The number of options available natively in Windows to take screenshots is very wide and varied , so it is not really necessary to resort to third-party applications to perform this task unless it is a fundamental part of our day to day and We do not adapt to these because we have very specific needs.
To the time needed to take screenshots and edit them to change the size and name, we have to add the time we need to add them to the document where we want to include them. If the number of captures that we want to include is very high, we can consider considering the possibility of making all the captures once we have written the document, which increases the number of possibilities of leaving something behind, or making the capture and including it as we need, with the risk of losing the thread we are working on.
But if we use the Word editor, there is no need to wait until the end to add the screenshots or waste minutes making the screenshots as we need them, since this Office application includes a function that allows us to take a screenshot and include it directly in the document , a task that can take us, at most, 5 seconds , not much more.
Take screenshots with Word
Obviously, this function is only intended to create and include screenshots in the documents we are working on, it is not focused as another method to take screenshots in Windows, since that is what the Snipping application is already for. The option available in Word that allows us to automatically take and add screenshots to a Word document is found within the Insert option ribbon, in the Illustrations section, through the Capture button.
By clicking on the Capture button, a thumbnail of all the applications that we have open in the background will be displayed, applications that, in theory, we are going to need to take a screenshot of, hence they are open in the background. To take a screenshot of the applications that we have open in the background, we just have to click on it so that Word takes the capture and includes it directly in the document, adjusting to the margins that we have established.
If we have several applications open in the background and it is difficult for us to identify which one is each one, we just have to pass the mouse over it so that the application shows us its name. If we don’t have any application open in the background, when clicking on the Screen cutout option, the Windows desktop will be displayed where we will have to select which area we want to include in the document. If we only have one application open and we only want to include a cutout, we have to select the Screen cutout option.