Snipping+in+Win+7


 * Snipping in Win 7 **

One of the newest features to be introduced by Microsoft into their Windows operating system in the past few years, the Snipping tool provides a simple interface with which to capture, and save screen shots in Windows 7.

Best of all, it adds a feature which allows you to draw an outline around only the parts of your screen which you wish to capture; eliminating the need to crop your screen shot in a third party image editing program prior to saving/exporting it into Word, as was required in past versions of Windows.

Simply turn on the Snipping tool in your Start menu, drag your mouse to draw a box around the part of the screen you wish to capture, and the Snipping tool will process your screen shot and present you with a preview window showing your latest capture. Here is where you have the advantages of:- "adventure in image alignment" of your Snipping tool screen capture within Microsoft Word.

Lining up an image in your .doc document can be quite a daunting task.

Below are tips to make that easier :-

Step 1. Perform your screen capture with the Snipping tool as normal. When the Snipping tool screen capture preview window appears, click the "Save Snip" button and save your screen capture Snippet somewhere safe and easy to remember (e.g. your Desktop.)

Step 1-1. For maximum compatibility, choose to save your screen capture Snippet as a .JPG file in the **Save as Type** drop down menu when saving your file.

Step 2. Open the Word document which your screen capture Snippet will be inserted into.

Step 3. Drag and drop your screen capture Snippet into your Word document, at approximately the position where you would like it to be displayed.

Typically your screen capture Snippet will displace your text in ways you do not want, and may actually appear somewhere completely different from where you were hoping to drop it. If this happens, simply drag (again) your screen capture Snippet as near as possible to where you would like to display it.

Step 4. Once your screen capture Snippet is near its intended position, mouse over your image and Right click it to bring up the Word image options context menu.

Step 5. In the Word image option context menu, hover the mouse over "Text Wrapping." In the fly out menu which appears, select "Square." You will see your screen capture Snippet re-align itself so that text now wraps (or "flows") around it.

Step 6. Now that the text is wrapping around your screen capture Snippet, you may want to re-align your image so that the text wraps in a different direction (to the right, left, centre, etc.) To do so, left click your image once and select the **Format** tab from the top menu.

Step 7. Click the **Align** icon, and select the alignment type :- (Left, Right, Center, Top, Bottom, or Middle) which you would like to use. The position of your screen capture Snippet will change accordingly.