
Just start snipping tool and click on new. Show Selection ink after snips are captured How to use the snipping tool.Show screen overlay when Snipping Tool is active.Hide instruction text – These options hide the instruction text shown on the main toolbar.Options – Click this menu and it opens a small option box as shown below. Full-screen snip – Capture entire screen.Ĭancel – This cancels the snipping operation.Window snip – This allows you to take a snip of the active window.Rectangular snip – This allows you to take snip in rectangular form.Highlight and select the required area in the shape you want. Click on it and it will open a Free form selection. Free-form snip – this allows you to take a free-form snip.Click on the arrow to see additional options. This small toolbar provides the option to take snip with 3 command buttons New, Cancel and Options. Snipping Tool Toolbar Explained in Details No need to install the Windows Snipping tool. It is a free and basic tool which allows you to take a Free-form Snip, Rectangular Snip, Window Snip, and Full-screen snip and add basic annotation and modification. Windows Snipping Tool is a default program in Windows Vista, Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10 to take the screenshot. I am sure you will love it….!!! Windows Snipping Tool For me personally, I would think about this as being closely linked to the screen snipping tool, so I would find the additional key toggle for invocation more logical than confusing.Snipping Tool is very handy and easy to use to take the screenshot. (FWIW, my real desire for use is to avoid needing to capture/download an image and send it into this image translator from Yandex: ) which I would probably still use in some cases because it actually overlays the translated text in the image, so with things like charts and tables, the translations appear where they should.Īnd regarding the keyboard shortcut - I am fine with whatever the default is as long as it can be changed. For me, it would be great if I could select the OCR language within the tool, but switching keyboards pre- and post-capture would not be terribly burdensome, particularly as I recognize this would not be the standard use case for the vast majority of users. Thanks for the note about the manner of activation/use of alternative OCR via changing the keyboard selection.
