Increasing the size of a print screen shot in MS office 2003

littleminx_2

Hello all,

I have made a print screen of one of my bank transactions online and saved it in office the usual way. Trouble is when I have printed it out it is barely readable, is it possible to adjust the size?

Not very clued up as very rarely have to use it.

Many thanks in advance

macman

You can enlarge the size, but that will worsen the resolution, if that is the reason it's unreadable. A screen grab will be only 72dpi, a printed copy ideally needs 300dpi to be properly legible.

googler

What does 'saving it in Office the usual way' entail?

I usually go Alt+PrtScrn, open paint, and paste it into there, saving as a JPG, BMP or TIF. What do you do?

I usually find these to be perfectly readable

EchoLocation

If it's a print screen via the PrtSc SysRq key you can just paste it straight into Word and then resize it as an image - you might want to change the layout to landscape and adjust the margins to help. Alternatively if you paste it into Excel it should retain it's original size, you can then just set the print area to match (and again change the layout to landscape). As has been mentioned though, the print out might not be the best quality.

littleminx_2

Many thanks for all your replies, all sorted!