As well as being able to export content to Excel tables and PowerPoint decks, sometimes all you want is a quick and easy way of capturing what you’re looking at on screen right now, perhaps to send in an email to a colleague or to place in a presentation. For that, Crunch provides the ability to ‘grab’ the analysis or dashboard tile you are currently viewing and either copy it to your clipboard or download it as an image.
The following describes how you can quickly make a copy to an image or clipboard.
How it works
In addition to the export options for fully editable Excel tables and PowerPoint slides, you also have “Grab this image…” options within dashboards, Variable Summaries mode and Tables & Graphs mode. Each enables you to quickly generate a PNG image of the current tile, table, or visualization and then choose whether to download it to your computer or copy it to your clipboard ready to paste elsewhere. The following sections show you how each one appears.
Tables & Graphs mode
You’ll find a “Grab as image” option in the top right corner, next to the “Save” option:
Variable Summaries mode
Hovering over a ‘card’ will reveal a 3-dots icon in the top right corner. Clicking the icon opens a menu, which contains the “Grab this image…” option:
This menu replaces the previous “Save” and “Properties” options, which used to float beneath the cards upon hover. The “Convert to” flyout menu replaces the old ‘cog’ icon that used to appear for dataset Editors in the top-right corner of the cards. The “Analyze…” option opens this variable in Tables & Graphs mode (the same as double-clicking on the card).
Dashboards
Hovering over a dashboard tile will reveal a 3-dots icon in the top right corner of the tile. Clicking the icon opens a menu, which contains the “Grab this image…” option:
The “Analyze…” option replaces the previous behavior of double-clicking on a dashboard tile to open it in Tables & Graphs mode.
Whether in Tables & Graphs mode, Variable Summaries mode, or a dashboard, once you’ve selected one of these Grab Image options, you’ll see a purple stripe at the top with the choice between downloading as an image file (PNG) or copying to your clipboard. The resultant image is the same in both cases and should match what you saw on screen.
Firefox prevents content being pushed to the user’s clipboard so only the export as image option is available for Firefox.