Have you looked at ShareX? (https://getsharex.com/) It's FOSS, and has almost too many options for capturing things on the screen.
Pair that with something like Key-n-Stroke (https://github.com/Phaiax/Key-n-Stroke), and you can demo just about anything for free.
Erich
On Monday, February 7, 2022 at 18:11, Charles Meyer eloquently inscribed:
> Hi All,
> I'm trying to create still graphics of step-by-step instructions for both
> Word and Excel 365.
>
> The challenge is when I hover the mouse over an icon in a Group once I
> press the Printscrn button or use a Windows hotkey to try to capture
> that word description over the icon disappears once you press a key on
> the keyboard.
>
> Ex. Excel 365 (cf. other Word versions) you hover your mouse over the ab
> down arrow c in the Alignment group and the Words Wrap Text (which
> appear when you hover the mouse over that icon) disappear the second you
> press Printscrn.
>
> Other Excel versions the words Wrap Text appear in the Alignment Group -
> no hovering required.
>
> Same applies to Word 365 (maybe not other versions) > Paragraph group >
> Sort - where that word only appears when you hover over it.
>
> How do you capture that hovering text?
>
> Any free screen capture software which will capture hovering over functions
> in another software like Excel, Word, Libre Writer or Calc?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Charles.
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