EDBA 7324 Organizational Leadership Theory and Application: Using Snip Tool for Graphics

Using the Snip Tool to save graphics and screen shots

To use the Snipping Tool when you have a mouse and a keyboard:

1. Press Windows logo key + Shift + S. The desktop will darken while you select an area for your screenshot.
2. Rectangular mode is selected by default. ...
3. The screenshot is automatically copied to your clipboard.

Use Snipping Tool to capture screenshots

Windows 10 Windows 8.1 Windows 7

Take a snapshot to copy words or images from all or part of your PC screen. Use Snipping Tool to make changes or notes, then save, and share.

Capture any of the following types of snips:

• Free-form snip
• Draw a free-form shape around an object.
• Rectangular snip

Drag the cursor around an object to form a rectangle.

Window snip

Select a window, such as a dialog box, that you want to capture.

Full-screen snip

Capture the entire screen.

When you capture a snip, it's automatically copied to the Snipping Tool window where you make changes, save, and share.

Open Snipping Tool

For Windows 10

Select the Start, enter snipping tool, then select Snipping Tool from the results.

Press Windows logo key + Shift + S.  For Windows 8.1 or Windows RT 8.1

Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, select Search, enter snipping tool in the search box, and then select Snipping Tool from the list of results.

For Windows 7

Select Start, then enter snipping tool in the search box, and then select Snipping Tool from the list of results.