Inserting Snipped Images Into A Note

If you've never "Snipped An Image" from what's displaying on your monitor before, then here's a brief explanation of what that means.

In this image a monitor is displaying two windows. One window is displaying a photograph of two deer, and partially hidden behind it, the second window is displaying a web page.

This demonstration will show how to use the software's image snipping tool to capture content on the monitor, turn it into an image file, and paste it into a note.

Just in case you're interested, the two wild deer in the photo are named George and Gracie. I befriended them after their mother "kicked them out of the house." They love to take naps outside my kitchen window and watch me cook, and strangely enough, eat.

In this image, the deer on the left (Gracie), is surrounded by a red rectangle, which is an 'image snipping' rectangle.

What's inside that rectangle is the content you want captured by the snipping process.

That 'snipped' content gets copied from the monitor, put into an image file, and then it's inserted into the note being display in a Notes Window (not shown).

This is the snipped image that was created, from the content inside the 'snipping' rectangle.

Snipping images allows you to capture anything that can be displayed on your computer's monitor, and have that information stored in an image file.

In the Notes Window, move the cursor to the place in the note where you want the image inserted.

Then click on the Create And Insert A Snipped Image hyperlink.

In this image, a red rectangle in the note's content, shows where the image is going to be pasted into the note by the snipping process.

When you click the Create And Insert A Snipped Image hyperlink, the "Little Snipper" dialog box pops up on top of your note.

You'll use this dialog box to help you select the part of the monitor you want turned into an image.

Then, it will create that image, insert it into your note, and create a Data File Link database record to represent and track that image.

Finally, it will link that database record to the Note record and all of the note's parent records.

The next thing you need to do is navigate to the window that you want to create the snip from, if you're not already there.

The Little Snipper dialog box floats on top of whatever's displaying on the monitor so it's already there with you.

To start the image capture process you click on the Snip button on the Little Snipper dialog box.

After you click that button, you'll see a cross-hair cursor pop up on your screen.

Now what you need to do is move that cursor to where you want to start capturing, and then hold down the left mouse button, and keep it held down while you drag diagonally downwards over what you want to capture.

As you're dragging, you'll see a red, expanding rectangle drawn around the area you're dragging over.

When you release the left mouse button, what's inside that rectangle is turned into an image and displayed in the Little Snipper dialog box (which resizes itself to fit your snipped image).

The dialog box will tell you the size of the image.

When you click on the Transfer Snip To Note button the image will be pasted into the note, and the Little Snipper dialog box will close.

A Data File Link record will be created to represent the image that was created and copied into the note.

Some of the text in the note, that's directly above the image's insertion location, will be used as the Data File Link record's description.