Keys & Shortcuts

Chromebooks also has a different keyboard to what you may have seen on other laptops.

For starters, there is no Caps Lock key. This has been replaced with a dedicated Search key which will launch the App Menu. The App Menu is a place where all your Web Apps are located, you can perform searches here; and soon it will be used to search Google Contacts. If you would rather have the Caps Lock key back, you can either use Alt + Search key which will act as the Caps Lock key

Many of your simplest functions are:

Ctrl + C - Copy

Ctrl + X - Cut

Ctrl + V - Paste

Ctrl + P - Print

The Home, End, Page Up, Page Down and Delete keys are also missing, again there is a keyboard command to regain this function.

Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow key - Home

Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow key - End

Alt + Up Arrow key - Page Up

Alt + Down Arrow key - Page Down

Alt + Backspace - Delete the next letter

(forward delete)Ctrl + Backspace - Delete the previous word

Finally, the Chromebook keyboard has replaced the function keys (F1, F2, F3, etc) with browser buttons. Some of these browser buttons have secondary commands;

F4 + Shift – Full Screens the active window

Esc + Shift – Open Task Manager

Alt + F6 – Keyboard Brightness down

Alt + F7- Keyboard Brightness up

Ctrl + F4 – Mirror Monitor

Ctrl + F5 - Take Screenshot