The Macintosh operating system has always made it easy to capture a screen shot. A screen shot is an image of your computer desktop or an active window. Here's a summary of all the keyboard shortcuts you can use to capture your screen in Mac OS X. Entire screen:. To c apture the entire screen, press Command-Shift-3.
The shortcuts in this topic refer to the US keyboard layout. Keys for other layouts might not correspond exactly to the keys on a US keyboard. Many of the shortcuts that use the Ctrl key on a Windows keyboard also work with the Control key in Office 2016 for Mac.
The screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop with the filename starting with “Picture” followed by a number, example Picture 1, Picture 2, and so on. To copy the entire screen, press Command-Control-Shift-3. The screen shot will be placed on your clipboard for you to paste into another program like PowerPoint, Word, Photoshop, etc. Portion of the screen:. To capture a portion of the screen, press Command-Shift-4. A cross-hair cursor will appear and you can click and drag to select the area you wish to capture.
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When you release the mouse button, the screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop following the same naming convention as explained on the first tip above. To copy a portion of the screen to the clipboard, press Command-Control-Shift-4. A cross-hair cursor will appear and you can click and drag to select the area you wish to capture. When you release the mouse button, you can paste the screen shot to another application. Specific application window:. To capture a specific application window, press and hold Command-Shift-4 then tap on the Spacebar.
The cursor will change to a camera, and you can move it around the screen. As you move the cursor over an application window, the window will be highlighted. The entire window does not need to be visible for you to capture it. When you have the cursor over a window you want to capture, just click the mouse button and the screen shot will be saved as a PNG file on your desktop.
To copy a specific application window, press and hold Command-Control-Shift-4 then tap on the Spacebar. The cursor will change to a camera, which you can move around the screen.
As you move the cursor over an application window, the window will be highlighted. The entire window does not need to be visible for you to capture it.
When you have the cursor over a window you want to capture, just click the mouse button and you can paste the screen shot into another application. Computing Tips and Techniques are brought to you by the Information Technology Group for the purpose of sharing a wide variety of technology tips with its clients. The collection of these tips are protected by intellectual property rights, such as copyright. All intellectual property rights belong to the manufacturer of the software product in question.
What can I do to use shortcut for adding an equation? You can change the shortcut to a different key combination. See below for instructions. How to Customize Keyboard Shortcuts in Word 2016. On the File tab, choose Options. You see the Word Options dialog box. Go to the Customize Ribbon category.
Click the Customize button (you can find it at the bottom of the dialog box next to the words “Keyboard Shortcuts”). You see the Customize Keyboard dialog box, as shown here.
In the Categories list, choose the category with the command to which you want to assign the keyboard shortcut. At the bottom of the list are the Macros, Fonts, Building Blocks, Styles, and Common Symbols categories. Choose the command name, macro, font, building block, style, or symbol name in the Commands list.
In the Press New Shortcut Key box, type the keyboard shortcut. Press the actual keys. For example, if the shortcut is Ctrl+8, press the Ctrl key and the 8 key — don’t type out C-t-r-l- +8. If you try to assign a shortcut that has already been assigned, the words “Currently assigned to” and a command name appear below the Current Keys box. You can override the preassigned keyboard assignment by entering a keyboard assignment of your own. If you want the keyboard shortcut changes you make to apply to the document you’re working on, not to all documents created with the template you’re working with, open the Save Changes In drop-down list and choose your document’s name. Click the Assign button.
When you finish assigning keyboard shortcuts, close the Customize Keyboard dialog box.