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MicrosoftIntroducing web capture for Microsoft Edge
Since the release of the new Microsoft Edge, we have heard a lot of feedback about missing the web notes tool that allowed you to capture and mark up content across the web. Frankly, we’ve missed it too! But first, we wanted to make it better. While web notes was a great feature, there was also room for improvement. Many of you reported using it for capturing quick screenshots to copy or share, while others loved the ability to to mark-up full webpages with scrolling. So, we designed the new screenshot feature, web capture, with this in mind and are excited to introduce the basic screen capture functionality to our Dev and Canary builds. In the near future, you can expect to see more functionalities added to web capture, like adding ink or highlights to your captures, capturing full webpages, and scrolling while marking them.
To try it out, use the Settings and more menu (...) in the top right corner of the browser and select Web capture.
When you open web capture, you can use the selection tool to capture just the content you want. We found that sometimes you want more than what you’re able to see on the webpage, so we have added the ability for you to select content lower down on the page. To do this, just hold down the selection tool and drag to the bottom of the page; the page will automatically start to scroll so that you can capture everything you need in one go.
Once you are done with the capture, you will see a menu with a couple of options: 'Copy' and 'Add notes'. Click Copy to add the image to your clipboard. It will then be available for you to paste into any application. If you want to mark up the screenshot with inking tools, select the Add notes option. You will see the image in a dialog box where you can draw on it, share, save and copy with your annotations.
If you love web capture and want to access the tool more quickly, you can pin it directly to your browser toolbar. Just right click on the option in the Settings and more menu (...) and select Show in toolbar. You can also use the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+S) to invoke web capture.
Try out the new tool and let us know what you think! We love hearing your feedback. From within Microsoft Edge, you can go to “…” menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback, or simply use the shortcut (Shift+Alt+I) to open the feedback tool.
- The Microsoft Edge Product Team
I have it on Edge Dev right now. I do and need to take screenshots and annotate them regularly but web capture at its current state is not very helpful for me, I mean it works, it takes screenshots as it's supposed to 🙂
There is a thread dedicated to this feature, a lot of good suggestions mentioned there, please consider all of them and implement the most requested ones.
Some missing features that I'm looking for: (annotating/writing on web page,
take screenshot while scrolling down a web page, add sticky notes to the web captures, integration with OneNote, option for "save as" to save the web capture to a specific place instead of the default downlaods folder, etc)Another thing I should mention is that this feature is very useful for other operation systems (Linux/Mac) which might not have something like Snip & Sketch, so a built-in tool in the browser will come handy.
Thanks
vygadekaHotCakeX thanks for the super prompt reply on the post. You can take screenshots while scrolling with web capture today. We are also adding the capability to capture entire webpage and annotate on top similar to Microsoft Edge legacy. There are also other updates planned for the feature beyond that. Please stay tuned.
- Thanks, happy to hear that, great job so far!
- I find the snip and sketch tool to be a hot mess. It's a "clunky" work flow. I use FastStone Screen Capture- a simple utility that allows easy screen captures without using the keyboard (It keeps your eyes on your screen). I can enter text on a capture it, draw arrows, highlight a selection on a capture, blur or pixelate information as needed, capture video....
I find the current iteration of "Snip and Sketch" pretty useless-- Spoiler
gcuneo2 wrote:
I find the snip and sketch tool to be a hot mess. It's a "clunky" work flow. I use FastStone Screen Capture- a simple utility that allows easy screen captures without using the keyboard (It keeps your eyes on your screen). I can enter text on a capture it, draw arrows, highlight a selection on a capture, blur or pixelate information as needed, capture video....
I find the current iteration of "Snip and Sketch" pretty useless-I find Snip & Sketch quite useful.
it does have easy screen capture.
1. by searching for the apps name on Windows earch.
2. by launching it using PrntScrn button on the keyboard.
3. by launching it using the button in the action center (without keyboard)
so that's for ease of usage.
you can draw, write with touch or mouse, annotate, erase, crop, use ruler or protractor to draw any shapes.
ones you're done, you can use the share button and open it with whatever app to apply any other kinds of filters and retouch.
it's perfectly useful for majority of people. it obviously doesn't record videos which is normal since it's not its purpose.
if you don't like to use it, that's totally fine, but the fact is, that tool is quite useful and serves its purposes.
- Of course dragging the selection rectangle to scroll does not work with touch, as expected. I wish someone would make a browser for Windows where touch/tablet usage sits at a high priority on its UX design. How do I miss the tablet UX (but ONLY the UX) of Metro IE.
- I use Surface Book 3 and dragging and scrolling with touch works as expected.
- I'm talking about specifically about the web capture feature. With mouse it is possible to capture more than the visible area of the website by moving the mouse to the edges of the window while grabbing the selection rectangle. With touch, trying to move the rectangle past the edge of the window is impossible and attempting to do a normal scroll outside of the rectangle just cancels the whole operation.
- honestly, I'm not even on my touch-based Surface to test this right now, but I've been so frustrated with the poor touch support in Edge for years now that this doesn't surprise me at all.
- Quick suggestion, there should option to upload screenshot to cloud or image host service.
1.Take screenshot
2.Upload it online (For example dropbox)
3.Share the link with friend
Like imgur
Suggestion second, gif creation and screen recording tool so that we dont have to take help of third party programs.- Gif is an old unoptimized format. you can record a 1 minute 1080p clip in HVEC (H.265) format in less than 5MB with high quality. doing the same thing in Gif will give you a roughly ~500MB file size.
And there is also WebP with tons of advantages over Gif. To second vineydhiman's point, will it be possible to mark up a web page and then have that mark up saved with the user's Edge profile and synced to other Edge browsers?
The ability to scroll a snip is a great enhancement over what Windows' Snip & Sketch does. Thank you!
This is helpful feature , it would be nice to have option like open Snipping Tools or Snip & Sketch tools and there we have some additional options for editing.
In addition, this could have same options as Snip & Sketch tools since it has similar requirements.
- There's a way to do that. There's a share button on the capture preview. Just share it to the snip & sketch app and done.
- That's a good point. actually, with this method I can save it to OneNote as well, think of it as OneNote integration that I was looking for. thanks 🙂
I agree - make it part of Snip & Sketch - why reinvent the wheel. The Share is a couple of extra unnecessary steps
- There are reasons for that:
Snip & Sketch isn't available on other OSes such as Linux and Mac which are target platforms for the new Microsoft Edge.
Snip & Sketch doesn't support taking screenshot of a web page while scrolling down which is super useful. Snip & Sketch only can take screenshot of that is displayed on the screen.
also if they bring back all the features from Edge legacy, there's gonna be sticky notes and ability to type on capture, none of which are available on Snip & Sketch.
so yeah that's enough reasons to develop this into Edge.
I really love the rate at which you are adding new features to this browser, just checked my browser and I saw now I can draw/annotate my web captures!
super cool, works the way it's supposed to
- I see no response to the question around the full capture not capturing the full pages on SharePoint....just the viewable area is being captured.
Has the issue been Recognized by MS? If so, when is it targeted to be fixed? If not, why has it not been recognized as it is an issue. - vygadeka - pdelung and I have both reported the ongoing issue starting in 2021 and resurfaced the question in 2022 and there has yet to be a reply.
Is MS aware that the Web Capture full screen does not capture the full screen when on SharePoint sourced pages. It is a really, really annoying bug compounded by not knowing if it has be recognized as so and if there is a fix going to be developed.
For my use cases this bug prevents me from using the tool at all as I live in SharePoint.
vygadeka Please reply and let us know.
Thanks.Web capture for SharePoint frames, please.
- Justin-GOV - was there to be a link or something with your response?
- It's using controlled feature rollout, only available to a subset of insiders.
- The simplicity of this is absolutely brilliant! The majority of time I just want to screenshot content to clipboard and very quickly - this does exactly that. Thank you!
