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The following tip, by Neil J. Rubenking is a true gem.

Mark 

SAVE SCREEN GRABS THE RIGHT WAY
by Neil J. Rubenking

A lot of people know that pressing the PrintScreen/PrtSc key puts an image of the entire desktop into the clipboard, and pressing Alt along with that key takes a screenshot of the active application. But a significant portion of that group doesn’t know what to do next. I can tell by the number of screenshots I receive in the form of Word documents. Don’t paste your screenshots into Word! The resulting file is way bigger than it needs to be.

Instead, launch the Paint applet from the Accessories menu and paste the image into Paint. Now save it in a compressed image format to save space. The Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format is a great choice because it compresses the image without losing any detail. Next best is JPG, which loses some detail during the compression process. Just don’t save as a BMP file. A BMP screenshot of a 1,280 by 1,024 desktop always takes 3.75MB of disk space. The file size of that same screenshot as a PNG image will vary, but it can be closer to 100KB.

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