create keyboard shortcut for snipping tool

Unable to take screenshots of menus with Snipping Tool? As but the time we click 'New', the menu is out of focus. But you might have noticed that you cannot take screenshots of menus. This is ok if we are taking screenshots of regular window. Depending on the mode selected, the snip can be taken.

Usually, after starting the Snipping Tool, we can click on the 'New' button on the tool to take snips. How to use shortcut key to start the snipping operation?

Press the keys on the keyboard that you want to set as the shortcut combination.

Click on the ShortCut tab and click on the ShortCut text box.

Right-click on the shortcut and click on Properties.

A Windows Explorer window will open where you can find a shortcut for the Snipping Tool.

Right-Click on the Snipping Tool, and click 'Open File Location'.

Select the Start button, type snipping tool in the search box.

Setting shortcut key to start Snipping Tool

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

To take screenshot of portion of desktop window, choose 'Rectangular Strip'.

Full-screen snip: Capture the entire screen.

Window snip: Select a window, such as a browser window or dialog box, that you want to capture.

Rectangular snip: Drag the cursor around an object to form a rectangle.

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

Snipping Tool is a screenshot utility included in Windows Vista and later. If Print screen is not your choice of taking screenshots, use Windows Snipping Tool instead. So, as you can see, using the Print Screen, though simple, requires some additional work to be done to save or get the image. If only a particular region of the desktop is required, we can use the crop tool to take out only that particular portion and save the image. Normally, on Windows Computer, people generally paste screenshots taken with Print Screen on Microsoft Paint program to edit further. So, we have to put it in an image editor or other programs (such as Microsoft Word Document) to see the image taken. But it captures the entire desktop window and also, the captured image is in the clipboard (computer memory). On any computer keyboard there is a 'Print Screen' key to take the screenshot of the entire desktop window. In this post, we will discuss how to use the Windows default Snipping Tool for the purpose of taking screenshots and how to use shortcut to take screenshots using the Snipping Tool without the need to install any third part software. I being a blogger, I use screenshots a lot for my blog posts. There may come a time when a Windows user might need to take screenshots of desktop to capture the whole desktop window or just a region to put it in documents or save as image.

Create keyboard shortcut for snipping tool