OneNote Snipper Tool

Those of you who've bought, or obtained, a copy of Microsoft Office (now only £40 for Ultimate for students) have probably installed a little program by the name of OneNote along with it, and then never even opened it or used it.

It's a great little tool for note-taking/scrapbooking, with simply awesome OCR abilities (even on video), but I've just discovered a little feature it has that's made my day.

The feature's a simple drag and drop to screenshot just a part of your current screen - something I do daily, but previously I've been going down the long-winded route of Print Screen > Open Paint > Copy > Select Region > Cut.

Now I simply press Windows Key & S, and then drag and drop, to get the item on my Clipboard. It also opens up OneNote and dumps it in there by default too, but I don't really want OneNote open most of the time, so I choose to just copy my clipping to the clipboard. Here's how (to quote a message from my junk e-mail folder; 'click to enlarge'):


_{Guess what tool I used to get that screenshot? :)}