Snipping Tool for Capturing Screen Shots in Windows Vista/7/8/8.1 – Download and Use

Snipping Tool for Capturing Screen Shots in Windows Vista/7/8/8.1 – Download and Use

Snipping Tool

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Snipping Tool captures a screen shot of anything on your desktop, like a picture or a section of webpage. Snip a whole window, a rectangular section of the screen, or draw a freehand outline with your mouse or tablet pen (or your finger, if you’re using a PC with a touchscreen). Then you can annotate, save, or e-mail the image using buttons right in the Snipping Tool window. Snipping Tool is available only in the Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions of Windows 7.

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The snipping tool is an essential tool designed to help you capture a copy of the content o

f your screen, there are some websites that prevent copy and save as the screen capture will help you keep a record or copy of the content.

Finding the Snipping Tool on your computer.

• The snipping tool can be found easily be doing a search on your system, for windows vista and windows 7.
• Click on start, type in the search box the term “snipping tool”, then press enter.
• On windows 8 and above, swipe to the right edge of your screen and search for snipping tool press enter to view.

To add snipping tool to your task bar

If you right click the icon it will open a menu on the bottom portion of the screen.

1. To pin the application to your tile menu click “Pin to Start.”
2. To pin the application to your task bar on your desktop click “Pin to Taskbar.”

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To open Snipping Tool

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Snipping tool Windows 8 or Windows 8.1

The snipping tool in windows 8 and windows 8.1 is quite similar to that of the windows 7, however locating it might require you doing a simple search on your windows device.

Snipping tool shortcut Windows 8.1

Previously known shortcut for snipping tool on windows 8 does not work on windows 8.1.

For windows 8 the short cut is ctr+alt+s

For windows 8.1 its is shift+win key +s

First time users should wait a bit and launch the app. Use the alt+tab key to check for open tabs.

You can capture the following types of snips:

class="unordered">class="listItem">class="para">class="leadInPhrase_other">Free-form Snip.  Draw any shape around an object with your finger, mouse, or tablet pen.

class="listItem">class="para">class="leadInPhrase_other">Rectangular Snip. Drag the cursor around an object to form a rectangle.

class="listItem">class="para">class="leadInPhrase_other">Window Snip.  Choose a window—like a browser window or a dialog box.

class="listItem">class="para">class="leadInPhrase_other">Full-screen Snip.  Capture the entire screen.