How to take a screen capture and paste it into powerpoint

[KingTobo100]

What if I don't have a print screen butten? Although, under insert is prt sc which I thought was it but pressing it did nothing. I have a picture of a lock on F6, which I assumed was the lock, but doing that did not work! Is there any other way it do it? (Yes, I'm using a labtop)

[papingo8]

Thanks for educating us.

Like you, i was doing picture cropping in Paint, before pasting to Powerpoint, until i realised Powerpoint has a cropping tool too (in my version Office XP at least).

Just right-click on pasted picture in Powerpoint and select "Show Picture Toolbar". In the picture toolbar, the cropping tool is the button that looks like barb wire. To crop, just move the corner handles appearing in the pic after you click that button.

This will save the Paint step.