While working on deliverables for my current project, I was tasked with doing test plans.  Now, as every good test plan has screenshots of the user interface to help the next developer or tester understand what they should expect to see in the UI.  So, I fired up Word 2010 and started to write the steps to perform in my test plan.  Then I noticed in the ribbon a new feature called Screenshot located in the Insert Ribbon.  Being the curious person that I am, I had to try that out.  I was just amazed!

In the past I have used different tools to do screen captures such as Jing and SnagIt.  Both are great tools but in my case, Jing takes a lot of time to do Virtual Machine capturing.  One benefit of using Jing or SnagIt is the ability to annotate the image that was captured.  But if all you want is to do screenshots and even clipping of the image for a Word document.  Then the built in capability might be just what you need.

Here are the steps you can use to do screen captures using Word 2010.

1. Inside your Word document, notice the Insert option
2. Once you click on Insert, you will see an option for Screenshot
3. The options available in the dropdown for Screenshot will show windows of applications you currently have running.  The other option is Screen Clipping.
4. When you use screenshot option, pick a window of an application you are currently using.  This will paste the image in your Word document.
5. I was pasting into a table and needed the picture and text to wrap.  So you will notice the option Wrap Text in the Arrange portion of the Ribbon. 
6. Choose the option for Top and Bottom in wrap text.
7. Now, if you want a portion of the image, you can use the Crop option. 

That is all you need to do to quickly incorporate images in your Word document!