Q: I am preparing a presentation and would like to copy an image of a web page into a PowerPoint slide. What do you suggest?
A: The easiest way to do this is to take a screen capture of the web browser window. Windows users can do this using the Alt and PrintScreen buttons.
- Bring up the web site and resize the browser window as you want it.
- Be sure that the browser window is "active" by clicking the title bar.
- Hold down the "Alt" key and tap the "Print Screen" key. This copies the content of your active window to the computer's memory.
- Within PowerPoint, it's best to continue with a blank slide.
- From the Edit menu, select Paste to paste the picture of the window onto a slide. You can then resize or alter this image as you would any picture in PowerPoint.
More info about capturing screen images is available for Windows users and for Macintosh users. More information about PowerPoint is available in our Technology Tools section.
