OneNote Screen Clippings

[poweruser]

You should be able to resize the screen clipping rectangle before capturing
the screen clip in OneNote. Now, you only have one shot at getting your
clipping.

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[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

You should be able to resize the screen clipping rectangle before
capturing
the screen clip in OneNote. Now, you only have one shot at getting your
clipping.

While creating the screen clipping if you've made an error just click
anywhere to cancel it and start over.

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-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote/Outlook
Operations Coordinator
Stockholm/KSG - Honolulu
Microsoft OneNote FAQ:
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/schorr/computers/onenotefaq.htm

 

[John Waller]

I think the point of the feature request is that ON should not need us to
start over if we've got the clipping selection slightly wrong by a few
pixels after we've initially dragged out a border selection.

i.e. after dragging the initial marquee, we should be able to grab a marquee
handle and tweak/nudge the marquee selection before committing the screen
clipping to OneNote.

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

I think the point of the feature request is that ON should not need us to
start over if we've got the clipping selection slightly wrong by a few
pixels after we've initially dragged out a border selection.
i.e. after dragging the initial marquee, we should be able to grab a
marquee
handle and tweak/nudge the marquee selection before committing the screen
clipping to OneNote.

Fair enough, I'm simply pointing out that there is a workaround for now.

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-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote/Outlook
Operations Coordinator
Stockholm/KSG - Honolulu
Microsoft OneNote FAQ:
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/schorr/computers/onenotefaq.htm

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

ON's screen clipping isn't a substitute for a more powerful image editor -
it's supposed to be quick and dirty not perfect, so a few pixels shouldn't
matter. If you need the image tweaked later for use in a document, open it
in a real editor and trim it (select, copy and paste)


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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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[John Waller]

it's supposed to be quick and dirty not perfect, so a few pixels shouldn't

matter.

Understood (but a few pixels do matter to me ), and I use SnagIt for
most of my screenshots in other applications
http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/default.asp

I don't expect SnagIt's capabilities to be found in ON but I'm so used to
being able to adjust my marquee before committing to a screenshot that I'm
still quite surprised to find that ON captures the screenshot as soon as I
release the mouse button.

I only mention it because, as a programming layman, it doesn't seem to be a
quantum leap in the ability of the screen clipping feature but would be
extremely handy.

 

[Jon Z]

I completely agree with John's perspective. Tray real-estate is scarce. I
only want ONE screen clipping icon there.

The OneNote clip UI (graying out the screen and ungraying the selected area)
is GREAT. It would be my clip utility of choice, if not for it's other
anomoly that drives me crazy: its tooltip bubble. I want that info, but I
want the bubble TO IMMEDIATELY GO AWAY when I move the cursor to that area to
include in a clip. Now I have wait (what seems minutes) for the bubble to
timeout so I can complete the clip.

 

[MisterB]

It would be nice if, instead of the small crosshairs that ON provides, the
crosshairs extended full-screen top-to-bottom and side-to-side so that one
could more easily align the top left corner with the desired top and left
sides. ON takes over the entire screen anyway with its background/overlay.
This should be a simple "fix" code-wise that could fairly easily be
incorporated into an update.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

MisterB in (e-mail address removed) shared
these words of wisdom:

Hi all,
I'm having serious troubles in getting along with this posting.
It seems to be deriving from an older thread which no longer is kept
on the "board" of the newsgroup.
And it's terrible to read through it due to it's structure of replies
always posting on top instead of using reasonable quoting [siiiiggh]

Mister B,

It would be nice if, instead of the small crosshairs that ON
provides, the crosshairs extended full-screen top-to-bottom and
side-to-side so that one could more easily align the top left corner
with the desired top and left sides. ON takes over the entire screen
anyway with its background/overlay. This should be a simple "fix"
code-wise that could fairly easily be incorporated into an update.

I'm sorry, I do not understand what you mean.
One can click with cross-cursor wherever one likes and draw a
rectangle.
Where's the problem?

Jon Z,
I do not see any Tooltip (Speedtip) bubble anywhere.
What am I missing?

John Waller,
I've been using SnagIt for quite some long time and have v. 7.2.5 on
all of my machines.
I estimate that in the future I will only use it for the special
features like capturing scrolling parts etc. as ON does a fine job and
annotating with the pen on the tablet will do the job in many cases.

But I do not think that ON was less comfortable to use to a relevant
extent because of not having the selection box for the start.
IMO it's pretty fine the way it is. No problem if one makes the
rectangle a bit wider. It's easy enough cut off the unwanted parts
with a tool like IrfanView or so.

I think that the limited powers of the development would better be
invested in other areas.

Rainald

 

[MisterB]

Sorry if the posting reply is at the top; that's the way the web interface
arranges it. I'll move down to the bottom of this reply now...

MisterB in (e-mail address removed) shared
these words of wisdom:

Hi all,
I'm having serious troubles in getting along with this posting.
It seems to be deriving from an older thread which no longer is kept
on the "board" of the newsgroup.
And it's terrible to read through it due to it's structure of replies
always posting on top instead of using reasonable quoting [siiiiggh]

Mister B,

It would be nice if, instead of the small crosshairs that ON
provides, the crosshairs extended full-screen top-to-bottom and
side-to-side so that one could more easily align the top left corner
with the desired top and left sides. ON takes over the entire screen
anyway with its background/overlay. This should be a simple "fix"
code-wise that could fairly easily be incorporated into an update.

I'm sorry, I do not understand what you mean.
One can click with cross-cursor wherever one likes and draw a
rectangle.
Where's the problem?

Jon Z,
I do not see any Tooltip (Speedtip) bubble anywhere.
What am I missing?

John Waller,
I've been using SnagIt for quite some long time and have v. 7.2.5 on
all of my machines.
I estimate that in the future I will only use it for the special
features like capturing scrolling parts etc. as ON does a fine job and
annotating with the pen on the tablet will do the job in many cases.

But I do not think that ON was less comfortable to use to a relevant
extent because of not having the selection box for the start.
IMO it's pretty fine the way it is. No problem if one makes the
rectangle a bit wider. It's easy enough cut off the unwanted parts
with a tool like IrfanView or so.

I think that the limited powers of the development would better be
invested in other areas.

Rainald

The original thrust of this thread seemed to involve trying to be more
precise with creating a screen clipping due to one not being able to
determine exactly where the borders were going to fall relative to the area
one wanted to capture/clip. I've noticed this same problem when I clip
something. Altering the very small crosshairs as I describe would be
immensely helpful to those users, like myself, who try to be very precise in
not clipping more than we want to but still get what we do want to clip. Take
a look at most any graphic package that uses visual coordinates to see how
easy it would be to locate your clip borders with such expanded crosshairs.
Those who don't really care about such precision probably would not notice
the difference. Maybe ON should offer an option: small crosshair (as it is
now for those who don't care) or full-screen crosshairs (which I would
certainly appreciate).

MisterB