If you have recently bought a Surface Pro and you don’t know how to take a screenshot on it, here is the guide for you. You can take screenshots of the Desktop in Surface Pro or almost any other Surface device with the help of this simple and easy-to-use steps.
While you can always use Snipping Tool or install some third-party free screen capture software on Surface Pro, if you use a keyboard and you need to take out a screenshot of your Surface desktop natively, it is very easy for you.
Take screenshots of Surface Desktop
To take screenshots of Surface Desktop, do the following:
First, make sure that you are on the screen that you want to capture. Then, press the Fn + Windows + Space key.
Do this, and you will find that the screen may dim a bit for a second or two, and then the screenshot of your desktop will be taken and saved in your Pictures\Screenshots User folder.
There is a second way to capture screenshots on Surface Pro. You can also double-click the top button on your Surface Pen, select the area you want to capture and lift the pen when this is done. The image gets captured to OneNote.
For your information, there is yet another way! Hold down the Windows flag button on your Surface device and then press the Volume Down button which is present on the side of the Surface device. The screen will momentarily darken, and your screenshot will be taken.
How do I take a screenshot of my desktop page?
Taking a screenshot of your desktop page is not that different on Surface Pro devices than on a regular Windows 11/10 computer. You need to press the Fn+Windows+Space keys together to capture a screenshot on Surface Pro. On the other hand, if you want to do the same on a Windows 11/10 computer, you can simply press Print Screen and paste the screenshot into any image editing tool. For your information, the same method is also available on Surface devices.
Where is the PrtScn key on Surface Pro?
The PrtScn or the Print Screen button is available on the Surface Pro device’s keyboard. You can find it in the top row of your keyboard. The same can be found in the on-screen keyboard as well. You can use it to capture screenshots without any problem.
You can also read more on how to take a desktop screenshot on Windows.
Pressing three keys at the same time seems a little awkward to do. I still prefer my Free Screenshot Capture.
Where is the “Fn” key on a Surface Pro 3? Can you post a picture to make it more intuitive? Do we have to use a keyboard to take a screenshot on the Surface Pro 3?
If you use the keyboard, you will find it in the bottom most row, next to the Alt key. Else you can use the built-in Snipping Tool.
When I press this, the screenshot is taken but my Pictures/Screenshots folder stays empty… any ideas? How do I reset the file path?
Where is the windows button? None of the ways to take a picture are working for me
I have tried #3 several times on my SP3 and it doesn’t work. I also tried using vol. up and the power button, without success.
If you Press and hold the windows Logo button on the tablet…. it’s at one of the ends of the screen… Looks like a windows logo. Press and hold it and press Volume DOWN on the volume rocker… you’ll see the screen dim and re-brighten and the screen shot will appear in a screenshot folder in the Pictures folder (The one on your Surface, not the one in Onedrive)
This may be a late reply for those on this discussion thread but I’ll post it anyway for future. I’m using a Surface Pro 2. I finally found the correct Windows Flag Button. :) I’m a bit slow despite my good grades in high school. It’s the image of the Windows Flag that’s on the border of the SCREEN not on the keyboard. I press and HOLD down the windows flag image on the screen boarder (there is a slight vibration) and then press the volume down on the side of the screen. As mentioned, the window dims a bit. I then have to go to the Photos/Screenshot folder. For a while I was just looking in Photos, but I had to look for the Screenshots folder within the Photos folder. I finally have my screen shot. :)
Thank you very much for your tip, it works.
If you use keyboard, you can only use Fn+Win+Space combination.
And if you doesn’t have keyboard, you can only use Win Flag Button+Volume Down.
:)
There is no volume down or up button on the Surface Pro 3 keyboard….
Bam! Winner. BOOOOOOM!!!
I find using windows button and volume doesn’t work all the time. Sometimes it take several tries, other times I give up, if I’m lucky it happens. Moments of my life are lost trying to getting a screen shot. You know the sad part is I bought a huge expensive key board from Microsoft that doesn’t have the window key, so I can’t screen shot with that either. This kinda sucks
every thing suggested on here works fine for me on my surface pro 3 even made a copy of this webpage with the windows button and vol down keys at same time