Note that when the menu is open, one of the selections will have a black dot next to it. If you have multiple monitors, the contents of all your monitors will be captured. This snip lets you take a screenshot of your entire display. This means that if some of the content of the window is offscreen, the offscreen portion will not be captured. This snip lets you click any open window to take a screenshot of the visible part of the window.

This snip lets you draw a rectangle with your pointer and then takes a screenshot of the rectangular selection.

This snip lets you draw any shape with your mouse pointer and then takes a screenshot of the selected area.

Type Snip in your Search Bar.To take a screenshot with the Snipping Tool, click the down arrow to the right of the “New” button.

Press Print Screen. Go to the Settings app and search for “PrtScn”, which will take you to a page with a toggle switch that says “Use the Print Screen key to launch screen snipping.” Turn on this toggle to start snipping with just a single key press.

If the Windows key + Shift + S keyboard shortcut is too long to remember, there are three easy entry options: You can also set the window size, and it even supports multiple windows. The Snip & Sketch app will show up on the taskbar and in the task switcher (Alt+tab), which makes it much easier to multi-task. To quickly snip and share a screenshot, press the Windows key + Shift + S to bring up a snipping toolbar – use it to snip a rectangle, something a bit more freeform, or full screen and it will go straight to your clipboard. Once you’re done, you can save or share your screenshot with others directly from the application. In addition to the old Snipping Tool’s features, Snip & Sketch adds many new annotation features to make this screenshot utility more useful – after you take a screenshot, you can immediately begin cropping, editing, and annotating.

While the original tool simply took screenshots of either the full screen or an area you chose, it couldn’t do much else. Snip & Sketch, available in Windows 10 is a program meant to replace the Snipping Tool that has been available in Windows 7, 8, and 10.

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