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In Microsoft OneNote,
working with screen clipping tools is a useful way to capture images,
reference articles, portions of a PDF file website, contents,
or other relevant parts of texts that you want to grab quickly. Hi,
I'm Dawn Bjork, The Software Pro. In this training,
we'll look at three easy ways to insert screen clippings into OneNote.
Try these quick ways to capture content with OneNote screen clipping tools.
OneNote screen clipping, Windows Snip and Sketch, OneNote Web Clipper.
The easiest way to grab a screen capture for Microsoft OneNote is to use the
built-in screen clipping tool. First,
open the program or browser window you want to capture before activating the
screen clipping tool. Next, choose Insert and pick Screen Clipping.
Keep in mind, as soon as you activate the tool,
the OneNote window is minimized and the capture mode is enabled.
For that reason,
you may need to do a little setup work before taking a snapshot.
You can see that your mouse changes from pointer to a crosshair. Next,
drag across the area of the screen you want to capture.
Now OneNote inserts the clipping onto the active page in your OneNote notebook.
Finally, you can resize or move the picture as needed.
The Windows Snip and Sketch is the upgrade or replacement for the snipping tool,
which is still also available.
So Snip and Sketch can work directly with OneNote or independently to add
screen captures into other applications.
To create a screen clip to add to OneNote when OneNote is not open,
right-click the OneNote icon in the Windows notification area,
which is on the right-side of the task bar,
and then choose Take screen clipping. Once again,
you can then capture the area or the information
that you want. Next,
the dialog box displays to indicate the OneNote notebook section and
page where you want to add the screen clipping.
If you're in OneNote or in another application,
to create a screen clipping at any time for Windows or specifically OneNote,
press the keyboard shortcut. And that is the Windows key, [Shift] + S.
You'll see a simple tool bar that gives you options for how you will snip
this content. Is it freeform window, snip,
full screen, or the default rectangular or region?
As before,
simply use the crosshairs to grab what you want to capture.
This is now going to the Windows clipboard.
So now I'm back in OneNote. Now,
move to the location where you want to add the screen capture.
This doesn't have to be a OneNote page.
And use your favorite paste command.
Mine is [Ctrl] + V and that will insert the screen clipping.
The OneNote Web Clipper app installs in your browser to save,
annotate, and organize web content. You can install it from OneNote.com/clipper.
This is a free add-in available for the Chrome browser. However,
if you access this link from the Microsoft Edge browser,
you can now install a Chrome add-in within Edge.
So I'll install using the get OneNote Web Clipper for Chrome link.
Follow the steps to enable this add-in.
You can see that the OneNote Web Clipper icon is accessible to the
right of the URL bar.
You may need to go into the extensions option in Chrome to pin the extension to
the address bar. Here,
I'll move into extensions and click on pin so that this is available at any
time. To capture a screen clipping with the OneNote Web Clipper,
from our browser window with content you want to capture,
click the Clip to OneNote icon. If needed,
log into your Microsoft account. Next,
pick what portion of the screen you want to capture.
Notice you can add another region, but in this case,
I'll simply pick the location where I want to drop this
example. There are also other screen capture options you may be familiar with.
So although these options do not let you control the screen area,
you want to clip or capture,
there are two other free ways to grab a screen capture in Microsoft Windows,
the built-in screen capture options are the Print Screen (PrtScn) key,
which copies the entire screen into your Windows clipboard or [Alt} + [PrtScrn]
that captures the current window or dialog box.
Once a screen capture is in the clipboard,
use your favorite paste command to add the captured images to OneNote or other
documents. Additionally,
you might consider a paid screen capture program such as TechSmith's Snagit,
which includes a wide range of choices to format edit and save your screen
clippings.
Which of these tools will you use to grab screen clippings to easily add content
to your Microsoft OneNote notebooks?
Now you've seen how to easily work with screen clipping tools in Microsoft
OneNote.
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The Software Pro. Thanks for watching.