How to Take Full-Page Scrolling Screenshots in Microsoft Edge Using Web Capture

Capturing information from long-form online articles, receipt confirmations, infographic guides, or web designs often presents a practical obstacle: traditional operating system screenshot tools—such as Windows Snipping Tool or macOS Grab—only photograph what is currently visible within your browser viewport. When a web page extends several screens below the fold, users frequently resort to stitching multiple screen grabs together or installing ad-laden third-party extensions.

Microsoft Edge includes a robust, built-in feature called Web Capture (also labelled Screenshot in recent updates). With a single command, Edge automatically scrolls down the entire web document, captures every element from top to bottom, renders it as a seamless high-resolution image, and provides markup tools for drawing and annotation. This guide details how to use Web Capture.

Why Built-In Web Capture Outperforms Browser Extensions

Using Microsoft Edge’s integrated tool offers key technical advantages over external browser extensions:

• Privacy and Security: Third-party screen capture extensions often request invasive permissions to read all your browsing history and website data. Edge’s built-in tool operates strictly locally without collecting personal browsing data.
• Fixed Navigation Bar Handling: Sticky navigation headers and floating chat widgets frequently break third-party scrolling scripts. Edge’s rendering engine intelligently pins sticky elements appropriately during capture.
• Built-In Drawing & Visual Search: You can ink annotations, highlight critical phrases with custom colours, or immediately search visual elements using Copilot and Bing Visual Search.

Triggering Web Capture via Keyboard Shortcut

The fastest way to launch the capture utility is using Edge’s dedicated global hotkey:

1. Open the webpage you wish to capture in Microsoft Edge.
2. Press Ctrl + Shift + S on Windows (or Command + Shift + S on macOS).
3. A subtle translucent bar will appear across the top of your browser window offering two primary modes: Capture area and Capture full page.

Capturing an Entire Scrolling Web Page

To photograph the whole document regardless of length:

1. Click Capture full page on the top toolbar.
2. Edge will instantly render the full vertical height of the web page and display an interactive preview window.
3. Use the scrollbar on the right to review the captured image from the header to the footer.
4. To annotate, click Draw from the top tool cluster, select your pen thickness and ink colour, and write notes or circle important details directly on the image.
5. Click Save (the floppy disk icon) to download the high-resolution JPEG directly to your computer’s Downloads folder.
6. Alternatively, click Copy to place the image onto your clipboard for immediate pasting into Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Slack, or Word.

Adding the Web Capture Button to the Edge Toolbar

If you prefer quick mouse access rather than memorising keyboard combinations, you can pin the capture button permanently beside your address bar:

1. Click the three-dot menu (…) in the top right corner of Microsoft Edge.
2. Select Settings from the bottom of the menu.
3. In the left-hand navigation panel, click on Appearance.
4. Scroll down to the Select which buttons to show on the toolbar section.
5. Find Web capture button (or Screenshot button) and switch the toggle to On.

A camera-with-selection icon will now remain visible on your toolbar for one-click screenshot access.