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Many times when libraries report weirdness in NExpress or problems, it can be difficult for us to replicate the issue or see what’s going on, just based on a verbal or written explanation. A screenshot of what you’re seeing on the screen really does speak a thousand words.

Yet, I think we’ve wrongly assumed for a long time that most people knew how to take a screenshot. Our apologies for that assumption. Here’s some quick and easy instructions for taking a screenshot on your computer, and how to send the screenshot to us.

1. On your PC keyboard, there is a key that says Prnt Scrn or PrintScreen; it’s usually above the Home/Page Up/Page Down keys or the keypad. On laptops, the key will say the same thing, and is usually on the same row as the Function keys. This key is the one you will be using to take a screen shot.
2. When you find something you want to take a screenshot of, hit the PrntScrn key.
3. Open up Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Word Processing or WordPad — basically any type of word processing program; Microsoft Paint also works for this. However, don’t use NotePad for this.
4. Once you have a new document open, go to the Edit menu, and select Paste. The screen image you captured above should appear in the document. Add more screenshots if applicable. If you want to add any text to explain more about what’s on the screen feel free to.
5. Save the document and email it to nexpresshelp@nekls.org as an attachment.

Other options:

• use the key combination of Alt+PrntScrn to capture just the open window.
• Take a look at this 23 Things Kansas Lesson written by Sharon Moreland to learn about even more options for screen capturing, including taking videos of your screen; microphone is optional.