You can use Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 to take a picture of all or part of your computer screen, and then insert it into your notes. These pictures, which are called screen clippings, let you quickly capture information that you don't need to edit. For example, you might take a picture of your business trip itinerary on your travel agency's Web site, and then paste it into your notes so you can view it when you don't have access to the Web.

You create screen clippings by dragging the pointer to select a rectangular area, which can range from a 25-pixel square to the entire height and width of your screen. Anything within the rectangular area is included in the image and is automatically added both to your notes and to the Clipboard. You can easily paste additional copies of the image onto other pages in your OneNote notebook or into another program.

To insert a screen clipping, do the following:

1. Open the program that displays the information that you want to capture as a picture (for example, a Web page in Windows Internet Explorer).
2. In OneNote, on the Insert menu, click Screen Clipping.

   OneNote is minimized, and the last active window becomes visible.

3. Click and hold the mouse button, and then drag the pointer in any direction to make a selection. For example, you can start from the upper left corner of the area that you want to capture, and then drag the pointer to the lower right.
4. Release the mouse button to create the screen clipping and insert it into your notes.

    Tip   Whenever you create a screen clipping, a copy of the picture that is pasted into OneNote is automatically copied to the Clipboard. To insert the picture into any another program, click Paste or press CTRL+V wherever you want to insert the picture.

 Note   Screen clippings are static images. When you take a screen clipping of something (for example, a Web page), and the information changes at the source, the screen clipping is not updated.