Tech Tips for Writers #105: Create Shortkeys for any Windows Tool
Tech Tips for Writers is an (almost) weekly post on overcoming Tech Dread. I’ll cover issues that friends, both real-time and virtual, have shared. Feel free to post a comment about a question you have. I’ll cover it in a future Tip.
Q: I love the Windows snipping tool, but it takes too long to get to. Is there a shortkey?
A: Oddly, there isn’t, which is why I’ve never used it. I want a screen capture that’s instantaneous. Jing is even too slow for me (though I tolerate it because of all its very cool annotations).
Then I discovered how to create a shortkey:
Go to Start–accessories
Right click on ‘snipping tool’
Select ‘properties’
Click in ‘shortcut’ (I never knew that field was there. Maybe they added it with Win 7)
Push the key combination you want to use to invoke the snipping tool. In my case, I used Ctrl+Alt+S
Save
Now all I have to do is remember the shortkey!
Did I mention this works for any tool?
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Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular Building a Midshipman , the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. She is webmaster for six blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for Examiner.com and TeachHUB, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, Cisco guest blog, Technology in Education featured blogger, IMS tech expert, and a bi-monthly contributor to Today’s Author. In her free time, s he is the editor of a K-8 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum, and creator of technology training books for how to integrate technology in education. Currently, she’s editing a thriller that should be out to publishers next summer. Contact Jacqui at her writing office or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.
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