You want to take a screenshot of something and not have to fix it when you’re finished.

Screenshots can be tricky if the window, dialog box, or application floats over the main screen. Instead of taking a screenshots of the entire window, you can automatically take only the most active window.

Here’s my favorite trick when taking Print Screens. Some people call these screenshots or screen dumps.

Tip: The print screen button (PrintScrn) is next to F12 on your keyboard.

1. To take a screenshot, press PrintScrn.

2. Open Word and Paste (Edit, Paste) the screenshot into your document.

This is fine if you’re capturing the entire screen.

But what do happens if you’re using an application, such as SAP, with multiple floating screens?

You don’t want to capture all these screens floating over each other. It looks terrible and too much work to fix in Paint.

So, how do you capture the active ‘floating’ screen only? Is there a quick way to avoid editing the entire screen?

Here’s the trick!

Hold down ALT and then press PrintScrn.

This captures the active screen only. This trick can save you many hours editing and tidying up images.

Related posts:

1. How To take Screenshots of Floating Windows
2. Using Paint to take Great Screenshots
3. Using Paint to take Great Screenshots

Microsoft have introduced a Mini Translator in Office 2010 that provides on-the-fly translation as you select a word or phrase and provides dictionary definitions of individual words.

How it works

1. Point to a word or selected phrase with your mouse, and the translation will display in a small window.
2. The Mini Translator also includes a Play button so you can hear an audio pronunciation of the word or phrase using a text-to-speech engine.
3. The Copy button lets you paste the translation into another document.
4. You can use the Mini Translator in Word, Outlook, OneNote and PowerPoint.

There is a nice tutorial and more screenshots over here:

http://blogs.technet.com/office_global_experience/archive/2009/07/31/using-the-new-mini-translator-in-office-2010.aspx

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1. Top 10 New Features in MS Office 2010
2. Microsoft Word 2010: How to open Word files online in Protected View
3. Microsoft Office 2010 – How OneNote will work with Shared Notebooks