebar
, and click on the window to save.
In Linux it varies by the desktop choice, but there is usually an application
available in the menu to save a screen shot to a file.
Including graphics in documents
Now that the graphics have been generated, we'll review how to insert them
into document and presentation applications.
Presentations
Presentations to an audience, either live or online, often take the form of a slide
show. The most commonly used software for this is
Microsoft Powerpoint
;
some others are
OpenOffice Impress
, and
Apple Keynote
. They all make it
very easy to create a computer-based slide show. Once in the application, the
user creates one or more slides, and selects the appearance from a template of
common types. Powerpoint offers the following choices.
