"Print screen", the key John mentions copies the entire screen to the 
clipboard, "alt + print screen" copies just the open window.

-P

John Francis wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 12:58:04PM -0500, ann sanfedele wrote:
>> Next time I ask around for solutions I'll do a screen shot of what
>> it looks like (not that I know how to do that :) )
> 
> That's easy(-ish).  Somewhere on your keyboard is a key labelled
> "prt sc", or "prt scr", or something like that.  Pressing that key
> (and, probably, the shift key as well, if the "prt sc" key has two
> different labels on it) will grab a copy of the screen and put it
> on the clipboard.  Then simply fire up your favourite image editor
> and paste the contents in (very easy if your editor has a command
> "paste as new image", which most of them do).
> 
> Then just save the image (possibly after cropping it to just the
> Netscape window), and put it up somewhere folks can see it
> (you can't post attachments to the PDML).
> 
> [If you want just the Netscape window, pressing ALT-printscreen
> while the Netscape window is active copies only that window]
> 
> 


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