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Go back to my question Mac MacBook Pro User profile for user: MrHk MrHk Author User level: Level 1 70 points How to take a MAC screenshot and paste to word

Hello, quick tip (rather than a question) for those who need to take screenshots and paste directly clipboard - took me a while to figure this out (though is mentioned on Mac OS Support Site at bottom)

Q: How to take a Mac screenshot and paste directly to word from clipboard without savings as a PNG file on the desktop?

A: you need to use CONTROL button as well as other buttons to save straight to clipboard

Apple Support - Take a screenshot on your Mac

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5775

Taking Screen Shots

http://www.mactipsandtricks.com/tips/display.lasso?mactip=146

Capture a Screen shot entire screen

Take Screen shot as picture (PNG) file on Desktop:

PRESS: Command (⌘)-Shift-3.

The screenshot is added to your desktop (as PNG file)

Copt Screen to Clipboard (for pasting into other apps) – Use CONTROL

PRESS: Command (⌘)-Shift-CONTROL-3

To capture a window to the Clipboard (instead of a PNG desktop file):

Capture a specific window or art of your screen (Select the screen area)

PRESS: Command (⌘)-Shift- -4

Move the camera pointer over the window to highlight it, and then click mouse.

PRESS: Command (⌘)-Shift-CONTROL-4

Move the camera pointer over the window to highlight it, hold down CONTROL and then click mouse.

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)

Posted on Oct 10, 2014 12:58 AM

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User profile for user: spudnuty spudnuty User level: Level 5 7,128 points

Apr 18, 2015 4:52 PM in response to Oysterhaven

Depends on what you're on. If you're on the Chrome browser go up to the "Edit" drop down and select "Select All". Then click on"Copy" and the entire page that the browser is on will be selected and copied to the clipboard. Go to say, work select where you want it to go and select paste.

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User profile for user: clement52 clement52 User level: Level 1 8 points

Mar 3, 2015 10:45 PM in response to Swats26

It seems that you can only directly save the screenshots to desktop, saving to another folder on computer is impossible. Since I have tried that before but failed. Lucky me, I searched in Google and find some alternatives ways to take screenshot on Mac and save in any desired folder, such as Skitch, Monosnap and more. They all works fine on capturing image and making quick edits.

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User profile for user: JLFJLF JLFJLF User level: Level 1 6 points

Apr 2, 2015 12:33 PM in response to MrHk

There is a lot of good information on how to take a screen shot (and it works) BUT not on how to PASTE a screen shot. How do you paste a screen shot?

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User profile for user: seanm3333 seanm3333 User level: Level 1 0 points

Mar 4, 2015 1:33 AM in response to Swats26

To have screenshots save to another location, as with many things, you can utilize Mac's powerful Terminal application to change this function. If you start Spotlight search (the magnifying glass at the top right of the screen) you can type "terminal" (without the quotes) to launch the application.

You can type "defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /path/to/new/location" (again without the quotes)

Then type "killall SystemUIServer" to apply the changes. ( This simply restarts the UI with the new settings applied)

For example I changed my Mac to store screenshots in a folder in my pictures so my command looked like

"defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/username/Pictures/ScreenShots"

Command Explanation:

Defaults: is a program which handles user preferences in the Macintosh system.

write: is a command specific to the Defaults program which tells defaults to write the following changes to the specified application

com.apple.screencapture: is the package designation for Apple's screen shot application

/Users/username/Pictures/ScreenShots: is the path to the new location for the screen shot. Obviously you would replace "username" with your account name.

The terminal is a powerful tool baked into the Macintosh system. I would recommend taking a dive into google to see all the cool things you can do with your system through this application.

For more information see http://www.maclife.com/article/columns/terminal_101_changing_screenshot_capture_ location

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User profile for user: spudnuty spudnuty User level: Level 5 7,128 points

Apr 2, 2015 1:40 PM in response to JLFJLF

So I'm in Word 2011:

I open the screen shot and type "command - a" . The Mac selects the entire screen shot. I type "command - c" and the Mac copies the screenshot to the clipboard.

I go to Word open a document. Select where I want the picture/screenshot to go and type the paste paste command (command - v).

Alternately you can go to the "insert" drop down menu in Word and select picture from file. Find your screenshot on the desktop and click on it to select it and click the "open" button.

When I do it that way it helps to rename the screen shot. (Especially for me since I have 20 or so laying on my desktop.)

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User profile for user: Swats26 Swats26 User level: Level 1 0 points

Feb 12, 2015 5:49 AM in response to MrHk

Thanks for this. I took a screenshot using Command (⌘)-Shift-3. they are all getting saved on the desktop.. how do i make them save on another folder elsewhere on the computer? thanks so much!!

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User profile for user: Oysterhaven Oysterhaven User level: Level 1 4 points

Apr 18, 2015 4:03 PM in response to MrHk

If you want to take a screen capture that is bigger than the window, how do you drag the pointer down and make the window go down. I just seem to stop. Thanks

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User profile for user: Oysterhaven Oysterhaven User level: Level 1 4 points

Apr 18, 2015 5:26 PM in response to spudnuty

Perfect. Thanks !

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User profile for user: cta654 cta654 User level: Level 1 4 points

Dec 20, 2017 7:43 AM in response to MrHk

Super helpful! Thanks!

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