ZoomIt Quick Reference

Question

Anyone make a good 1-2 page ZoomIt quick reference? I don't use ZoomIt enough to remember all the commands. I made a quick reference for myself, but more recently wondered if someone had made a better quick reference for ZoomIt. I am not very creative so would love to see if someone has something better.

Till someone share's something better here is the quick reference I built.

Happy to hear feedback. Don't know if i can incorporate everything but will listen. I basically tried to reformat and group the commands from the website. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/zoomit

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/d9nojfyahvoxs9jb9mjoz/Sysinternals-ZoomIt-Quick-Reference-v2.pdf?rlkey=tva5kc3j3eds7hzm9g1zjuye2&st=9tgcsff6&dl=0w

Alan

P.S. I know that version 12 of Zoom it just dropped but from what I can tell there are not any new hotkeys. I will update the version number later. Would love to hear feedback or see a better version someone else did.

Answer 1

A concise, up-to-date ZoomIt quick reference can be built directly from the documented shortcut list. The following layout fits well on 1–2 pages and aligns with the current ZoomIt v11.0 shortcuts.

Drawing and Highlighting

• Blue highlight pen: Shift + B
• Yellow pen: Y
• Yellow highlight pen: Shift + Y
• Orange pen: O
• Orange highlight pen: Shift + O
• Pink pen: P
• Pink highlight pen: Shift + P
• Blur pen: X

Shapes and Lines (while drawing)

• Straight line: hold Shift
• Rectangle: hold Ctrl
• Ellipse: hold Tab
• Arrow: hold Ctrl + Shift

Erase and Exit

• Erase last drawing: Ctrl + Z
• Erase all drawings: E
• Exit ZoomIt drawing/zoom mode: Esc or right-click

Screenshots

• Copy screenshot to clipboard: Ctrl + C
• Crop screenshot to clipboard: Ctrl + Shift + C
• Save screenshot as PNG: Ctrl + S
• Save cropped screenshot to file: Ctrl + Shift + S
• Copy region of screen to clipboard: Ctrl + 6
• Save region of screen to file: Ctrl + Shift + 6
• Copy text (OCR) from region to clipboard: Ctrl + Alt + 6

Screen Recording (Windows 10 May 2019 Update and higher)

• Start/stop full screen recording (MP4 or GIF): Ctrl + 5
• Crop screen recording (MP4 or GIF): Ctrl + Shift + 5
• Record only window under mouse (MP4 or GIF): Ctrl + Alt + 5

Timer

• Show countdown timer: Ctrl + 3
• Increase/decrease time: Ctrl + mouse scroll up/down or arrow keys
• Minimize timer (without pausing): Alt + Tab
• Show timer when minimized: left-click the ZoomIt icon

Live Modes and DemoType

• LiveZoom mode: Ctrl + 4
• LiveDraw mode: Ctrl + Shift + 4
• Start DemoType: Ctrl + 7
• Move back to previous snippet (DemoType): Ctrl + Shift + 7
• Advance to next snippet (DemoType user-driven mode): Space

Panorama

• Start/stop panorama recording: Ctrl + 8

This grouping (Drawing, Shapes, Erase/Exit, Screenshots, Recording, Timer, Live/DemoType, Panorama) keeps related commands together and fits well on a single reference sheet. For a 2‑page version, one page can focus on drawing/annotation and screenshots, and the second on recording, timer, LiveZoom/LiveDraw, and DemoType.

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References:

• ZoomIt v11.0
• Sysinternals Utilities Index
• PowerToys: Utilities to customize Windows
• Sysinternals Suite