Add that file to any kind of document or Web site you want and you’ve automatically added that snip to the document.Īnd that’s all there is to using the Snipping Tool for quick screen shot captures. To save your snip as a file, click on File–>Save as from the menu bar and the program will let you save the snipped screen as a. You’ll then be able to paste the snip into another Windows screen. To copy the snip to your Windows clipboard, simply type the Ctrl+C keystroke combination or select Edit–>Copy from the Snipping Tool menu bar. You have two options when you’re finished editing: 1) you can copy and paste the screen snip into another Windows program via the Windows clipboard or 2) you can save the snip as a file.
Once your snip is inside the Snipping Tool screen, you can do some minor editing such as highlighting and erasing parts of the snippet. Here’s what my Snipping Tool screen looked like after I snipped a tweet off my Twitter account (click to enlarge). The Snipping Tool will copy and paste the boxed section of your screen into its screen. When you have the entire snipped area defined, let go of the mouse button. Hold down your left-mouse button and drag that cross-hair over the section of the screen that you want to snip.The Snipping tool will automatically draw a box around that area, creating a sub-image from the larger screen. You’ll see a screen that looks like this.īring up the Windows screen you want to snip a piece of and then come back to the Snipping Tool Window and click on New. Click on the Snipping Tool program that shows up in the search results. When you see a Windows screen that you want to snip a piece of, click on the Windows 7 Start button and type in Snipping Tool in the search box. It’s easy to use, fast, and free with Windows 7. Snipped files can be inserted or attached to blogs, emails, Web sites, tweets, Facebook posts, LinkedIn, etc.
The Snipping Tool is great for quickly grabbing and saving screen shot sections (snips) for copying or saving as a graphics file, such as a. If you’re running Windows 7, Microsoft provides a tool for grabbing all or part of any screen you’re looking at and turning it into a graphics file or copying it to the Windows clipboard: the Windows 7 Snipping Tool.
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