how do I take a screenshot and save it as a jpeg so I can edit it

AS how you do it it works with MS PAINT, For Windows 98 to Windows 7,

PRINT THE DAMM SCREEN by pressing [PRTSCR],

Then in Windows, find MS PAINT OR Paintbruh in : "C:\Windows\system32" and make a  shortcut to the desktop when you see a paint brush and a pallette ICON.

Then OPEN it and EDIT-> PASTE. You then have it. IF you need to crop it. use IRFAN VIEW 3,97 or better Then you can Lasso it  and crop it from its EDIT Menu. It does a lot better job and can transform most files to JPG, BMP or ICO. Visa versa, It is a dead nose winner for me! It works with Windows 98 to 7 with no problems at all. AND get all of its latest plugins.

http://www.irfanview.com/

   ON its Menu Bar you PASTE what you captured from what your screen shows even if you cannot directly save it as from even the Flash Player! IF you want the last open Window  in which is highlighted, press [ALT + PRTSCR] and let Irfan View do a better job in editing it where MS PAINT cannot! It all depends upon your Photo editor program. Irfan View will also download from any Camera when set up as Windows Camera and Scan utility. It also can access any scanner once it is selected. I used to have Corel's Photo Shop 5 before I had Irfan view and they are almost identical until the CD shattered. That came with a HP Scanjet 5370 C professioonal scanner I still have and use to develop color 35 mm negatives in which requires its Transparency adaptor (A square light over the glass to shign through the negative and transform thorang negatives to it proper positive picture).

From Edmond

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But if you want to do it in VBA (with some help from here: http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/PrtSc.htm)

Option Explicit

Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib "user32" (ByVal bVk As Byte, ByVal _

    bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)

Private Const KEYEVENTF_KEYUP = &H2

Private Const VK_SNAPSHOT = &H2C

Private Const VK_MENU = &H12

Sub PrintScreen()

' To capture the whole screen:'    keybd_event VK_SNAPSHOT, 1, 0, 0

End Sub

Sub AltPrintScreen()

' To capture the active window'   

    keybd_event VK_MENU, 0, 0, 0

    keybd_event VK_SNAPSHOT, 0, 0, 0

    keybd_event VK_SNAPSHOT, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0

    keybd_event VK_MENU, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0

End Sub

Sub PrintScrnToJpeg()

    Dim sld As Slide

    Dim shp As Shape

    Call AltPrintScreen 'To print the active window

'    Call PrintScreen   'To print the whole screen

    ActiveWindow.Selection.Unselect

    ActiveWindow.View.Paste

    Set sld = ActiveWindow.View.Slide

    Set shp = sld.Shapes(sld.Shapes.Count)

    shp.Export "C:\Temp\Picture1.jpg", ppShapeFormatJPG

'    shp.Delete 'If you want to delete the screen shot from the ppt slideEnd Sub

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Rich

You could press the PNTSCRN key to copy and then paste into photoshop maybe?