{"id":2047,"date":"2017-10-11T10:33:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T16:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.natsci.colostate.edu\/cnsit\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2017-10-11T10:33:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T16:33:03","slug":"how-to-use-windows-snipping-tool-to-capture-all-or-part-of-your-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/how-to-use-windows-snipping-tool-to-capture-all-or-part-of-your-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Windows Snipping Tool to capture all or part of your screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of us have had to capture our PC screens at some point for work, school or both. \u00a0It can be a simple or incredibly frustrating experience. With the advent of Snipping Tool,\u00a0this process has become much simpler and certainly more user friendly, as you\u2019ll see in this walk-through tutorial.<\/p>\n

One of the great features in Windows Snipping Tool is the ability to capture the whole screen or just a portion by highlighting an area on your screen and \u201ccapturing it\u201d or “snipping it” to insert the captured content into an email, document, power point presentation etc.<\/p>\n

The first thing we must do is find the application called Snipping Tool. The quickest way of finding Snipping Tool is to click on the Windows icon in the lower left corner of screen. Once you click, you can begin typing: \u201csnip\u201d into the menu. You will see the Snipping Tool application appear at the top of the search box. You can now click on it.<\/p>\n

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Once you click on the Snipping Tool you will see a small box (see below) appear, this is the interface for capturing all or part of your screen.<\/p>\n

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Now let\u2019s say we want to capture just a small section of a website and put it in an email to show a colleague. Now we can click on the \u201cNew\u201d tab on the ribbon of the Snipping Tool box as indicated by the red arrow below. When you first click on “New”, the entire screen will become semi-translucent, which indicates that your screen is ready for you to select what you want to capture.<\/p>\n

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As long as you hold the mouse button down, you can resize the area you want to capture. As you\u2019ll see below we highlighted Chemistry Research Building and How to Make Backups for Windows 10 and Mac OS, however, if you look at the next capture below this one you will see we resized the capture area just a bit and just captured Windows and Mac OS backup sections leaving Chemistry Research Building section out of it.<\/p>\n

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Below is the result of the selective capture we just performed.<\/p>\n

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This is basic functionality of the Snipping Tool. With practice, you will be cutting and pasting screen shots like a pro!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of us have had to capture our PC screens at some point for work, school or both. \u00a0It can be a simple or incredibly frustrating experience. With the advent of Snipping Tool,\u00a0this process has become much simpler and certainly more user friendly, as you\u2019ll see in this walk-through tutorial. One of the great features […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-cnsit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}