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Snipping Tool

Snipping Tool is a screenshot app. It takes pictures of your PC’s screen. But
Microsoft giveth and taketh away—and in the May 2019 Update, Snipping
Tool has been put on death row. A message lets you know that “Snipping

Tool is moving,” and recommends the hot, young upstart Snip & Sketch,
described on “Settings”.

Snipping Tool still works, though. If you care about it, you can read about it

in the PDF appendix “Snipping Tool.” It’s on this book’s “Missing CD” at
missingmanuals.com.

Steps Recorder

This program (in your Windows Accessories folder) is designed to record

exactly where you’re clicking or tapping, and to capture a screen picture
each time you do so. Why? So you can document some problem you’re

having. You can send the resulting recording to someone who wants to see
exactly what steps you were taking when you ran into trouble.

Of course, this is a similar scenario to the times when you might use Quick

Assist (“Quick Assist”), where the wise scholar can watch you perform the
steps that are frustrating you. But because Steps Recorder lets you type a
little message each time you click the mouse, it’s a better, more permanent

way to record some problem you’re having.

When you’re ready to record the steps, click Start Record. Now do
whatever it is, on your computer, that produces the problem: Click here, use
that menu, drag that slider, whatever. As you go, you can do the following:

Pause the recording. Click Pause Record. (Click Resume Record

to continue.)

Type an annotation for a particular step. (“Here’s where I
double-clicked.”) Click Add Comment, highlight the part of the

screen you want to comment on, type your note into the box, and
then click OK.