Many lack a release understanding of the clipboard function built into Windows(tm) operating systems. Basically, the clipboard is a temporary storage space area anywhere you can save and retrieve data.
The as a rule well-known case in point would be once you drag the pointer across text to highlight it, next right-click/copy or right-click/cut. The highlighted text is saved into the clipboard awaiting more work. Place the pointer in a recent location, right-click/paste, and the text appears in the recent location.
Generally the clipboard holds no more than lone thing by a generation, and so as to thing will stay behind replaced. The clipboard is straightforward, machinery with slightly text-based appliance (including snare pages) and is definitely accessible once you need it.
Images can and be placed in the clipboard, but so as to requires more production. Press the PrintScreen button on your the ivories and a pixel-by-pixel image of your current screen will unthinkingly dump into the clipboard.
You can right-click paste this image into credentials which can receive graphical input, such as Microsoft Paint(tm) or even Microsoft Word, but this function machinery no more than used for the whole screen put on view.
If you like to grab no more than a portion of the screen, as a rule mortals contain to paste the screen shot into a graphics software such as Paint(tm) or Adobe Photoshop ™, next crop the image to eager it used for work. That is an case in point of inefficiency Poingo abhors.
Now, those who like enhancing their credentials with images contain a recent tool which machinery with the same always-available simplicity of the clipboard. It is called Lightning Navigator, and it is lone of the applications which comprise the Poingo Productivity Suite (
Lightning Navigator runs constantly in the background. You no more than know it is nearby by noticing the little lightning bolt icon in the “system tray”, the little row of icons regularly located by the cut birthright corner of your screen.
With Lightning Navigator running, simply click Control+Alt+Print Screen by the same generation used for on-the-fly screen capture. When you prepare this, you will envision a crosshair pointer. Left-click/drag it across the screen area you like to grab. When you issue the mouse button, the image will load into the clipboard and you will envision a short-lived confirmation message.
Now you can right-click paste so as to image absolutely into your record and impress your co-workers and acquaintances with not no more than the quality and clarity of your record, but and with the break the speed limit with which you produced it.
You will and notice a refreshing difference in your production process, as you grab and paste images into your credentials with the improve previously held in reserve used for text.
By the way, almost all of the cropped screenshots in both websites mentioned on top of were grabbed using the Control+Alt+PrintScreen function of Lightning Navigator.
