Snip & Sketch is the replacement for the aging Snipping Tool. With the new Snip & Sketch tool in Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) and later versions, you can take screenshots, annotate them, and share.
As far as features are concerned, Screen Sketch tool is more or less like the Snipping Tool but offers more annotate options. Like the classing Snipping Tool, it offers freeform clip, rectangular clip, and full-screen clip modes.
Users who often need to take screenshots prefer to use keyboard shortcuts over the mouse. If you also love to launch and use Snip & Sketch with the help of keyboard shortcuts, you will be happy to know that Snip & Sketch offers keyboard shortcuts to open and access its features.
Following are the keyboard shortcuts available in Snip & Sketch.
Keyboard shortcuts to open Snip & Sketch In Windows 10
Windows + Shift + S – Launch Snip & Sketch
Print Screen (PrtScn) – Open Snip & Sketch
After opening a new clip, use Tab key to navigate between available modes and then press Enter key to select the mode.
NOTE: With default settings, Windows 10 doesn’t open Snip & Sketch clip when you press the PrtScn key. You need to configure Windows 10 to open Snip & Sketch when the PrtScn key is pressed. Refer to our use Print Screen key to open Snip & Sketch in Windows 10 guide for step-by-step directions.
Other keyboard shortcuts for Snip & Sketch in Windows 10
Alt + N – Open Snip & Sketch snip
Alt + O – Open file
Ctrl + O – Open file (alternative)
Alt + U – Undo
Ctrl + Z – Undo
Ctrl + Y – Redo
Alt + U – Undo
Alt + D – Redo
Alt + T – Select touch writing
Alt + B – Select ballpoint pen
Alt + P – Select pencil
Alt + H – Select highlighter
Alt + E – Select eraser
Alt + R – Crop
Alt + S – Save
Alt + C – Copy
Alt + A – Share
Alt + M – See more tools
Ctrl + P – Print
These are the keyboard shortcuts that are currently available in Snip & Sketch tool. We will update this article if and when Microsoft adds more keyboard shortcuts.
Matt says
1. Completely agree with Brent! No zoom in/out with extremely zoomed in screenshot makes cropping tedious.
Snip & Sketch should add a zoom in/out control somewhere.
2. When preparing certain documents one of the things you do frequently is capture a window image. The snipping tool had a window selection option that made this a one click operation. Snip & Sketch does not, you have to take a full screenshot and crop it, or draw a rectangle around the window of interest. Either way you go, it takes longer to capture a window image than it did with the snipping tool, and the results won’t be as clean and consistent.
Snip & Sketch should add a window snip option.
Sam Orez says
Alt + F4 will close the Snip & Sketch window if it is active
Brent says
THERE”S NO WAY TO ZOOM IN/OUT! I am a new user to Snip & Sketch and this is a deal breaker. The photo that was opened is so zoomed in and there’s no way to zoom out. not good.
Ctrl + Scroll wheel doesn’t work
Ctrl + hyphen (-) doesn’t work
There is no right click option
No View menu to select zoom %. This is terrible…
Carlo Gesualdo says
Can you close Snip & Sketch with a keystroke?
Julia Ann says
Nice post for Windows 10 Keyboard Shortcuts.
Windows 10 users should know these secrets keys.