

“Alt Key” + “Print Screen”įor capturing the currently active windows you are in, you can hit the “Alt” + “Printscreen” key on your keyboard which screenshots the currently active window and saves it on your clipboard. Pressing the “Windows” + “Print Screen” will directly take the screenshot of the whole screen and save it in a “Screenshots” folder in your “Pictures” folder.
#Windows new snip shortcut windows 10#
I don’t rely on the default snipping tool as I use Snagit as I have other requirements that the default Windows snipping tool does not fulfill.īut I’ll go over some of the best tips and tricks when it comes to using Windows snipping tool shortcuts.īy default windows 10 have some screen capture shortcuts and each serves a different function. You don’t even have to save the file, that makes it super simple and easy to use the Windows Snipping tool shortcut. If you simply need to send screenshots in email, add them to the word document or quickly attach to online messages you are sending, you can directly paste it from the clipboard.įor e.g., if you quickly need to screenshot a part of a page and attached it to the email or insert it in a word document, you can directly do it by screenshotting and hitting “Ctrl” + “v” which is a shortcut to paste. If you need to edit it, you can press on the screenshot notification you receive on the bottom right corner of the screen. As seen in the example below, once the windows snipping tool shortcut is pressed, I can select anything on the screen and after selecting, the screenshot is saved in the clipboard.
