Capture Menu

You can easily capture a drop down menu by pressing [Ctrl][Shift][W] and selecting the open menu. This example shows the MWSnap capture menu.

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Adding a new mouse pointer

Click the drop down arrow next to the Add a mouse cursor icon in the editing toolbar to add a mouse pointer. Choose from one of 20 mouse pointers that can be added to any screen capture.

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Capture a Window Pane or Parts of the Desktop

You can easily capture only a pane or panes of a window or parts of the desktop, i.e. the taskbar, by pressing [Ctrl][Shift][W] and selecting the pane or desktop item. The following screen shots capture panes of the Windows Explorer window.

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Capture explorer

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Capture Stacked Windows

The following example shows two two stacked windows. Capturing the bottom window captures both windows. In this example two different views in Windows Explorer are shown.

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The ruler tool

The ruler tool measures the mouse cursor position, in pixels, horizontally or vertically. Click on the hole in the ruler to open the menu. In this example, the mouse cursor is at pixel position 110 horizontally.

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The Zoom tool

The Zoom tool lets you zoom in on any section of the desktop.

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Color picker tool

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The Window Info Tool

Select a window or an item in a window to get information.

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Settings | General Tab

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Settings | Snapping Tab

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Settings | Auto-saving Tab

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Settings | Fixed sizes Tab

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Settings | Appearance Tab

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Settings | Sound Tab

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System-wide Hot keys

The hot-keys for the five snapping modes and four tools can be reassigned and deactivated.

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The View Tab

Click on the View tab to quickly view and review your captured images. Note: Text and lines must be added in an image editor.

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