Snip tool for Windows

 

Snip Tool For Windows

The windows snipping tool is one of my most used tool. The snipping tool is great for screen grabs when you cannot capture a window or information on your screen. Some uses for the snipping tool are:

  • Capturing error screens that can be useful to IT.
  • Quickly grabbing a section, image or graph of a document that you want to compare or forward to someone via e-mail.
  • Quickly capture an email that you want to keep for your records.

I recently did a paper in my Emergency Preparedness class. In the paper, I added this map with community risk level of the county I live in. I found this graph on a website that I used the snipping tool to capture for my paper; I was also able to outline the county I was using as an example.

A helpful way to access the snipping tool is instead of searching for the app in the windows section, a keyboard shortcut “windows key+Shift+S” pulls up the tool quickly.

Comments

  1. dkmr88February 15, 2026 at 10:49 AM

    Your blog about the snipping tool is great and I feel very true. It is used so much in industry that this blog explanation of how to use is fantastic. Your example is great on how you increased your training class by using the tool. How many people do you think that still do not know this tool exists? I have talked to many people asking about them using this snipping tool and they had no idea that it was even an option. I think this blog needs to have a lot more distribution because this snipping tool can be such a time saver and enchancement.

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  2. Gaea McTíreFebruary 15, 2026 at 8:58 PM

    Guess what? Some PCs have a dedicated Snipping Tool button. Mine does! It's called Print Screen (PRT SCR on the button). I had to learn how to use it, since I was so used to Macs. One important thing I discovered is when trying to edit and mark up screenshots, once you save it, that mark is there permanently, with no way to remove it or change it. You can see an example of that on my blog post this week, where I used a red arrow. Screenshots are an invaluable teaching tool, as well, especially when publishing tutorials. I'm so glad you talked about it on your blog this week!

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