How to Use the Snipping Tool in Windows to Take Screenshots. There are many tools out there for taking screenshots in Windows. However, it’s not necessary to install a third party application for this purpose. The Snipping Tool, included in Windows Vista and later, allows you to take various types of screenshots and edit and annotate them. We briefly covered the Snipping Tool in our article about taking screenshots on almost any device, but we’ll go into more detail here, showing you how to take screenshots, save, edit, annotate, and email screenshots, and change the settings in the Snipping Tool. To access the Snipping Tool, open the Start screen, if it’s not already active, by clicking the Start screen button on the left side of the Taskbar. Click the down arrow button in the lower- left corner of the Start screen to access the “Apps” screen.
On the “Apps” screen, scroll to find the “Snipping Tool” in the “Windows Accessories” section and click on it. NOTE: You can also open the “Snipping Tool” by starting to type “snipping tool” on the Start screen to activate the “Search” box. When the “Snipping Tool” displays in the results, click on it to open it. You are returned to the Desktop and the small “Snipping Tool” dialog box displays.
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To change settings for the Snipping Tool, click “Options” on the dialog box. The “Snipping Tool Options” dialog box allows you to specify how the application behaves and looks. The “Application” section allows you to change the following settings, regarding the use of the Snipping Tool. Select or de- select the check boxes to turn on and off the options.“Hide Instruction Text” – Hides the text you see below the buttons on the “Snipping Tool” dialog box.“Always copy snips to the Clipboard” – Copies all screenshots to the Windows clipboard, allowing you to paste them into other applications such as word processors or other image editors.“Include URL below snips (HTML only)” – Saves your screenshots as Single File HTML or MHT documents. When you take a screenshot in an Internet Explorer window, the URL of the webpage is included in the screenshot.“Prompt to save snips before exiting” – When you close the Snipping Tool, this option causes the program to inform you of any screenshots you have not saved, allowing you to save them before closing the program.“Show screen overlay when Snipping Tool is active” – By default, while you are taking a screenshot with the Snipping Tool, a white overlay displays. If you don’t want this overlay, de- select this option. The “Selection” section allows you to change the following settings regarding the color palette in the Snipping Tool: “Ink Color” – Changes the color of the selection border that displays when you create a snip.
Select a color from the drop- down list.“Show selection ink after snips are captured” – When this check box is selected, the selection border is shown around the snip after it’s taken, using the color selected in the “Ink Color” drop- down list. Click “OK” once you have set the options to your liking. To take a screenshot of a rectangular area of the screen, click the down arrow on the “New” button on the “Snipping Tool” dialog box and select “Rectangular Snip” from the drop- down menu. NOTE: The black dot on an option indicates that is the default choice if you were to click the button instead of accessing the drop- down list. The cursor turns into a crosshair, allowing you to draw a rectangle around the area of the screen you want to capture.
The border displays in the color selected on the “Snipping Tool Options” dialog box, as we discussed earlier. You can also take a screenshot of a specific window on the desktop. To do so, select “Window Snip” from the “New” drop- down menu. When the cursor turns into a hand, click on the window you want to capture.
NOTE: You can cancel the current snip after choosing the snip type by clicking the “Cancel” button. Once you’ve captured your screenshot, it opens in the “Snipping Tool” editing window. You can draw on the image using the “Pen” tool in different colors. To change the color of the Pen, click the down arrow on the “Pen” button and select a color. Use your mouse to draw on the image. You can also customize the pen by selecting “Customize.
Click “OK” once you’ve made your selections. The “Highlighter” tool allows you to highlight portions of your screenshot.
Click the “Highlighter” button on the toolbar and then draw over some text on your screenshot, for example. The “Highlighter” tool draws a thick, yellow line. The following image shows an example of the “Pen” tool used to draw an arrow and the “Highlighter” tool used to highlight some text. If you want to remove a line you drew or some a highlight you made, use the “Eraser” tool. Click the “Eraser” button on the toolbar. The cursor turns into an eraser. To erase an item, simply click eraser on the item you want to erase.
NOTE: Each item that is drawn by clicking in one spot and dragging the cursor to a second spot where you let go of the mouse button is one item. For example, the arrow below was drawn in three pieces: the main line and the two arrow pieces. Each piece must be clicked on separately to erase the whole arrow. Once you’ve captured, edited, and annotated your screenshot, you can save it by clicking the “Save Snip” button on the toolbar. On the “Save As” dialog box, navigate to the location where you want to save your screenshot.
Enter a name for the image file in the “File name” edit box and click “Save.”You can also email your screenshot. To email the image directly in an email message, click the down arrow on the “Send Snip” button on the toolbar and select “Email Recipient.” To email your screenshot as an attachment to an email message, select “Email Recipient (as attachment).”Your default email application opens and a new email message is created with the image included as an attachment. Enter a recipient in the “To” box, add any body text you want, and change the “Subject” if you want. Click “Send” when you are ready to send the email. NOTE: You can change your default email program in Windows 7 and Windows 8. To close the Snipping Tool editor, select “Exit” from the “File” menu. This closes both the editor and the main Snipping Tool dialog box.
If you only have the main Snipping Tool dialog box open, click the “X” button in the upper- right corner of the dialog box to exit the program. The Snipping Tool is a handy tool in Windows if you don’t want to bother with third party screen capture tools.
It has limited features, but it’s good for basic screenshots.