

Shift + cursor keys Move the cursor to select a rectangular snip area.Alt + N Create a new snip in the same mode as the last one.Note the Snipping Tool specific shortcut keys (not easily found, but are referenced on a Microsoft page): You can optionally change the key used for this here: Changing this to "Take screen clipping" will make that the default when you double click on this tray icon. You can change the default action when you double-click on the OneNote tray icon by right-clicking on that and going to OneNote icon defaults. Opens a rectangular screen capture (use mouse or cursor keys) to grab a selected area of screen to clipboard (Ctrl-V to paste somewhere as normal). Win + Shift + S This is the OneNote "Take Screen clipping" function.Alt + PrintScreen Capture current Window or dialogue to clipboard (Ctrl-V to paste somewhere as normal).Win + PrintScreen Save a Full-screen to an image in the Screenshots folder: C:\Users\\Pictures\Screenshots.Ctrl + PrintScreen If Snipping Tool is currently open, will start a Snipping Tool operation, otherwise, acts as a normal PrintScreen above.


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A lot of good answers here, but I don't see any that directly answer the OP (some mention 3rd party tools, which are great, but it's good to know defaults on a bare system, as asked, so to answer the OP using default key options in Windows ("Is there a way to launch a default snipping action"), here are the options available using just OS hotkeys (except for one, creating a hotkey for Snipping Tool has to be done manually as noted above).
