A simple toolbar will appear at the top of the document that provides you with several options for snipping your content. You can also create a screen clipping for OneNote or any other application by using the keyboard shortcut Win + Shift + S. If you’re not entirely sure where it should go, or you’d like to save it to another application, you can also choose Copy to Clipboard to preserve the content to transfer later. Navigate to the appropriate section and page in the file and click Send to Selected Location in the lower left-hand corner of the dialog box. You’ll be prompted to pick a location in a OneNote Notebook to send your content. Once you’ve made your selection, the Select Location in OneNote dialog box will open.

Your mouse icon will once again change from a pointer to a cursor, and you can select the content you’d like to capture with it. From the resulting dropdown menu, you’ll want to select Take screen clipping. You can use Snip & Sketch easily even when OneNote is not open by right-clicking the OneNote icon in the Windows notification area (located on the right-hand side of the taskbar). Snip & Sketch is an upgraded version of Screen Clipper that is also built into OneNote. You can also resize it in OneNote, as necessary. Use the mouse to move the picture as needed.

When you do, the application will insert that selection into the active page in your OneNote notebook. Use your mouse to select the area of the screen you’d like to capture. Once you do, OneNote will automatically be minimized while Screen Clipping is activated and your mouse takes the form of a cross. Then select Insert, and from the Ribbon, click Screen Clipping. Before you open the built-in tool, make sure that you open the document or file you want to capture. The easiest way to grab content is by using Screen Clipper.

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