Taking Screen Captures Using Floating Tools

You can use the Area Capture, Full Screen Capture or Freehand Capture tools in the Floating Tools toolbar to take a screen capture and automatically insert it on a page in a .notebook file.

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The Area Capture, Full Screen Capture and Freehand Capture buttons aren't included in the default Floating Tools toolbar. However, you can customise the Floating Tools toolbar by adding and removing tools.

You can also take screen captures using the Screen Capture toolbar.

To take a screen capture of an area using Floating Tools

  1. Press Area Capture FTCaptureArea.pngin the Floating Tools toolbar.

The pointer changes to cross hairs.

  1. Press and drag the cross hairs on the screen to define the area that you want to capture.

An image of this area appears on a page.

To take a screen capture of the entire screen using Floating Tools

Press Full Screen Capture FTCaptureScreen.pngin the Floating Tools toolbar.

An image of this screen appears on a page.

To take a screen capture of a freehand area using Floating Tools

  1. Press Freehand Capture FTCaptureFreehand.pngin the Floating Tools toolbar.

The pointer changes to cross hairs.

  1. Press and drag the cross hairs on the screen to define the area that you want to capture.

An image of this area appears on a page.