Now you know how to get WINCOPY and have gotten your official copy (or at least your trial copy).  It's time to learn to use it. Obviously, you can make it an ICON on your desk top or you can get to it from START.  Here's how you would get it by using START:

As you see above, I went to START, scrolled up to PROGRAMs, and then Clicked on WINCOPY.  But.. the bigger question is, "How did she get that image as a captured screen".  I used WINCOPY!

Wincopy will show along the bottom of your screen; there will be the Wincopy icon along the bottom. It just sits there until you need to "snap" (capture) something.  Let's say you are surfing along through the Internet and you see a great quote, a photo, a screen of some kind that you want to keep. You click on WINCOPY.  It will come up in the upper left top of your screen as a dialog box. It will ask you if you want to capture a portion of a screen or the whole screen.

Here's a tip:  See the DELAYED ACTION? Click on that sometime and you will see how you can delay the time of the "snap".  This is important when you are going through several steps, such as you see in the first WINCOPY shown in this lesson (the one beginning at START).  As you get better at this, you will understand the DELAYED ACTION feature. For now... don't worry about it. Just notice it!

If you select to capture a screen section (portion of the screen), then it will have cross-hairs  to indicate the upper left corner of the image to be captured.  You draw down and to the right.  It will enclose the portion of the screen you wish to capture. When you release the mouse button, that's the portion that you have captured.

Doing the whole screen capture is obvious; it "snaps" the whole screen.

In both cases, then you are asked if you want to save the file.  You do "save as" and get the following dialog box.
In the example below, I named the image WINCOPY2.  The first one in this lesson was WINCOPY1. Below you see that I saved the captured image as WINCOPY 2 under my directory 600_fall_99. You notice that the file type is .gif. That's what you want. Don't change that.
 

THEN.... when you have saved your images, you are ready to use them in printed documents, tutorials like this one, .html pages, or sent in emails!
 

SOME TIPS when doing WINCOPY  When you save your WINCOPY files, give them some name associated with the site. For example, if you are “capturing” screens from the Smithsonian , you might consider something like SMN.  Another tip on this activity (from Dr. Price!) Number your slides in the order you want to show them. In the example of the Smithsonian, you would have SMN01.gif or SMN001.gif.   This makes your product so much easier to put together.You just go right down the list of files dropping them into your tutorial, course, story or whatever.. Be sure that you have the "Wincopied" images in the same directory with your .html file. In other words, if you are inserting them into a course or tutorial, you want to have them in the same directory with the rest of that page.  Otherwise, they won't show up when you view the product.