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572 Adding Screenshots of the Windows Desktop
Figure 2-14:
Inserting a Windows screenshot of an open Word 2013 program window into your worksheet.
If you have application windows open on the desktop, a thumbnail of each window appears on this Screenshot drop-down menu under the heading Available Screen Shots. To capture one of the open window’s information
as a graphic object in the current Excel worksheet, you simply click its thumbnail on this drop-down menu and Excel adds the window as a selected graphic in your sheet.
If you don’t want to capture any of the discrete application windows as graphics, you can use the Screen Clipping option that appears at the bottom of the Screenshot drop-down menu to select the section of the desktop to capture as a graphic. When you click the Screen Clipping option, Windows closes the Excel application window and displays the desktop with all of
its windows and icons displayed but in a gauzy, hazy transparent mode.
You then drag the black-cross pointer to select the section of the desktop you want captured as a worksheet graphic object. (As you drag, Windows removes the gauzy effect from the area you select.) When you release the mouse button, Windows immediately reopens the Excel program window with the section of the desktop added as a selected worksheet graphic.