New Windows 10 screen clipping tool supports multi-screen captures
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Key notes
- Microsoft has announced that it is working hard on a clipping feature for Windows 10.
- With this feature you'll be able to clip data from one device and then paste it to another device.
- You can draw any shape on the screen to create a screen clipping and copy it to the clipboard.
- If you have multiple screens, you'll be allowed to clip just one screen or all screens at once.
Microsoft’s watcher WalkingCat recently revealed that the company is working on a new feature that will be available in the coming weeks.
Initially, the leaker had suggested that it would be hidden in build Windows 10 build 17627, which was reiterated by fellow watchers, who intimated that a new UWP clipping experience was also being worked on.
For more than a year now, the tech giant has been working on the new clipping experience for Windows, which will mean that you can cut data from one device, and transfer it by pasting to another device like your phone or PC.
In a tweet posted Thursday evening, WalkingCat, who discovered the resources in the Windows 10 RS5 build, said the new feature should be complete in the 17634 build.
A new Settings page found in the RS5 build reveals more details of the feature, which suggests that it may work either in Automatic or Manual Mode. In the former, everything you copy will be automatically synced, while the latter offers the targeted devices to paste the clipping to.
With the new clipping experience, users can draw any shape on the screen to create a screen snip, and copy it to their clipboard. However, users with multiple screens will only be allowed to clip one screen only, or all screens simultaneously.
It also lets users capture their ‘Left Screen, Right Screen, or Both Screens’, all of which aren’t available with current Microsoft devices on the market.
The feature’s underpinnings are already being seen in Microsoft apps such as Swiftkey and Launcher, on which it would rely to deliver the data to your device. Ultimately, this would ease workflow as it connects your phone and PC together.
For those of you who are in search of a good clipboard manager for your Windows PC and you don’t have the time to wait for the new clipping tool to be released, we strongly suggest you to download and try Comfort Clipboard Pro. This is a great clipboard with a user-friendly interface and a bunch of useful features.
Despite the numerous screen clipping experiences already in existence, one would wonder whether there’s a new device in the making.
Rumors abound over a new Surface Phone in the works, what with the rash of Microsoft patents relating to a folding device, besides Project Andromeda.
We’ll wait and hear from Windows Insiders on this one.
