


In case you’ve been looking for the old Snipping Tool, it’s still there and it still works, but its days are numbered. Choosing one places the screenshot on your clipboard and enables you to open it in the newly available Snip and Sketch app with basic editing and annotating features. Your choices (from left to right in Figure 1) include a rectangular and a funky free-style form, the active dialog or window, and the complete screen. If your keyboard doesn’t have a PrintScreen key, open the On-Screen Keyboard app by typing “On-Screen” in the Windows search field, click on the link that is displayed, and use the virtual key from there.įigure 2: The old Snipping Tool in Windows is moving Pressing WinKey+PrintScreen automatically saves the complete screen as a graphic file under Pictures> Screenshots. This process saves the screenshot to your clipboard, and from there you can paste it into a document or a graphics program to further modify it. Alt+PrintScreen for the active dialog window.Windows offers a number of “traditional ways” to take screenshots with the following key combinations:
SNAGIT SCREENSHOT WITH CURSOR MANUAL
For instance, you might have to replace the source-language graphics in a software manual with those in the target language (assuming the software is already translated and functional). Screenshots are pictures of the complete or partial computer screen, and taking screenshots is often part of a translator’s job description.
