File menu, Save As. Select JPG from the dropdown.
I open “Paint” and past it there. You can “Crop” the picture if you wish.
OK, I’ve finally achieved my goal. I hope I can remember it all next time I need it! Ha ha
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I don’t know why this has to be so complicated.
Windows: “It’s user-tolerant!”
For the last 15 years or so, I’ve kept a file on hand with instructions for those kinds of “tricks” (list file names, for example). Most are pretty easy to find online, though.
Now that the question’s been answered, I’ll mention a workplace prank that someone told me about in the early 2000s: When the victim is away from his/her computer, you take a screenshot of the desktop and set that image as the screensaver. I was told that the computer would look normal but wouldn’t respond to anything until you pressed the “escape” key. Haven’t tried it, so it could be bullshit.
If you use Firefox or it’s offshoot Waterfox browser you can right click on the web page and from the dialog box select ‘Take Screenshot’. Can’t speak for other browsers. I use Waterfox.
It permits you to select only the area you want to copy. The image gets copied to the clipboard and from there you can do what you want with it. I usually paste it into Irfanview, which is my default image viewer. You can paste the image wherever you wish - into an email, a document . . .
Even if you do a screenshot of the entire screen via the ‘Print Screen’ button on keyboard I believe most free image viewers allow you to crop as desired.
See what I mean?
Snipping tool is exactly that - it’s the “copy” part of copy-and-paste. It has the added benefit, as others mentioned, of being able to do a “File >Save As” and save the snip as a picture (JPG, PNG or GIF)
Another handy hint - it has a delay option (default 0 seconds, or 3,5, or 10 sec). This is handy if I’m explaining a process - like how to use Snipping Tool. You can trigger the delay, and then go do something like open a drop-down menu, and when the delay is up, the screen will freeze with that menu still open. (Otherwise it’s annoying. You open the menu in another application, then click on the snipping tool to take the picture and the menu closes.)
Snipping is also a minor drawing program, it allows you to use a pen (i.e. draw a red arrow pointing to something) or highlighter and then you can save/paste the picture with these annotations included.
I know some people who use snipping tool and one-note like a bulletin board, cut bits from websites about something they are researching, paste them all into One Note, and they have a digital scrapbook of clippings for future perusal. The only downside is it is all image, not text - unless you use a OCR on the image.
This helped me a lot when documenting processes.
Press and hold these keys in sequence:
Win Shift S — to snap a picture
Win Alt R —— to record a video
See my earlier post (12?). I can do that. But my question was how to turn it into a jpg from there.
I’ve since been helped but thanks.