[today’s run: 3.4 miles]
I had a co-worker show me something really neat today.
It is called the Snipping Tool.
He’s been sending me these screenshot emails with an embedded picture of just a bit of the screen. And today he showed me how he does that. It seems to be a regular part of Windows 7, I don’t know if Windows XP had it.
Go to the Start Button, then type ‘sn’ in the “search programs and files” box and the Snipping Tool will come up.
Fire that guy up and you can snip any rectangle on your screen and put it in the clipboard. You can save it as a graphic or you can paste into an email or whatever. Cool stuff. You can also mark it up with a colored pen or a highlighter.
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We have Windows 7 Enterprise at work and I tried it – it works and I love it. This feature should be advertised better. We are e-mailing and documenting with screen images around all the time. (I had been using alt-print screen.)
My thoughts exactly!
I had been using the PrintScreen key, then pasting and cropping in Gimp (graphics/drawing program). That was a pain and I rarely did it.
One thing I wish it did is draw a colored box around my selection. That would set it off from a white document. But I could use the drawing feature or the highlighter, so could be managed.