I have Windows 10 Pro. I'm a science teacher and a frequent user of the in-built snipping tool in Windows 10 Pro. I often create screen-shots of small parts of my screen to make "how-to" documents for my students. The "current-window-screen-shot" feature includes too much information. I'm only interested in the tiny portions of GeoGebra-calculations.
Currently I do as follows:
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Windows button + S
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Type
snipping tool
then press Enter. The application opens (or use your own custom hotkey-combination to open this app) -
Choose New then select portion of the screen
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Press Ctrl+C
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Open a Word document
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Press Ctrl+V
Since everything is done from the keyboard this procedure is pretty fast. But in OS-X it's only a 3-step procedure:
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Cmd+Ctrl+Shift+4 then select portion of the screen
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Open Word document
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Cmd+V
Without buying a Mac (we only have PCs at work), what is the fastest possible way to take a screen shot of select a portion of the screen?
Best Answer
You can pin Snipping Tool to the Windows Taskbar if you use it frequently and assign a keyboard shortcut such as Ctrl + Alt + S.
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Maybe you can use a script like this:
How to Automatically Take a Screenshot and Open it in a Editor?
How to Start Snipping Tool in Capture Mode by Default?