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12 Keyboard shortcuts every 5. Alt + 1-9
Chomebook owners need to If you have pinned your favorite apps to
Chrome OS's shelf, then you can use these
know shortcuts to open them. Alt-1 opens the left-
most app pinned to the shelf, for example,
A dozen keyboard shortcuts to make Chrome while Alt-9 opens the rightmost app.
OS even easier to use.Chrome OS is a bliss-
fully streamlined operating system that is easy
to use. 7. Alt + [ or ]
Keyboard shortcuts, however, can make navi- These two shortcuts are great for multitasking.
gating your Chromebook even easier. Here The left bracket combo docks the active win-
are the top dozen shortcuts. dow to the left side of your screen, and the
right bracket does the opposite, letting you
quickly set up side-by-side windows.
1. Alt + Search
One of the first things you'll notice about a 8. Alt + -
Chromebook's keyboard is the caps-lock key
has a magnifying glass on it. Instead of lock- Alt plus the minus-sign key minimizes your ac-
ing caps, this key calls up Chrome OS's tive window. With your desktop clear, this com-
search window. You can still do caps lock, bo will the restore the last window you mini-
however, by hitting the search key while hold- mized.
ing down the Alt key.
9. Alt + =
2. Shift + Escape
Alt plus the equals key stretches your current
This is the Chrome OS equivalent of Windows' active window across your desktop. It's not
Ctrl-Alt-Delete. Shift-Esc calls up Chrome's quite full-screen mode because it leaves the
Task Manager where you can see which apps header at the top of the window. You can use
are using the most system resources and the full-screen key (found in the F4 spot) to go
force quit an unresponsive app. This keyboard full screen.
shortcut only works when Chrome is your ac-
tive window; it won't work if you have an app
as its own window as your top-most, active
window. 10. Alt + backspace
The backspace key deletes the character to
the left of your cursor. Windows PCs, however,
3. Search + L have a separate delete key that deletes char-
acters to the right of the cursor. To get this
Hit this combo when you get up from your Windows delete-key functionality on a
Chromebook to lock it. You'll need to enter Chromebook, just hold down the Alt key when
you password upon your return to unlock it. you backspace.
4. Ctrl + Shift + Q(x2) 11. Ctrl + 'switch window' key
Hold down Ctrl and Shift and hit the Q key The switch window key is usually found in the
twice to log out of your Chromebook. F5 spot on a Chromebook keyboard. Com-
bined with the Ctrl key, it takes a screenshot of
your entire desktop and saves it to your Down-
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