Windows – Fastest way to screen-shot part of screen in Windows 10

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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:

  1. Windows button + S

  2. Type snipping tool then press Enter. The application opens (or use your own custom hotkey-combination to open this app)

  3. Choose New then select portion of the screen

  4. Press Ctrl+C

  5. Open a Word document

  6. 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:

  1. Cmd+Ctrl+Shift+4 then select portion of the screen

  2. Open Word document

  3. 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

  1. Open Snipping Tool
  2. Press Ctrl + Print Screen (This starts a Rectangular snip -- select a portion of the screen)
  3. Save the file.

You can pin Snipping Tool to the Windows Taskbar if you use it frequently and assign a keyboard shortcut such as Ctrl + Alt + S.

(or)

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?

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