How To Set Shortcut Key For Snipping Tool Windows 10
Keena Wiegert
Press Windows+Shift+S to open the Snipping Tool on Windows 10 or Windows 11. The Snipping Tool can take rectangular region screenshots, full-screen screenshots, screenshots of a specific window, or freeform screenshots. You can also draw on a screenshot before you save it.
Need to quickly take a screenshot on your PC? If so, Windows' built-in Snipping Tool is just a keyboard shortcut away. This tool lets you capture screenshots in various shapes and also allows you to edit them. We'll show you how to launch it.
The original Snipping Tool is a legacy program introduced in Windows Vista continued to exist in Windows 7 and was eventually replaced in Windows 10 by Snip and Sketch. Despite being replaced, the Snipping Tool remains popular, and the Snipping Tool and Snip and Sketch are both commonly referred to as just "Snipping Tool."
To confuse matters further, Microsoft merged the legacy Snipping Tool and Snip and Sketch into a new application also named Snipping Tool with the release of Windows 11. The new Snipping Tool features a user interface reminiscent of the legacy snipping tool, but with all of the bells and whistles of Snip and Sketch.
Technically, Windows+Shift+S opens a program called Snip and Sketch on Windows 10 and Snipping Tool on Windows 11. We're going to refer to it as "Snipping Tool" for the purposes of this article because that is what most people call it still.
Once you press those keys, your screen will turn darker indicating the tool is active. At the top of your screen, you will see five icons, four of which allow you to choose the shape for your screenshot.
When hovering over the highlighted part of the screen, you will see little boxes surrounding some items for easier selection, along with horizontal and vertical lines. This is how the snipping tool for Windows 8 indicates how many pixels will be captured if dragged from left to right or up and down.
You can also use the Ctrl + Selection key to select items using Rectangular Selections. This can make the process easier when creating perfect selections. It may vary depending on which version of thumb keys are enabled in your Keyboard Settings via Ease of Access Center -> Settings -> Use the Same Tactile Keys for All Programs.
Figuring out how to use the snipping tool on Windows 8 is relatively straightforward. On the snipping tool page, you can use the new Metro-Style user interface to capture your entire screen or only snip a selected area, either immediately or by using the snipping tool delay timer.
Once you have captured your snip and reviewed it, you can save it to your computer with the Save button or by pressing Ctrl + S. You can also copy it to your clipboard by pressing Ctrl + C.
Are you tired of dragging the mouse over and clicking the snipping tool icon? If so, there is another convenient option for grabbing screenshots that uses your keyboard instead of your mouse. Simply press PrintScreen (PrtScr) on your keyboard.
This can be a quick and easy way to capture your screen without ever leaving Paint or Windows 8 Explorer. You no longer need to use the snipping tool because you can capture any part of your screen within seconds using the PrintScreen key.
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The title says it all. I customized different keyboard shortcuts. But every single shortcut config still keeps bringing up windows snipping tool. This is Windows 11. Is this a known bug? Are there any workarounds?
This is true. It arose because Microsoft changed things when it released Windows 11. So the problem is with Microsoft rather than Evernote. I'm sure that there could be some work done by Evernote to resolve the issue but since the workaround is trivial I anticipate that it will be sometime in arriving.
Meanwhile, I recommend Win+Shift+S which will open the Windows snipping tool with the cross hairs (just like the Evernote process used to have). Highlight the screen area you wish to snip. Then open the note where you want this to be captured (if it is a new note tap Ctrl+N) and tap Ctrl+V to paste the clip into the note.
To make things a bit less hassle I reset the New Note shortcut to Ctrl+Alt+N. Ctrl+N often launches a new window for whichever application has focus so doesn't always open a new note in Evernote unless Evernote has focus. Ctrl+Alt+N usually work regardless...
Ive withheld upgrading to the latest Evernote for years because of how I used evernote in my workflow, I upgraded earlier today and now my Evernote screenshots wont work on Win11 and it has becomes a sort of muscle memory for me to take screenshots using Evernote for around decade. Now it doesn't work =/
Use the Windows snipper (Win+Shift+S), capture the screen area and paste into a new note. If you wish, make the Windows screen capture directory an Evernpte Import Folder and then Win+Shift+S will work exactly as the Evernote screen capture previously did.
I would hardly call the original workaround "trivial." It is three keystrokes instead of one. But this last tip is brilliant and works well enough: add the Windows screen capture directory (C:\Users[User Name]\Pictures\Screenshots) as an Evernote Import Folder. Thank you agsteele!
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You may not know that Windows 10 has a built-in free Snipping Tool allowing to capture screenshots in Windows 10 with ease. By using the snipping tool shortcut in Windows 10, you can make screenshot capturing process much quicker.
Alt + M: Select a screen capture mode. You can use the Up and Down arrow keys to select the preferred mode. Snipping Tool offers 4 modes: Free-form snip, Rectangular tool, Window snip, Full-screen snip.
Alt + T, then press P: Open Pen menu. You can then press letter key on the keyboard to select preferred color pen, e.g. press R to select Red Pen, B to select Blue Pen, L to select Black Pen, P to select Custom Pen.
press command control shift and "4" all at the same time. This puts a + on your screen. It lets you outline what you want to "snip" with your touchpad. When you release the pressure on your touchpad, the computer takes a screenshot only of the area you outlined. You can then press "command" "v" to paste the "snipped" portion into a Word document or email or message.
Oh C'mon LowLuster, should she write every shortcut for the Mac 50 times as well? Although you are right, Network 23 gave a much better answer to the woman in distress. Why so grumpy? Eh'...she's a new Mac user perhaps and I say good on her then. These forums are to help others, not to berate or condescend to them.
Yes, there is an app for that. You got an incomplete answer. When people tell you the Mac keyboard shortcuts for screen shots, those are actually only the shortcuts to a much deeper set of screen shot capabilities.
The fact is that the Mac came out with a "snipping tool" app way, way before Windows ever did. OS X comes with an app called Grab (as in "screen grab"), in your Utilities folder. It will let you do screen shots with your mouse instead of having to memorize the shortcuts. Just click the Capture menu and you will have the commands Selection, Window, Screen, and Timed Screen. The Grab screen shot app has been around for many years (maybe 10 or more) while I believe the Windows Snipping Tool was not built into Windows until Windows Vista.
Also, note that the Window option means if you want to take a picture of just a single window or palette, you do not have to laboriously draw a selection around it. With the Window option, you just click that window and it's the only thing that will be captured, you'll get a nice clean grab of just that.
In addition to Grab, Apple added similar commands to the Preview app which is in your Dock or Applications folder. After starting up Preview, just choose File/Take Screen Shot and you have three commands: From Selection, From Windows, or From Entire Screen.
You Don't Need an App. It is built into OS X. Press the Shift key and the Command key and the # 4 key at the same time and the cursor will change to a Cross hairs with circle. Place that changed cursor at the start point of the windows you want to draw and Click and hold the trackpad and Drag to the other side of the window you want to draw. Release the trackpad. What was inside that box you drew will be made into a .PNG file and placed on your desktop.
Yes but some of the appeal of OS X is that you don't have to remember things like command lines and keyboard shortcuts because all of your choices can be presented in a friendly GUI, like you find in Grab and why Apple also decided to them to Preview.
I'm a big keyboard shortcut guy, but even I recognize that some people want an app because that is the entire point of why the Mac was invented in the first place: For everyone who prefers a nice friendly GUI because they don't want to have to memorize computery combos just to do simple tasks.
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