When saving your screenshot automatically, your Mac uses the name ”Screen Shot date at time.png”. To cancel taking a screenshot, press the Esc (Escape) key before clicking to capture. To store the screenshot in the Clipboard instead of saving it to the desktop, you can press and hold the Control key while you click to capture.
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Thankfully, Apple accounted for this issue by mapping the traditional Windows Print Screen key to a keyboard shortcut. With the default Apple keyboard found on the or the, you can use the following shortcut combinations to capture Windows screenshots to the clipboard: Capture the Entire Screen: Function + Shift + F11 Capture Only the Active Window: Function + Shift + Option + F11 Note that unlike, these key combinations don’t place an image file somewhere on your computer. Instead, just as in Windows natively, the captured screen or window is copied to your Windows clipboard, where you can paste it into a new document via an image editing application like. Also note that there’s no audible or visual confirmation when you take a screenshot in Windows. You just need to press the desired shortcut combination, open an image editing application, and then use the paste function via your keyboard or the application’s menu in order to confirm that your screenshot was taken as intended.
If you’re using a third party keyboard with your Boot Camp Windows installation, things can get a little bit trickier. Some cross-platform keyboards have a Print Screen key already. Others use the F14 key as Print Screen. Still others technically have a “function” key but don’t label it as such, instead opting for descriptions such as “Alt” or using a special graphic. The good news is that we have yet to encounter a keyboard that can’t get Apple’s Print Screen key mapping working on a Mac. It may take a little bit of experimentation, but you should be able to use the default key combinations as a guide with which to test various shortcuts until you discover the correct keys for your particular Mac Boot Camp setup.
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