Taking a screenshot of a webpage can be helpful in many situations. Moreover, if you take a full-page screenshot, you can share recipes, guides, and troubleshooting guides.
Microsoft Edge lets you take full-page screenshots of web pages. Read on to find out how.
Take Full-Page Screenshots Using Web Capture Tool
You can utilize Microsoft’s Edge browser’s web capture tool to take screenshots of websites. The tool offers a choice for free selection or capturing the entire page. It’s a good idea to update your Edge browser if you haven’t done so recently.
Open the Edge browser, go to Menu (…) > Help and feedback > About Microsoft Edge, and let it fetch and install the latest update.
After that, you can use the Edge browser to take a full-page screenshot of any website. Here’s how to do it.
- Open the web page you want to capture, and scroll down till the page’s end to ensure all images are loaded.
- Click the Menu (…) > Web capture option from the top-right in the corner.
- Click the Full page option to take a full-page screenshot.
You can also press Ctrl + Shift +S to bring up the Web capture tool quickly.
This full-page screenshot window stacks on top of the web page. You can scroll it as necessary to check if all images and text are part of the screenshot.
Click the floppy-shaped save button to choose the destination for the screenshot. By default, all screenshots are saved in the JPEG format, so Edge won’t break the image into pages, like when you save a webpage as a PDF.
Alternatively, you can copy and share the images to messaging apps, emails, documents, etc.
Pin Web Capture Tool Button on the Toolbar in Microsoft Edge
It can be cumbersome to keep track of yet another keyboard shortcut or open Edge’s settings page each time you want to launch the Web capture tool.
To make it easier for you to launch the tool, you can pin it to Edge’s toolbar to open it with a single click.
The toggle to make the Web capture appear on the toolbar is hidden inside the Edge’s menu settings. In Microsoft Edge, go to Menu (…) > Settings > Appearance and toggle on the Show web capture button option.
You can find the Web capture tool button on the toolbar where the extensions are.
Annotate the Full-Page Screenshots With the Web Capture Tool
After taking a screenshot, you might like to annotate texts or areas of the screen that are important. Web capture offers a pen that you can use to write on the screenshot, and an eraser to remove the strokes.
Click on the downward arrow next to the Draw button to pick a color and adjust the slider to change stroke’s thickness.
The Erase option removes the entire stoke and not a portion. You can refer to our guide on annotating images, websites, and PDFs to edit the screenshot further.
Now You Can Take Full-Page Screenshots Quickly
Microsoft Edge’s Web capture tool is good enough to take full-page screenshots and share them quickly over email or messaging apps. The JPEG screenshots are easy to store, and the annotation options are fairly basic.
However, the Web capture tool does not allow you to change or crop any blank areas of the screenshot. Also, the Add notes option is only available on the Free selection option.
If you need more advanced editing, you can use Windows Screenshot apps and tools. One of them will help you crop the screenshot to a certain size, and you can highlight the text on the website.