How To Use Snip Tool On Windows

Take a snapshot to copy words or images from all or part of your PC screen. Use Snipping Tool to make changes or notes, then salvage, and share.

Capture whatever of the following types of snips:

Free-course snip	Draw a gratuitous-form shape effectually an object.
Rectangular snip	Elevate the cursor effectually an object to form a rectangle.
Window snip	Select a window, such as a dialog box, that you want to capture.
Full-screen snip	Capture the entire screen.

When you capture a snip, it'due south automatically copied to the Snipping Tool window where you make changes, relieve, and share.

Open up Snipping Tool

For Windows ten	Select the Start, entersnipping tool, so select Snipping Tool from the results. PressWindows logo cardinal+Shift+S.
For Windows eight.1 or Windows RT viii.1	Swipe in from the right border of the screen, select Search, entersnipping tool in the search box, and then select Snipping Tool from the list of results.
For Windows 7	Select Start, then entersnipping tool in the search box, and and then select Snipping Tool from the list of results.

Piece of work with your screenshots

With your Snipping Tool open up, select ane of the post-obit to create and work with your screenshots.

In Snipping Tool, selectMode. In earlier versions of Windows, select the pointer next to the New push. Next, when you choose the kind of snip you want, you lot'll see the whole screen modify slightly to gray. And then, choosing from anything currently displayed on the screen, select the area of your screen that you want to capture.

Snipping Tool mode options

Subsequently you open Snipping Tool, open the menu that you lot desire to capture. For Windows 7, printing theEsckey earlier opening the card.
PressCtrl + PrtScn keys. The entire screen changes to gray including the open menu.
SelectWay, or in earlier versions of Windows, select the arrow next to theNewbutton. Select the kind of snip yous want, and then select the area of the screen capture that y'all want to capture.

Later on yous capture a snip, you lot can write or draw on or around it by selecting thePenorHighlighterbuttons. SelectEraser to remove the lines you've fatigued.

After you lot capture a snip, select theSalvage Snipbutton.
In the Save As box, type a file name, location, and blazon, and and so selectSalve.

When you capture a snip from a browser window and salve it as an HTML file, the URL appears beneath the snip. To forbid the URL from appearing:

In the Snipping Tool, select theOptionspush button.
In theSnipping Tools Options box, clear theInclude URL below snips (HTML only) cheque box, and so selectOK.

Afterward you capture a snip, select the pointer side by side to the Transport Snip button, and then select an option from the list.

Press these keys	To practise this
Alt + Grand	Cull a snipping mode.
Alt + N	Create a new snip in the same mode as the concluding one.
Shift + arrow keys	Move the cursor to select from different types of snips.
Alt + D	Filibuster capture by 1-v seconds
Ctrl + C	Copy the snip to clipboard
Ctrl +	Salvage the snip

With your capture open in Snipping Tool, selectEdit >Edit with Pigment 3D to use features for sizing, color, text, and many other enhancements.

In the binder where you've saved your snip, right click on the snip. SelectPrint from the options and make choices for how you want to print your prototype.

In the search box on the taskbar, typesnipping tool. Yous'll see the Snipping Tool app and a list of actions you tin can take. SelectPivot to taskbar.

First, place the carte du jour or other components you want to capture. In Snipping Tool, select Filibuster and so select, for example, 5 seconds. Select Mode to get-go the 5-second countdown. Within 5 seconds, open a carte or otherwise compose your prototype. At 5 seconds, when you see the screen turn gray, use the mouse to draw around the area you want.