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Today’s tip: Create Shortkeys for Windows Tools
Category: Keyboarding
Q: I love the Windows snipping tool, but it takes too long to activate. Is there a shortkey?
A: Oddly, there isn’t, which is why I didn’t use it for a long time. I want a screen capture that’s instantaneous. I discovered how to create a shortkey for Snipping Tool—or any Windows program:
- Right click on the program icon.
- Select ‘properties’.
- Select the ‘shortcut’ tab.
- In the ‘Shortcut key’ field, push the key combination you want to invoke this program. In my case, for the Snipping Tool, I used Ctrl+Alt+X.
- Click OK
Here’s a video on how to create the shortkey. Now all I have to do is remember the shortkey!
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
