From the course: Managing Conversions Between Adobe CC and Microsoft Office
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Use Snagit for screenshots
From the course: Managing Conversions Between Adobe CC and Microsoft Office
Use Snagit for screenshots
- [Voiceover] One final tool in your arsenal of tools with which to beat back the horrible dragon of converting files back and forth between Office and Adobe is a real screenshot program. I know that both the Mac and Windows come with screen capture software built in, you just press a keyboard shortcut and it makes a file that saves to your desktop. That is not good enough. Very often when you are doing conversions the simplest, fastest, most expedient thing to do is to just take a screenshot of the artwork you're trying to move from one file to another. Like this Home Product Sales Total chart. Now I will actually show you other ways to get this out of Excel and into Photoshop or Illustrator InDesign, but if I were in a hurry, what I would probably want to do is just take a screenshot of this thing. You want to do a screenshot because it saves an actual file on your desktop that you can import and that you can edit. You don't want to try and copy and paste. That's verboten, you don't…
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