On second thought there are two more options:
1) While PowerPoint is running press the "
Print Screen" key; this
copies
the contents of the whole screen to the Windows clipboard. I don't know
what image format is used internally for storage, but paste it into a picture editor (Ctrl-V),
crop the screenshot to the picture of interest and save it in any format your editor supports.
If you have the
picture in a separate window you can use
AltGr+PrintScreen to copy
only the contents of that window (must be active, of course).
This works only for one screen, though.
BUT this key works for all screen content, of course, not only for Power Point pictures.
BTW: On a
laptop you might need to press other key shortcuts, i.e.
whole screen: Fn+PrintScreen
active window: Fn+Alt+PrintScreen;
this may vary on different laptops. Experiment or RTFM (Read The F©#‡ing Manual).
There's a very nice free utility called
M8 Free clipboard which gives you not
one clipboard pigeon-hole like Windows but 25 more. This is the best clipboard utility I know of.
It is easy to use and hides only a small screen area (you can minimize it, of course, but this is
awkward when you do much copying and pasting). Download from
m8software.com.
If you install it you can make 25 screenshots one after the other before you have to save your work.
M8software also offers
Spartan Lite (a free Clipboard utility as well) with 500
(yes! FIVE HUNDRED !) pigeon-holes, but this has a rather big window and hides more
of the screen. It has many more options than M8 Free clipboard, though.
2) There are numerous
screenshot utilities -- most of them free --
on the internet that let you make a copy of the whole screen (like PrintScreen).
Some also copy a screen
area you can select using the mouse. (Google for "Screenshot").
Most of the ones I've tried do only one shot at a time and none was, alas, able
to auto-scroll the window if the picture is too wide or high for the screen.
So you can only capture pictures that fit on the screen.
But you can do several shots of parts of the picture, then join the parts
in your picture editor. Sounds like a terrible hassle, but is really not difficult to do.
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Many picture editors have a screen capture function on board, so take a closer look
at the menu bar of your editor before installing another piece of crap software you might not need.
(Example: Paint Shop Pro 5's capture setup window)
Kraut
