Using the Snipping Tool with a HotKey

Windows, very fortunately, has some great HotKey functionality already built in for users to customise. Possibly the only downside we can see is that to use the HotKey functionality you have to create a shortcut on your desktop for the snipping tool. A small price to pay may be.

Anyway here are the steps to setting up a HotKey for the snipping tool.

1) If you haven’t already create a shortcut on your desktop for the snipping tool. The quickest way to do this is to Right Click on the snipping tool in the Start Menu and select ‘Send To’, ‘Desktop (Create Shortcut)’. A new icon should appear on your desktop for the snipping tool.

2) Right click on the icon and select ‘Properties’

3) In the Properties dialog, select the Shortcut window and click in the Shortcut Key box.

4) Simply hit the key on your keyboard that you wish to use as your Snipping Tool hotkey e.g. F and the Shortcut Key box will populate with ‘Ctrl + Alt + F’

5) Finally click on OK to save the Hotkey

You can test your new HotKey by holding down the Ctrl and Alt keys and hitting your selected key 🙂