Snipping Tool Margin

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  1. bhs67
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    Snipping Tool Margin


    There is a lot of unnecessary white area around the image that is captured with the Snipping Tool. How does one reduce the size of the margin inside the Snipping Tool?
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  3. ThrashZone
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    Hi and welcome to SevenForums,
    I would say use the rectangle snip option instead,
    Then drag around the area as you wish,
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  4. whs
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    Here is a little video tutorial I made the other day for a friend of my wife. This is the Windows 8.1 version, but the operational part is the same in Windows 7. Maybe it helps.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gs5GelHi5s
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  6. Layback Bear
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    Another great tutorial.
    That should take the mystery out of the snipping tool.
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  7. bhs67
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    I should have been more specific. Yes, if I save it, the margins are gone. However, when I capture, before I save, the margins are there.

    I use Snipping Tool to temporarily capture some settings ... allows me to do a comparison (saving and opening the saved file are two more steps). The wide margin consumes screen real estate ... unnecessarily.
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  8. whs
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    Sorry but I am a bit lost. Can you post an example and explain on it what the problem is.
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  10. whs
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    Layback Bear said:
    Another great tutorial.
    That should take the mystery out of the snipping tool.
    Thanks Jack, but that was really not intended as a general tutorial. The wife's friend had just asked for a helping hand and I wipped that up in a few minutes. For a general tutorial I would probably redo it because I was stuttering at a couple of places.
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  11. Layback Bear
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    Well thank your friend also for sharing the tutorial.

    I would also like to look at bhs67 snapshot post because I'm not understanding either.
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  12. DavidE
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    This is a screen print of the snipping tool window - before the snip is saved.
    The text in the red rectangle is what I selected with the snipping tool.
    The OP would like to make all the white space around the actual snip smaller.
    It's apx 1" "white borders" around the actual snip.

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  13. derekimo
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    I think they are talking about this white background around the snip before it is saved,
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