The Mouse MethodĪlternatively, you can also copy and paste on Mac using the mouse or the trackpad.
Keyboard shortcuts are great if you do a lot of typing because they allow you to keep your hands on the keyboard. To use these shortcuts, you need to hold the command key (which has the looped square symbol printed on it) and press the corresponding key. Command-V - Paste the contents of the Clipboard into the current document or app.Command-C - Copy the selected item to the Clipboard.Command-X - Cut the selected item and copy it to the Clipboard.The first method involves three very handy keyboard shortcuts that you should definitely remember: I would recommend taking a dive into google to see all the cool things you can do with your system through this application.There are two main methods how you can copy and paste text, documents, images, and other content across applications and web pages. The terminal is a powerful tool baked into the Macintosh system. Obviously you would replace "username" with your account name. Users/username/Pictures/ScreenShots: is the path to the new location for the screen shot. Write: is a command specific to the Defaults program which tells defaults to write the following changes to the specified applicationĬom.apple.screencapture: is the package designation for Apple's screen shot application "defaults write location /Users/username/Pictures/ScreenShots"ĭefaults: is a program which handles user preferences in the Macintosh system. ( This simply restarts the UI with the new settings applied)įor example I changed my Mac to store screenshots in a folder in my pictures so my command looked like Then type "killall SystemUIServer" to apply the changes. You can type "defaults write location /path/to/new/location" (again without the quotes) If you start Spotlight search (the magnifying glass at the top right of the screen) you can type "terminal" (without the quotes) to launch the application. To have screenshots save to another location, as with many things, you can utilize Mac's powerful Terminal application to change this function. Move the camera pointer over the window to highlight it, hold down CONTROL and then click mouse. Move the camera pointer over the window to highlight it, and then click mouse. To capture a window to the Clipboard (instead of a PNG desktop file):Ĭapture a specific window or art of your screen (Select the screen area) The screenshot is added to your desktop (as PNG file)Ĭopt Screen to Clipboard (for pasting into other apps) – Use CONTROL Take Screen shot as picture (PNG) file on Desktop:
Q: How to take a Mac screenshot and paste directly to word from clipboard without savings as a PNG file on the desktop?Ī: you need to use CONTROL button as well as other buttons to save straight to clipboardĪpple Support - Take a screenshot on your Mac
Hello, quick tip (rather than a question) for those who need to take screenshots and paste directly clipboard - took me a while to figure this out (though is mentioned on Mac OS Support Site at bottom)