How To Use Snipping 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, and then salve, and share.

Capture any of the post-obit types of snips:

Complimentary-form snip	Draw a gratuitous-form shape around an object.
Rectangular snip	Drag the cursor around 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, information technology's automatically copied to the Snipping Tool window where you make changes, salvage, and share.

Open Snipping Tool

For Windows ten	Select the Start, entersnipping tool, so select Snipping Tool from the results. PrintingWindows logo cardinal+Shift+S.
For Windows 8.1 or Windows RT 8.1	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 Commencement, then entersnipping tool in the search box, and then select Snipping Tool from the list of results.

Work with your screenshots

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

In Snipping Tool, selectFashion. In earlier versions of Windows, select the pointer next to the New button. Side by side, when you choose the kind of snip you want, you'll see the whole screen alter slightly to gray. Then, choosing from anything currently displayed on the screen, select the area of your screen that you want to capture.

Snipping Tool mode options

After you lot open Snipping Tool, open the menu that you want to capture. For Windows vii, press theEsckey before opening the card.
PressCtrl + PrtScn keys. The entire screen changes to grey including the open menu.
SelectManner, or in earlier versions of Windows, select the arrow adjacent to theNewbutton. Select the kind of snip you desire, and then select the area of the screen capture that you lot want to capture.

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

Afterwards you capture a snip, select theSave Snippush button.
In the Save As box, blazon a file proper name, location, and type, and then selectSave.

When you capture a snip from a browser window and save it as an HTML file, the URL appears below the snip. To prevent the URL from actualization:

In the Snipping Tool, select theOptionsbutton.
In theSnipping Tools Options box, articulate theInclude URL below snips (HTML simply) check box, so selectOK.

After you capture a snip, select the arrow next to the Send Snip button, and so select an option from the list.

Press these keys	To do this
Alt + 1000	Cull a snipping fashion.
Alt + Due north	Create a new snip in the same mode as the last one.
Shift + arrow keys	Move the cursor to select from different types of snips.
Alt + D	Delay capture by i-5 seconds
Ctrl + C	Copy the snip to clipboard
Ctrl +	Save the snip

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

In the folder where you lot've saved your snip, correct click on the snip. SelectPrint from the options and make choices for how yous want to print your image.

In the search box on the taskbar, blazonsnipping tool. You'll encounter the Snipping Tool app and a list of actions you can take. SelectPin to taskbar.

First, identify the bill of fare or other components yous want to capture. In Snipping Tool, select Delay and and so select, for case, five seconds. Select Way to start the 5-2nd countdown. Within 5 seconds, open a menu or otherwise etch your image. At five seconds, when you come across the screen plough gray, utilize the mouse to draw effectually the area you want.