Using The Snapshot Feature

The Snapshot feature allows you to record screen shots and other information (such as Apollo Plus) that you may want to print into a word processor. The word processor is called Notepad and is a standard feature of your Windows operating system. By recording your information into the Snapshot feature, you are able to edit the text and then print it as you see fit. This is much more efficient the printing one item per sheet of paper.

In this example, we will use a screen shot of a DSPLOF, as well as one of a DSPID/. As you can see in this first graphic, when you use the Snapshot feature for a screen shot, it records the entire screen into the word processor including the "status" line that is common with CompuServe, as well as a lot of blank space.

To begin editing out the unwanted text and blank space, first place the cursor at the top of the area that you would like to remove. Next, while holding down the Shift key, use the down arrow on your key board and begin highlighting the area that is to be removed. This can also be accomplished by clicking and dragging your mouse across the area to be highlighted and removed.

Once the desired area is highlighted, let go of the Shift key. The area will stay highlighted. Now, hit the Delete key on your keyboard. The highlighted area will be removed.

Next, we will remove the blank space and the "ROLL-UP FOR MORE INFO..." line, and cause the bottom part of the ID (which was recorded with a separate Snapshot because it had to be "rolled-up in Unimatic") to be attached to the top part of the ID. This will make for better printing.

First, highlight the area to be removed...

.....then remove the undesireable highlighted area.

You can see that the ID is now displayed as one intact ID. Now we can scroll back up to the top of the screen, and you will see that the DSPLOF and DSPID have now been edited and will result in a much better print.

The advantage here is that you can continue to add snapshots to this screen, edit as you choose, and then print all of your snapshots on one page. To print, click on the File menu, and then choose Print in the Snapshot feature.

**PLEASE NOTE**
The one thing you cannot do with this screen is to save this editing for future viewing, unless you rename the file first. As long as the file remanes named Snapshot.txt, the editing it contains cannot be saved, although the information it contains will be saved. Here what you need to do.

Click on the File menu, and then choose 'Save As..'.

You are then presented with the Save As dialog box. You need to type in whatever name you like for the new file at the bottom.

Once that is complete, click Save and the new file with the new name is created.

The next time you would like to access this file, click the Options/Snatpshot menu as normal. Once the Snapshot feature is displayed to you (which may have completely different recorded information in it by now), click on the File menu, and then choose Open.

You will be presented with the Open dialog box, which is very similar to the Save As dialog box. Now click on the File name that you would like to open.

Finally, when you click the 'Open' button, you will be presented with the file that you saved and renamed. Now that you have a renamed file, any editing you do to it will indeed be saved as well. Also, you can create a many files as you like, each containing different information. So you can save your IDs, or reports, or LOFs, or whatever you like. It's like having your own customizable filing cabinet!