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Hello! I just noticed the Snipping Tool Ruler option has disappeared. This allowed me to highlight & draw straight lines after I snip/copy an image. It's missing & I need this reactivated. Is anyone aware of any other options? Not sure why Microsoft has possibly removed this from the Snipping tool. Has this happened to anyone else? Thanks!
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Hi All
I believe the issue we are all having stems from another application called snip & sketch which included the ruler function. (now merged into snipping tool)
I have found an alternative for creating a straight line within snip tool if this is all you require. if you hold down the SHIFT key as you create the line it will snap at 45 degree increments.
This also applies for the arrow function, the rectangle will retain a square aspect ratio when shift is held.
I hope this helps!
Regards
Ross
Hi Kirito! I couldn't uninstall the old Snipping Tool version. It requires an escalation to our company administrator. Somehow, I was able to install another Snipping Tool app available in the Microsoft Store. The ruler version is working now. YAY!!! I pinned it to my taskbar. THANK YOU once again! :)
Thank you. I will try that! I did find PicPick which is a great alternative!!!
It appears MS did their typical strategy to not ask regular users their prefernce and fixed something that wasn't broken...
This led me to find Greenshot (https://getgreenshot.org/downloads/)
It's free, doesn't have the ruler but let's you "box" an area and then populate your box with highlighting...also has mutliple shapes and a lot of other features I probably won't use...but for marking up documents and doing what Snipping Tool used to do...it works
Click on the virtual ruler then roll the scroll wheel on your computer mouse to rotate it.
It will return to 45 degrees once you close the Word document though. I would just leave a blank Word document open.
