The method described at the Noteworthy FAQ works, sort of, but the results are as described: "Looks Like SHIT."

The method described by George works, sort of, but a couple of additional steps are suggested. The two methods are pretty much the same, except one works from the main view and the other uses the Print Preview

When you do a screen capture, the capture is at screen resolution and pastes at 72 dpi. This is an extremely poor resolution for printing. You need to capture something that can be scaled down in size, keeping the same total number of pixels, so that the finished object is at 150 dpi or better to get decent printing results.

1. In Noteworthy, use the Zoom tool to enlarge your view (Zoom In) until the picture you want fills as much of the screen as possible.

2. Once the intended picture is as large as you can get it, use Alt-PrtScn to capture the picture to the clipboard.

3. Go to Word and Ctl-V (or Edit | Paste) to insert it in your Word document.

4. When you left click on what you inserted you should get a new toolbar. If it doesn't pop up, go to View | Toolbars and put a check by "Picture." You can leave the toolbar floating in the middle, or you can drag it to the top toolbar.

5. With the picture selected (you clicked on it) click on the "Crop" tool on the Picture Toolbar. The icon for the Crop tool looks like a pair of interlocking Xs (XX).

6. Put your cursor on an edge of the picture, click and hold the left mouse button, and drag the edge in to crop off anything extraneous to what you want.

7. Repeat the crop on the other three edges.

8. At this point you should have the picture you want, but hopefully it will be at least twice as big as you want. Click on the Paint Bucket icon on thePicture Toolbar (Format Picture). Click the "Size" tab. Make sure there's a check in the "Preserve Aspect Ratio" box, and use the Width or Height windows to resize your image.

8a. You can use the "Layout" tab on the Format Picture window to adjust the location of the picture and control how text wraps around it. Note that changes may not take effect until you close the Picture Format window.

9. When you click anywhere on the Word document where there isn't a picture, the Picture toolbar should disappear. Just click a picture to get it back.

If you have a decent graphics program, you can paste from the Clipboard directly to it instead of pasting to Word at step 3. Work the image over in the graphics program, save it, and Insert | Picture in Word when it's ready. You usually must have a blank "canvas" open in most graphics programs, so that you have somewhere to paste. Some programs have an "import from clipboard" command. Photoshop Elements has a File | New from clipboard command. The import and new from clipboard kind of command should create a new canvas of the right size and paste the image on it.

If you use the method given in the Noteworthy FAQ, the print preview puts a full page on screen, and the copy button or an Alt-PrtScn puts the whole page, at 72 dpi, into the clipboard. Assuming that what you want is a small part of the page, you'll have to crop a bunch off, and probably have to enlarge to get anything usable. Enlarging from 72 dpi to a useful print size will nearly always blow-out the picture, since you just don't have enough pixels to work with. Noteworthy also asks to save as .wmf file. Unless you are using Win98 or older, Microsoft recommends now that you forget about using the .wmf format.

If you zoom to as large as you can get in Noteworthy, and use Alt-PrtScn to capture what you see, you'll get the same total number of pixels, but a lot more of them will be within that part of the image you want. When you resize to a smaller picture, you can keep all of the pixels and just put them closer together – getting to the 150 dpi or better that you need for a decent print.

On Screen Capture:

Some Windows computers don't do anything if you use PrtScn alone. Most Windows computers will do the same thing as if you used the preferred key combination Ctl-PrtScn.

Ctl-PrtScn should capture the entire monitor display and put it in the Clipboard.

Alt-PrtScn should capture only the "active window," so in most cases you'll have less to crop off at the edges.

I'm not sure I understand how .pdf is being used by those who've mentioned it, but in general any .pdf should be made directly from a "finished" file and should be an end product. There are ways to use .pdf as an intermediate step between other formats, but they're not often as successful as other methods and aren't recommended very often by "the .pdf guys."

John