What is that option supposed to do for you? I can't tell if it works for me or not as I have no idea what it should do.Snipping tool option set to "Show screen overlay when Snipping Tool is active"... doesn't.At least mine doesn't, I have to click "new" to activate it.
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But then you get the whole page & have to open paint/paste/edit/cut/paste?new/save (or something like that lol)...etc to get just the desired copy of the drop-down or popup menu only.
This is how I usually snip things to illustrate drop-down menu's etc...
Use the Windows 7 Snipping Tool to Capture Popup Menus
In this case the popup dialogue box was from the Snipping tool itself so I had to use ctrl/prtscrn etc... the dialogue box needed to be closed before snipping tool would work in the first place. Sort of a Catch-22
Last edited by EarthBoundMisfit; 06 Oct 2014 at 18:07.
Here's how you snip a region of a popup:
- Run Snipping tool
- click on the drop down arrow next to "New"
- Select "Rectangular snip" then press <ESC>
- display the Popup you want to snip
- Crtl + Print Screen then click and drag on the region.
Oh, okay, I get it on that but, here's what I did; I pressed Ctrl and PrtScn and the Snipping Tool popped up with the overlay and crosshairs ready to go! Only worked once though!
BTW, you can eliminate steps 2 and 3.
Last edited by Edwin; 06 Oct 2014 at 18:34.
Also, Ctrl/PrntScrn is what needs to be used in Modern. It transfers the snipping tool over to that UI.
Esc is also used if the snipping tool is active to deactivate in case you want to redo something.
Last edited by Tony K; 06 Oct 2014 at 18:51.
2 and 3 are needed if Rectangular region was not selected previouslyBTW, you can eliminate steps 2 and 3.
That's why on the next capture, you only need step 4 and 5
Last edited by topgundcp; 06 Oct 2014 at 18:53.
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