How to Use the Zoom Meeting Screenshot Tool?

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Zoom Video Communications, Inc., generally known as Zoom, is a communications technology company offering video telephony and online chat services. It works through a cloud-based peer-to-peer software platform and is widely used for teleconferencing, distance education, social relations, and telecommuting. While Zoom Video is known for its reliability and robust performance and comes with excellent features, some users are not familiar with its certain features like the option to record screens or take a screenshot. If you are looking to use the Zoom meeting screenshot tool, you can follow the information provided below.

Guide to Use the Zoom Meeting Screenshot Tool

Zoom comes with a built-in recording tool that can help a user record a Zoom meeting, provided the feature is allowed by the meeting host. While the Zoom meeting can be recorded by free users locally, premium users of the service also get the option to record and save it in the cloud. And while a recording will capture everything and maybe over killing sometimes, a screenshot option allows the user to capture a particular screen.

Zoom Meeting Screenshot

Capturing a screenshot in Zoom Meeting is a simple process as the most desktop system has a built-in tool for capturing a screen. The tool functions universally and can capture screens from all applications except those apps which pose restrictions on screen recording/capturing, for example, Netflix.

Moreover, it’s up to the users whether they want to use the stock screenshot tool of their device or use the Zoom Meeting screenshot tool.

Using Zoom Meeting Screenshot Stock Tool

If you are looking to use the stock screenshot tool on your desktop OS to capture screenshots during a Zoom meeting, you can do so easily by pressing the right keyboard combination.

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Windows 10

On Windows 10, you can capture a screenshot using the Win + PrntScrn keyboard shortcut. The shortcuts will be saved to the Screenshots folder of your Pictures library. To get to this location, press Window + E keys on your keyboard to open Window Explorer, and then go to Picture > Screenshots folder from the left-hand side panel.

macOS

macOS lets users capture screenshots of the entire screen (including the window or area of the screen). These screenshots get saved to the Pictures folder.

  • In order to take the entire window screenshot, simply tap on the Command+Shift+3 keyboard shortcut.
  • Similarly, to take a screenshot of the active window, you will need to tap on the Command + Shift +4 keyboard shortcut. When you see the cursor changes to a crosshair, tap on the Space bar. Then, tap on the window you wish to capture.

Zoom Meeting Screenshot – Native Tool of the App

As said earlier, Zoom comes with its screenshot tool, however, it is not enabled by default. In order to enable it, you can follow the below-mentioned steps. These steps apply to both the Windows 10 and macOS application of Zoom.

  • Firstly, on your Windows 10 PC or macOS, you will need to launch the Zoom application.
  • Once you are directed to the home screen of the Zoom application, click or tap on the Settings option (gear icon) located under your profile picture.
  • Under the settings section of your Zoom application, navigate to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab and select the Expand Chat option.
  • Then, you will need to enable the Screenshot shortcut option.
  • For macOS, before you can capture screenshots, you will need to allow Zoom additional permissions.
  • When enabled, you can use the Command+T keys on your keyboard to capture a screenshot on macOS.
  • Similarly, if you wish to capture a screenshot on Windows 10, you will need to use the Ctrl+T keys on your keyboard.
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NOTE: As the Ctrl + T (For PC)or the Command + T (for macOS) keyboard shortcuts are taken over by Zoom, you will not be able to use it in other applications when Zoom is running. This might seem a problem for some users as the same keyboard shortcut is used by browsers to open a new tab. You can change the keyboard shortcut by selecting the shortcut option in Zoom’s settings. Here, you will be able to configure different key combination that doesn’t interfere with the keyboard shortcuts used by other applications.

Snipping Tool In Windows 10 PC

If you are looking to capture some particular portion of the screenshot you took earlier, you can use the snipping tool provided on the Windows 10 PC. To use this feature, follow these steps.

  • Click or tap on the Start option located in the lower-left corner of the screen. This will expand the menu on your screen.
  • From the expanded menu select the Snipping Tool option. If you can’t see the option in the menu, you can simply begin typing Snipping and select the tool from the search result.
  • As you will open the Snipping Tool option, you will be provided a small window over your screen.
  • Press the New button on the window and then select the portion of the screenshot by using the left-click button (press and hold) of your mouse.
  • You will then be prompted to save the captured shot to your desired location.

So, these are the steps that you will need to follow to use the Zoom Meeting screenshot tool for capturing the desired screen.

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