Cute, huh? Now what? Yes, you can send this document as an attachment in an email or you could copy both images straight into the email. You’re not a graphic artist, so you probably open Word, click on “insert – clip art”, search for just the right smiley face, and add a call out to it. You want to send a congratulations message in a visual format. jpg pictures is another super duper use of the Snipping Tool. You can snip full-screens (including your toolbars), snip a window, snip in a rectangle or snip free-form. The beauty of the Snipping Tool is that you can copy onto a word doc (or Excel etc.), or you can save it as a jpg. The Snipping Tool has become a security blanket of sorts. I use the Snipping Tool religiously because I like to have a copy of that non-email email before I hit the submit button. Have you ever filled out a form online and wanted a copy just in case you didn’t get a receipt or confirmation with all the details? Or how about when you’re submitting a question or an on-line trouble ticket to a company? Sometimes trying to print from a web page can be difficult. If I had taken a full screenshot with another program, I would have had to save them, crop the images, and then save them again.

I found the company website, used the tool to outline the objects I wanted to snip and copied them into this word doc.

For example, all the images on this post were procured with the Snipping Tool.

Sometimes you don’t want an entire screen shot. Granted, there are a lot of programs out there, free and paid versions, that offer screenshots as a function of their programs, such as Evernote (which I use too for other purposes), but the Snipping Tool has unique benefits. The Snipping Tool is a program (now an app on laptops) that allows you to take screenshots. Please note that the Snipping Tool should not be confused with Snip.ly, which is an awesome social media marketing tool (to be discussed in a separate post). The Snipping Tool by Microsoft is a tool that I use multiple times daily. The Snipping Tool – One of Life’s Essentials

The Top 8 Reasons Why I Use the Snipping Tool By Barbra Wolfe

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