How To Use Print Screen Windows 7

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

Capture whatsoever of the following types of snips:

Free-class snip	Draw a free-form shape effectually an object.
Rectangular snip	Elevate the cursor around an object to form a rectangle.
Window snip	Select a window, such every bit a dialog box, that you desire to capture.
Full-screen snip	Capture the unabridged 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 x	Select the Beginning, entersnipping tool, so select Snipping Tool from the results. PressWindows logo primal+Shift+S.
For Windows viii.1 or Windows RT 8.one	Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, select Search, entersnipping tool in the search box, and so select Snipping Tool from the list of results.
For Windows 7	Select Kickoff, then entersnipping tool in the search box, and and then select Snipping Tool from the listing of results.

Work with your screenshots

With your Snipping Tool open, select ane of the following to create and work with your screenshots.

In Snipping Tool, selectMode. In earlier versions of Windows, select the arrow next to the New button. Next, when y'all choose the kind of snip you want, you'll meet the whole screen change slightly to gray. Then, choosing from annihilation currently displayed on the screen, select the area of your screen that you want to capture.

Snipping Tool mode options

After you open Snipping Tool, open the menu that you want to capture. For Windows 7, printing theEsckey before opening the carte du jour.
PressCtrl + PrtScn keys. The unabridged screen changes to gray including the open menu.
SelectMode, or in earlier versions of Windows, select the pointer side by side to theNewbutton. Select the kind of snip you lot want, and then select the area of the screen capture that yous desire to capture.

Afterwards you capture a snip, you tin write or draw on or around it by selecting thePenorHighlighterbuttons. SelectEraser to remove the lines yous've drawn.

After you capture a snip, select theSave Snipbutton.
In the Save As box, blazon a file proper name, location, and type, so selectSave.

When you capture a snip from a browser window and save it as an HTML file, the URL appears below the snip. To prevent the URL from appearing:

In the Snipping Tool, select theOptionsbutton.
In theSnipping Tools Options box, clear theInclude URL below snips (HTML merely) check box, so selectOK.

After you capture a snip, select the arrow next to the Send Snip button, and and then select an option from the list.

Press these keys	To exercise this
Alt + M	Choose a snipping mode.
Alt + North	Create a new snip in the same mode equally the last one.
Shift + arrow keys	Move the cursor to select from dissimilar types of snips.
Alt + D	Delay capture past 1-5 seconds
Ctrl + C	Re-create the snip to clipboard
Ctrl +	Save the snip

With your capture open in Snipping Tool, selectEdit >Edit with Pigment 3D to utilise features for sizing, colour, text, and many other enhancements.

In the folder where you've saved your snip, correct click on the snip. SelectPrint from the options and brand choices for how you desire to print your paradigm.

In the search box on the taskbar, typesnipping tool. You lot'll run across the Snipping Tool app and a list of actions yous can take. SelectPin to taskbar.

Showtime, identify the carte or other components you lot want to capture. In Snipping Tool, select Delay and and then select, for instance, v seconds. Select Manner to first the 5-second countdown. Inside five seconds, open a bill of fare or otherwise compose your image. At 5 seconds, when you lot meet the screen turn gray, use the mouse to draw around the area y'all want.

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