Capturing mouse pointers

[Bruce Johnston]

Greetings:

I am doing an 'in house' help sheet for my co-workers on
working with tables in Word XP. I have been including some
screen shots, but I've come to a place where I also need
to show what the mouse pointer looks like in a particular
spot. Sadly, mouse pointers don't seem to be captured when
I take a screen shot.
Is there some way to capture the mouse pointer graphic, or
can someone point me in the direction where these cursor
graphics may be stored on the computer?

Thanks for any help.
Bruce

 

[Graham Mayor]

If you use a specialised screen capture utility such as SnagIt, Capture
Express, Corel Draw etc allow you to choose whether to capture the cursor or
not. I use SnagIt to do this for my own web site screen shots.

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[Mark Jerde]

If you find yourself in the documentation business, SnagIt is well worth the
investment. In addition to capturing or ignoring cursors, these are the
features I use all the time:
- Hotkeys I defined
-- Ctrl-Shift-C = Capture region
-- Ctrl-Shift-W = Capture window (control, form, whatever)
- Reducing the size to 75% or 50%. Unlike some other programs, the text
is still usually readable.
- Save to .jpg for web use
- "SnagIt Studio" for annotating screen shots

SnagIt was also the first capture program I used that fully supported
multiple monitors.

I have no relationship to Techsmith other than customer. SnagIt can be
found at
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-- Mark

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

If you use a specialised screen capture utility such as SnagIt, Capture

Express, Corel Draw etc allow you to choose whether to capture the cursor or
not. I use SnagIt to do this for my own web site screen shots.

CorelDraw has another handy tool

You can opt to install import filters for such unlikely things as DLL, EXE
and other such filetypes.
If you do that, you can import bitmaps, cursors and other such resources
held in the apps themselves.

Generally, a screen grab is easier and faster, but once in a while this is a
handy trick to have.