How To Use The Snipping Tool In Windows 10

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

Capture any of the following types of snips:

Free-grade 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 equally a dialog box, that you lot desire to capture.
Full-screen snip	Capture the entire screen.

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

Open Snipping Tool

For Windows 10	Select the Start, entersnipping tool, then select Snipping Tool from the results. PressWindows logo key+Shift+South.
For Windows 8.1 or Windows RT eight.1	Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, select Search, entersnipping tool in the search box, and and so select Snipping Tool from the list of results.
For Windows vii	Select Start, then entersnipping tool in the search box, and and then select Snipping Tool from the list of results.

Work with your screenshots

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

In Snipping Tool, selectWay. In earlier versions of Windows, select the arrow next to the New button. Next, when you cull the kind of snip you want, you'll meet the whole screen modify slightly to gray. So, choosing from annihilation currently displayed on the screen, select the area of your screen that y'all desire to capture.

Snipping Tool mode options

After you open up Snipping Tool, open the carte that you want to capture. For Windows vii, printing theEsckey earlier opening the menu.
PressCtrl + PrtScn keys. The entire screen changes to gray including the open menu.
SelectWay, or in earlier versions of Windows, select the arrow adjacent to theNewbutton. Select the kind of snip you desire, and so select the area of the screen capture that you want to capture.

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

Later you capture a snip, select theSave Snipbutton.
In the Salve Equally box, type a file name, location, and type, and then selectSalvage.

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 appearing:

In the Snipping Tool, select theOptionsbutton.
In theSnipping Tools Options box, clear theInclude URL below snips (HTML only) check box, then selectOK.

After you lot capture a snip, select the pointer next to the Send Snip button, and so select an selection from the list.

Press these keys	To exercise this
Alt + Grand	Choose a snipping fashion.
Alt + N	Create a new snip in the aforementioned mode every bit the last one.
Shift + arrow keys	Move the cursor to select from different types of snips.
Alt + D	Delay capture by 1-five seconds
Ctrl + C	Re-create the snip to clipboard
Ctrl +	Salvage the snip

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

In the folder where y'all've saved your snip, right click on the snip. SelectPrint from the options and make choices for how you lot desire to impress your image.

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

First, identify the menu or other components you want to capture. In Snipping Tool, select Delay and and then select, for example, 5 seconds. Select Way to start the 5-second countdown. Inside 5 seconds, open a menu or otherwise etch your image. At v seconds, when you lot see the screen plough gray, use the mouse to describe around the expanse you want.