Newk's
Nook: For those of you who don't use Snagit or Print Screen to
add screen shots to applications, Vista tries to help you out.
Windows Vista has a neat, built-in software program called the Snipping Tool that enables you to grab little clippings of either words or images, annotate them, and then add them to a variety of Windows Vista, documents. (Note that this feature is not available in the Home Basic version of Vista.)
To clip with the Windows Snipping Tool, follow these steps:
1. Choose Start --> All Programs --> Accessories --> Snipping Tool.
2. In the Snipping Tool window that appears, click the down-arrow on the New button and choose a snip mode from the drop-down list:
Free Form Snip lets you draw any old kind of line you like, such as a triangle, to define what you want to snip.
Rectangular Snip does what it says: When you click and drag over a region, it forms a rectangular snip.
Window Snip allows you to select an active window to snip.
Full-Screen Snip takes the entire enchilada, capturing the whole screen in the wink of an eye.
3. If you chose Free Form or Rectangular in Step 2, click and drag on the desktop or in a document to form an area to snip.
If you chose Windows, click on the window you want to snip.
If you chose Full-Screen, the snip happens automatically.
4. In the mark-up window that appears, use the Pen, Highlighter, and Eraser tools to mark up the image.
5. Click the Save Snip button that looks like a computer disk to display the Save As dialog box.
Enter a filename, and specify the location in which to save the file.
6. Click Save.