On my Win 10 machine, I first press the prt-scr button and the automatic snipping tool opens. I move the mouse to the upper left corner of whatever rectangular area I want to capture, press the left mouse button and move the mouse to the lower right corner of that rectangle and release the button. That rectangle is now captured into the clipboard from which ctl-v will copy it anywhere you like.
Exactly.
you can snip an area of Google maps that somewhat overlaps the previous snip(s), just don’t change the zoom. Then paste it into Paint, and you have the opportunity to drag it around until the image lines up as precisely as possible with previous pastes - so essentially manual stitching. (Due to the curvature of the earth, too large Google map shot montages won’t line up well.) Sometimes I use the arrow keys for the last final bit of adjustment To do the same with screenprint and cropping would require several iterations of Paint running, or a whole lot of intermediate files, etc.
I was just wondering why you were doing it the hard way when there are so many tools that will do the legwork for you. Some of them for free.