Hold down any combination of, Shift, Ctrl or Alt and the special functions of each key, in combination with the keys you're holding down, will be highlighted, including alternate ways to do some of the items listed above.Īnother option is to plug in a USB keyboard designed for a Windows-based computer, which has all the keys you will need. An image of the keyboard will appear on the screen.

To see all the possible keyboard shortcuts on your Chromebook, press Ctrl Alt+ ?. For another example, Shift + ⇨ will select text to the end of the line, as does Shift+ End on a standard computer. For example, Ctrl + ⇦ is the same as Ctrl+ Home, which, by convention, goes to the top of your document (this works in Microsoft Word Online, as well as Google Docs). You can try standard combinations with these as well. You can learn new key combination to emulate the missing keys, which are: Standard Key Unfortunately, Chromebooks don't come with the Page Up, Page Down, Home, End, and Insert keys that are very useful for navigating quickly around a word processing document or spreadsheet. Because of their fewer number, the keys are pleasantly large.

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