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.