How to take Screenshots and use Snipping Tool to edit Screenshots on Laptop

Now, people used to work mostly on their laptops and keep their business related and personal data in their laptops and are making their lives more comfortable by using technology. Like on your mobile phones you may also take screenshots on your laptop and edit them using the Snipping tool.

In this article we will discuss how to take screenshots and use Snipping Tool to take and edit screenshots on your Laptop, we will guide you with most easy and simple methods.

How to take Screenshots and use Snipping Tool to edit Screenshots on a Laptop

We may take screenshots on Laptop in different ways. Here are these ways described.

Use of Keyboard Shortcut Keys

The most easy and quick way to take screenshots on laptop is to take screenshots with keyboard shortcut keys. Here is how this method works:

1. Press the Print Screen or PrtScr key to take a screenshot of the entire screen.
2. The entire screen's screenshot will automatically be saved into Windows Clipboard.
3. You may paste the screenshot of your full screen into Paint, Word or in any other app.
4. And if you want to take the screenshot of any active window, select the window that you want to capture.
5. Now, press the Alt and PrtScr keys at the same time.
6. Screenshot will be taken and saved into the clipboard of your Laptop.

Use of Snipping Tool

You may use Snipping Tool pre-installed in your laptop to take and edit screenshots. Here is how to use it:

1. In Window's search box type Snip, and choose Snipping Tool from the given options.
2. In Snipping, to take a screenshot, click on New.
3. Now, move the crosshair to where you need to take the screenshot and drag it to select an area.
4. If you want to cancel this screenshot, press the short key Esc before clicking.
5. To save the screenshot click the Save Snip icon.
6. You may save your screenshots in PNG and JPEG format.

So, this was an easy guide for you to learn how to take screenshots on Laptop and how to use Snipping Tool to take and edit screenshots on your Laptop.

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