![]() You do not need the mouse(!):Ī) Move the crosshairs tool using cursor keys (note: additionally hold down Ctrl to make the cursor move faster!), then, when ready to capture,ī) Hold down Shift and move the mouse to capture what you need (again, hold down Ctrl also for much faster movement).Ĭ) On releasing the Shift key, the capture will be taken. Rectangular Snip: F5 to start Snipping Tool, then Alt M then hit r for Rectangular (see underlined 'r' in the pulldown): Desktop dims and crosshairs tool appear. The Snip is added to the clipboard, ready to Ctrl V paste elsewhere and use Alt N will take another Snip of the same type. You do not need the mouse(!):Ī) Move the finger pointer around the screen with cursor keys (note: additionally hold down Ctrl to make the cursor move faster!), different windows will be highlighted with a red border as the finger passes over them then,ī) Press Shift to immediately capture the highlighted Window (or select a Window with Enter then Enter again to confirm). Desktop dims apart from current Window and finger pointer appears. Window Snip: F5 to start Snipping Tool, then Alt M then hit w for Window (see underlined 'w' in the pulldown). To detail this for each option (again, noting that F5 could be something else as above):įull-screen Snip: F5 to start Snipping Tool then Alt M then hit s for Full-screen (see the underlined 's' in the pulldown): Screenshot is taken automatically. If the tool is already open, Alt N allows to take another Snip of the same type last made, and that's it! Note also that holding **Ctrl* while moving the cursor keys will make the pointer move much faster. So, putting this all together, it gets quite simple, when you just remember F5 (if using that as shortcut key for Snipping Tool) to start Snipping Tool (or Alt Tab to tab to it if already open), then Alt M (select Mode), then Cursor Keys to move tool around screen, then Shift Cursor Keys to start the capture (for Rectangular and Free-form). I believe that this covers everything that the OP is asking for, you can now do everything from the keyboard alone. ![]() ![]() Shift cursor keys Move the cursor to select a rectangular snip area.Alt N Create a new snip in the same mode as the last one.Note the Snipping Tool specific shortcut keys (not easily found, but are referenced on a Microsoft page): You can optionally change the key used for this here: Changing this to "Take screen clipping" will make that the default when you double click on this tray icon. You can change the default action when you double-click on the OneNote tray icon by right-clicking on that and going to OneNote icon defaults. Opens a rectangular screen capture (use mouse or cursor keys) to grab a selected area of screen to clipboard (Ctrl-V to paste somewhere as normal). Win Shift S This is the OneNote "Take Screen clipping" function.Alt PrintScreen Capture current Window or dialogue to clipboard (Ctrl-V to paste somewhere as normal).Win PrintScreen Save a Full-screen to an image in the Screenshots folder: C:\Users\\Pictures\Screenshots.Ctrl PrintScreen If Snipping Tool is currently open, will start a Snipping Tool operation, otherwise, acts as a normal PrintScreen above.PrintScreen Saves entire screenshot to clipboard (Ctrl-V to paste somewhere as normal). ![]() Note the default OS screen capture options, quite a lot can be done with these, particularly the OneNote specific Win Shift S ("Take screen clipping" function). Quicker way than above: Just open Start, type "snip" to see the Snipping Tool, right-click on it in Start menu then select "Open file location" which will open Explorer in the folder where the Snipping Tool Start menu shortcut is located, right-click on that and in Properties adjust the shortcut key (I just used F5 here in line with Sant14's post above). Note: Mouse Keys (a function in the Ease of Access tools, as noted above by Peter Pompeii above), are not in any way required for this, and will not help with any of the below.Ĭreate hotkey for Snipping Tool. A lot of good answers here, but I don't see any that directly answer the OP (some mention 3rd party tools, which are great, but it's good to know defaults on a bare system, as asked, so to answer the OP using default key options in Windows ("Is there a way to launch a default snipping action"), here are the options available using just OS hotkeys (except for one, creating a hotkey for Snipping Tool has to be done manually as noted above). ![]()
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