Marcus is live!

talexuser

You can then worry about how secure your onedrive is.

Fingerbobs

EachPenny wrote: »

As I go through the online application process for financial products I take a screenshot of important information and save that onto a USB stick. I could print the information onto a piece of paper... but have you seen the price of ink these days.

I do this too, but I typically delete the saved screenshots after the account is up and running.

It's annoying how few Web pages are 'print-friendly' these days, and so often using the 'print' option on a Web page just produces a complete dog's breakfast, even on pages that look perfect on-screen. Often the only way to get a readable output is to take a screenshot.

soulsaver

talexuser wrote: »

You can then worry about how secure your onedrive is.

I don't worry - when I get confirmation the account is processed I delete the screen dump.

Steve_xx

Fingerbobs wrote: »

I do this too, but I typically delete the saved screenshots after the account is up and running.

It's annoying how few Web pages are 'print-friendly' these days, and so often using the 'print' option on a Web page just produces a complete dog's breakfast, even on pages that look perfect on-screen. Often the only way to get a readable output is to take a screenshot.

There is another way to produce a snapshot of portions of webpages. even better, in my view, than the typical screenshot function. The method is to use Microsoft's Edge browser. Within it there is a super function for dragging a 'cut' function over an area in order to paste it into a document.

soulsaver

Steve_xx wrote: »

There is another way to produce a snapshot of portions of webpages. even better, in my view, than the typical screenshot function. The method is to use Microsoft's Edge browser. Within it there is a super function for dragging a 'cut' function over an area in order to paste it into a document.

But how you do it is a secret?

Steve_xx

soulsaver wrote: »

But how you do it is a secret?

No secret, but difficult to describe.

If you have Microsoft Edge browser:

1. Look to the top right of the browser, and you should see 4 symbols. The first is a star with three lines coming out of it, the second is a symbol that looks like a squiggle of the word 'On'.

2. If you click on the squiggle that looks like the word 'On' a bar appears with a set of symbols. These symbols are for highlighting, erasing etc. However, one of the symbols is a dotted square with a pair of scissors in it. It's this that you click on, and when you do click on it you will be able to drag over any area you want and when you release the mouse, whatever you have dragged over is copied. You then choose where to paste it, ie in Word, and hey presto, a perfect copy of whatever you dragged over appears there!

soulsaver

Steve_xx wrote: »

No secret, but difficult to describe.

If you have Microsoft Edge browser:

1. Look to the top right of the browser, and you should see 4 symbols. The first is a star with three lines coming out of it, the second is a symbol that looks like a squiggle of the word 'On'.

2. If you click on the squiggle that looks like the word 'On' a bar appears with a set of symbols. These symbols are for highlighting, erasing etc. However, one of the symbols is a dotted square with a pair of scissors in it. It's this that you click on, and when you do click on it you will be able to drag over any area you want and when you release the mouse, whatever you have dragged over is copied. You then choose where to paste it, ie in Word, and hey presto, a perfect copy of whatever you dragged over appears there!

Many thanks, a useful addendum to my (little) box of tricks..

julicorn

If you want to be able to do this without having to resort to using Edge, then Windows has a handy little program pre-installed which is called 'snipping tool' which does exactly this (but also let's you edit the screenshot a bit if you want). I always use this instead of print screen.

isasmurf

julicorn wrote: »

If you want to be able to do this without having to resort to using Edge, then Windows has a handy little program pre-installed which is called 'snipping tool' which does exactly this (but also let's you edit the screenshot a bit if you want). I always use this instead of print screen.

The snipping tool is being retired. A new tool willl be included in the Win10 update being rolled out this month and the snipping tool will be removed in a future update.

DennisTenus

isasmurf wrote: »

The snipping tool is being retired. A new tool willl be included in the Win10 update being rolled out this month and the snipping tool will be removed in a future update.

Really? Great. Good old MS always changing good things for no reason. What's it being replaced with? Where did you hear about this?