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How to screen capture just the active window (Win9x/2000/NT):

If you hit the Print Screen button, and then paste into a Word document or image editor, you'll get a picture of the entire desktop:

picture of active window and desktop

But, all you really want is the MS Word Window. To do this, hit Alt-PrintScreen with the MS Word Window as the active window. You'll get this as a result:

picture of only the active window

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