print screen keyboard shortcut

Hello Earthworm Jim,

Welcome to Apple Discussions!

If you are wanting to actually print the window of app to printer, then command+P.

If you are trying to get a screen shot, then here are a few hints.

The result of the following will be a PNG on the desktop, unless you change the default locations and file type.

1. To capture entire screen:

CmdShift3

2. To get a screen shot of just a selected area:

*Cmd Shift4 then highlight wanted area with mouse*.

3. To copy to the clipboard so you can paste into a document: (this is probably the one you are wanting)

CtrlCommandShift-3(or4)

Also you can use the GRAB app in Utilities, which will also capture the mouse pointer and save as TIFF.

Message was edited by: iyacyas

This I'm not sure about, you might be better off reposting this in the Windows Compatibility category of the forum.

http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=687

you can also do Command, + Shift + 4...then hit the spacebar. That let's you take a picture of an entire window (without worrying about cropping)