I second Dave Peterson's recommendation of SnagIt from TechSmith.com - an
excellent program, well maintained and updated. Much more versatile than the
simple print screen built into Windows: you can grab areas the way you want
them without having to go through a secondary application. Also allows
adding point outs and comments easily.

Another application, free, that is almost as versatile is PrintKey 2000.
That's the last free version of it. Works well at least up through Windows
XP, I haven't tried it on Vista.
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...scription.html

And finally there is the great graphic workhorse, IrfanView from
www.irfanview.com - also free and continuously updated and well maintained.

All of these allow saving the captures in a variety of formats including the
massive .bmp, and the more frugal .jpg, .gif, .tif, etc. formats.

"vsoler" wrote:

I want to prepare a simple Excel tutorial for my fellows in the
office, but I want to include some screenshots with the various
techniques, so that they are more understandable.

Is there any free software that I can use for this purpose?

My idea is to use Microsoft Word with the inserted pictures.

Thank you for your colaboration.