Ever wanted to include a screenshot in your email?
For instance, when requesting technical support or providing it, it often can be handy to include screenshots directly in your email message to clarify an issue or to provide instructions.
Outlook/Office 2010 introduced a cool new feature to quickly insert a screenshot or a clipping, but even if you are not using Outlook 2010 or later, it is still easy to quickly insert a good looking screenshot in an email.
While inserting a screenshot in your email message body is already possible since HTML formatted emails, it is still a welcome addition to Outlook 2010 (and also exists in Outlook 2013 and 2016) and is easy to use.
In this video you will learn how to capture screen shot and how to crop that in windows just by pressing print screen key click this link for more details ht. The Available Windows gallery appears, showing you all the windows that you currently have open. Do one of the following: To insert a screenshot of an entire window into your document, click the thumbnail image of that window. To add a selected portion of the first window shown in the Available Windows gallery, click Screen Clipping; when the screen turns white and the pointer becomes a cross.
Below you'll also find other methods to insert a screenshot which works in previous versions of Outlook as well and instructions how to crop the screenshot afterwards if needed.
Screenshot feature in Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016
Currently we do not have a way to crop within Drawboard PDF. If you want to take a screenshot/snapshot you can do so using this feature within the Windows operating system. You can then edit this to the size that you need and insert the image into Drawboard PDF. To crop a screenshot on Windows, here's how: Step 1. Open Start, search for Paint and click the top result to open the app. Then, click File, select the Open option,. Open a graphics editing program to edit your screenshot. If you don't have a graphics program.
You can find the Screenshot option on the Insert tab. When clicking the button, you'll get a gallery of screens of all running applications which aren't in a minimized state. Clicking any of these screens will insert a full image of that application.
If you only want to insert a section of your screen, you can select the option Screen Clipping. The current message will automatically minimize so you'll have a clear view of the underlying windows.
Inserting a screenshot or clipping has been made real easy in Outlook 2010.
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PrtScn keyboard button
Most keyboards these days still hold a key labeled 'PrtScn' or 'Print Screen' which is the classic way to create a screenshot. Originally, this key directly printed your screen output to a printer.
Nowadays, when you press this button, it will take a Full Screen screenshot of your current screen and will copy it to the Windows Clipboard. You can then paste it into your message (or any other application which supports pasting images) via CTRL+V.
When you hold the ALT button while pressing the PrntScn button, you'll create a screenshot of the active window only, instead of your entire screen.
On a Surface tablet with a Touch Cover or a Type Cover keyboard, you can use the keyboard shortcut FN+Spacebar for the Print Screen function and FN+Spacebar+ALT to get the CTRL+PrtScn behavior.
The Print Screen key is traditionally located above the navigation keys but can be located elsewhere on laptop-size keyboards.
Windows Key + PrtScn keyboard shortcut
In Windows 8 and Windows 10, you can use the keyboard shortcut Windows Key + PrtScn to directly create a Full Screen screenshot which is saved as a png-file in your PicturesScreenshots folder.
On a Surface tablet, you can achieve this by holding the Windows Key on the front of the tablet itself and pressing the Volume Down button on the side of the tablet. If you have your keyboard attached, you can also use the Windows button on your keyboard + FN + Space bar.
Screenshot of part of your screen
On Windows 10, you can also take a screenshot of part of your screen via the keyboard shortcut; Windows Key + SHIFT + S.
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The selection is then copied to your Clipboard so that you can paste it into your email via CTRL+V.
Cropping the inserted screenshot afterwards
If the inserted screenshot shows too much of the screen, you can crop it until it only shows the part that you want. You can activate the Crop feature in the following way;
- Select the image, select the Format tab and then click on the top part of the Crop button.
Once cropping is enabled, you can drag the center edges and corners of the inserted screenshot to remove those parts of the screenshot. This is similar to normally dragging the edges or corners to resize the image.
Upon sending, the non-visible areas of the image are automatically (and permanently) removed so the receiver cannot 'recover' the rest of your screenshot and still see the things which you wanted to hide.
You can crop an inserted screenshot of for instance a web page to only keep the section that you want to show to the recipient.
Windows Snipping Tool, OneNote and other applications
There are of course many other ways to create and insert a screenshot. Some of my favorites are;
Snipping Tool
Windows also has the Snipping Tool to take screenshots. Aside from a Full Screen and (active) Window screenshot option, it also offers to create a screen clipping and even a free hand selection. This is how we do piano notes. The Snipping Tool also contains a basic editor with, amongst others, the option to annotate it and send it as an email.
The Windows Snipping Tool offers 4 different ways to create a screenshot.
OneNote
OneNote also contains a screenshot feature which can be activated via the keyboard Windows+SHIFT+S.
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After selecting what to include in the screenshot, OneNote will ask you what to do with the taken screenshot. There is an option 'Copy to Clipboard' so you can easily paste it in your email.
OneNote also holds a screenshot creation feature which
can be used for other applications as well.
3rd party tools
If you need more than just a simple screenshot feature, you can consider using SnagIt which is a fully featured screenshot manager. Aside from automatically keeping a history of taken screenshots, it also offers you to take screenshots of scrolling windows such as a long web page.
Jing is another screenshot tool which is offered for free and allows you to directly upload and share your taken screenshot. It will also keep a history of taken screenshots and has an option to create short screen recordings (videos) as well.
