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How to Take a Screenshot in Windows

Highlight the Appropriate Window
- If you want to take a screenshot of just OLE, make sure that window is currently selected.
Hold Alt and Press Print Screen
- This key combination captures a screenshot of just the currently-selected window.
- The "Print Screen" key is frequently abbreviated, especially on laptop keyboards, and may have a label like PrtSc.
- The "Print Screen" key will often require an additional key on laptops, like the "Function" (Fn) key.
Open a Photo Editing Program
Press Ctrl + V to Paste the Screenshot
- Microsoft Paint is perhaps the quickest and easiest to use. Open Paint, then press Ctrl + V to paste the screenshot into the window once it opens. If there is extra white space around the screenshot, you can press Ctrl + Shift + X to crop the photo.
Save the File
- You may want to give the screenshot a filename that relates to the the OLETS Test Case you are currently testing, for example, "OLETS-93 - Failure Screenshot."

How to Take a Screenshot in Mac OS X

Press Command + Shift + 4
Click and Drag
- Your mouse pointer will now appear as a crosshair icon. Click the mouse button at one corner of the area to be captured, drag the mouse diagonally across to the other corner, and release the button.
- Once you release the mouse button, the picture will be automatically saved to your desktop.
- The filename is automatically generated, and will either appear as "Picture" with a following number (e.g. Picture 1) or "Screen Shot" with a following date (e.g. Screen Shot - 2012-08-16). You may want to change it so that it relates to the OLETS Test Case you are currently testing, for example, "OLETS-93 - Test Failure Screenshot."

For detailed instructions on how to attach a file to a Jira issue, see the article How to Attach Files to Jira Issues.

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