Windows 10: Ease up your support life with Snip & Sketch

So it was recently when I found out windows has this tool that I actually always used 3rd party tools to achieve its results .

The tool is called Snip & Sketch , is an APP and its main purpose is to snap out portions of your screen and save it as an image in lite weight , almost no load time & fewer clicks .

And the next thing you can upload snaps of the problem you have so people can really gather what you are talking about instead of having to read tens of lines in an accent and yet usually never get what you mean *Smile

So basically Snip & Sketch is a windows App that can be easily accessed from Start Menu or Search :




By default you can use the new button to start a new screen snap by simply clicking the new button then doing a rectangle selection for the area in question :




Yet once running you will notice you have other basic features you need like :



1 - On The Fly Marker(s)
2 - Save
3 - Settings (Where its actually important for you can use it to toggle the APP through PrtSc on keyboard as a hotkey)

So once inside Settings you should toggle the active link that'd direct you to where to enable PrtSc key to become the hot key for Snip & Sketch :




Where you scroll down to find the option and toggle it :




Now life starts becoming simpler
1 - You rather press PrtScr on keyboard
2 - Do a rectangle select of the issue or where you are stuck
3 - Then hit Save

and you have a nice image to Upload to your support post .

Cheers

*Cool

:)

 

Snip & Sketch keeps overriding clipboard

Hi Amanda,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

I understand the inconvenience you are facing with the Snip and Sketch app on Windows 10.

Provide us additional information to assist you better with this issue:

1. Which version of Windows is running on your device?
   

Refer the article Which Windows operating system am I running to know about
the information.

Here are the few steps you can try to fix the issue.

Method 1

Refer the article Fix problems with apps from Microsoft Store
and try the suggested steps and check if the issue still persists. If the issue still persists try with the method 2.

Method 2

Reset Snip & Sketch app

1. Press Windows + I key and click on
   Apps.
   
2. Click on Apps & features. Select Sketch & Snip app from the available list of installed apps.
   
3. Click on Snip & Sketch > Advanced Options.
   
4. Click on Reset option.
   
5. Restart the computer once and check the status of the issue.
   
6. Let us know if the issue still persists.
   

Hope it helps. Get back to us for further assistance on this issue. We will be happy to help you.

Muralidhar

Microsoft Community Forums

 

Snip and Sketch Awkward

Use Windows+shift+s to launch Snip and Sketch. Can snip a screenshot.

Now the problem is this: after snipping the screen shot, it does not automatically appear in the Snip and Sketch app. So I open Snip and Sketch and there's nothing on it.

So I have choose 'new' and snip the screen yet again.

I recall using this once and taking a screenshot and voila! Snip and Sketch appeared with the screen shot duly in the app's workspace, ready for annotations and saving etc. This facility has disappeared. I have re-set it according to instructions, and even
reinstalled it - yet the problem persists.

Would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks

 

Snip & Sketch

It's the Snipping Tool that's being phased out, not Snip & Sketch. FWIW, I just used the latter tool and was able to paste the snip into a Word (Office 365) document. There was a point in the past when for reasons unknown, opening Word would clear the
clipboard. If you're using an older version, you might want to try opening the document first, before taking a screenshot.

If you prefer to use Snipping Tool, all you have to do (as I suggested earlier) is open the Start Menu and type snip.