Snipping Tool Magic!

Posted: Friday, July 15th, 2011 by Amy

The Lanlogic Support team loves the Snipping Tool built into Windows 7!  Here’s a cool how-to that you may not have heard about.

There is a keyboard shortcut for the snipping tool – Ctrl+Print Screen.  This is especially useful if you want to capture a snip of a right-click menu, tooltip, mouse-over or other similar effect.

Run Snipping Tool: Start | All Programs |Accessories | Snipping Tool  (if you do any amount of snipping, I recommend a shortcut to this in your quick-launch bar)

It’ll automatically start up in a mode to take a snip.  From here, you can either take a snip of the screen, or if you want to capture a special-effect, just press Esc and continue through these instructions.

Open the menu or place your mouse over object to trigger the effects you want to get a snip of.

Press CTRL+PRINT SCREEN keys. (note: this only works with the snipping tool open)

The computer screen will freeze and allow you to capture a snip of the special effects. Click the arrow next to the New button, select a snip type from the menu, and then use your mouse to select the area of screen you want captured.

The magic of the snipping tool…  makes documentation a snap!