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Screenshot
Have you ever wanted to take a “screenshot” –a snapshot of your computer screen– and place it within a section of your Microsoft Word® document?  Now you can do it in 3 quick steps

1. Fig. 1

   Prepare your screen for the snapshot by getting whatever it is that you wish to take a picture or snapshot of into place.  For example, if you want to get a snapshot of a website, open up the website and maximize it on screen.  Whatever is on the screen at the time of the “screenshot” will be displayed into your document.
2. After you have the screen ready, hit the “Print Screen” button on your keyboard.  For desktop computers, this is directly above the “Insert” button.  The key likely doesn’t spell out the entire words, Print Screen, but may be called Prnt Scrn, Print Sc, Print Scrn, etc.
3. After hitting this key, you can now Paste the screenshot into Microsoft Word® or any other word processing software.  Simply go into your software and click the Edit menu at the top of the screen, and select Paste (see Fig. 1, or for faster maneuvering, simply hold down “Ctrl” while pressing “V”)

 
 “Yeah… but now the picture is too big!”

Fig. 2

Simply adjust the size of the picture by moving your mouse cursor to edge or corner of the picture from where you wish to resize it.  Then, once the cursor turns into the adjustment arrow (Fig. 2), drag the edge or corner of the image to the size desired.

“Can I isolate one section of my screenshot?”
This is very easy to do, and uses the same principle as resizing (mentioned above).  Simply click on the picture to select it, then click the “Crop”button, on the Picture toolbar¹ (Microsoft Office 2003 or earlier) or on the ­­­­Format tab under “Picture Tools” on the Ribbon².  Then, move the mouse cursor to the edge or corner of the image and drag it in towards the image to cut off a portion of it.  You can start to do this from one corner until you have adjusted it to your satisfaction, and then begin at the opposite corner, therefore isolating an individual square of the image.

¹ If you do not see the image toolbar, click View > Toolbars > Picture
² Note: the image must be selected first in order for the Format tab to appear on the Ribbon