Go to the document where you want to past the image and press Ctrl-V or use the Edit menu to paste from the clipboard.

You can save, or highlight or draw on the image in the capture window – but you don't have to.

Click and drag corner-to-corner to select the area that you want to capture.

Hold down the Ctrl key and tap the PrtScn key.

Tap (don't hold down) the Esc key, and then open the menu that you want to capture.

Click the arrow next to the New button and select Rectangular Snip from the list.

But you can capture them with the Snipping Tool. Menus usually disappear when you press any key. Again: the image is on the clipboard to be copied into a document (Ctrl-V).Ĭapturing a menu (e.g. You may email a screen shot without saving it by using the 'Send To' button on the Snipping Tool toolbar. The eraser tool will remove marks made with the Pen and Highlighter Tools.

You can save your image (floppy disk icon) or just close the Snipping Tool now. Before saving your screen shot, you can use the Pen and Highlighter tools in the Snipping Tool toolbar to add markup to your screen shot.

You'll also be prompted to save: go ahead if you want to preserve the snip.

Or you can write on the image with the Pen, add Highlights, and erase your first thoughts in writing or highlighting. This article is great about how to add the tools in general, but nowhere in the tool selections (regarding adding to Quick Tool Bar) can you find the.

But you don't have to do anything else: your image is already saved in the Windows clipboard. You can close the Snipping tool and paste the image into your document (Use Edit- Paste or Ctrl-V). It displays your image for saving or marking up.

If you choose Full-screen, an image of the screen immediately appearsĤ.

For Free-form or Rectangular snips, hold down the left mouse button and drag around the area you want: a red line marks your progress.

3: Click the down-arrow beside the New button and choose the type of capture you want. 2: Make sure that what you want to capture is onscreen. Quick Start: Using the Snipping Toolġ: Open the tool. If you like it, drag it to the taskbar, or right-click and choose Pin to Start Menu. Screen capture in Windows 10: The Snipping Toolĭo you need to make a handout or web page that shows how to do something on a computer? Wouldn't it be great to have pictures of the process-especially if you could easily annotate them? With Windows 10, you can use the Snipping Tool to capture screen images and paste them into your documents, web pages, or presentations.

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