Ready to work like a pro on your Chromebook? Integrate these common Chromebook keyboard shortcuts to boost your productivity. For more tips, check out our guide to Chromebook basics.

 

Ctrl + Alt + ? – overlay of a keyboard with shortcuts

 

Search key + L – Lock your Chromebook’s screen.

 

Ctrl + Shift + Q – Log out of your Chromebook.

 

Ctrl + Shift + Q twice – Quit

 

Alt + E – Open the Chrome browser’s menu. This only works if a Chrome browser window is open and focused.

 

Alt + 1-8 – Launch apps located in shelf, with 1 being the leftmost app.

 

Alt + [ ] – Split screen

 

Alt + [ – Dock a window to the left side of your screen.

 

Alt + ] – Dock a window to the right side of your screen.

 

Ctrl + Switcher/F5 or screenshot key – Takes screen shot

 

Ctrl + Shift + Switcher/F5 or Alt + screenshot key – Partial screen shot: Use the cursor to select the part of the screen you want to save.

 

Alt + Search – Toggle caps lock. The Search key is in place of the caps lock key on a standard keyboard

 

Shift + Esc – Launch the Task Manager.

 

Looking for more? Visit the complete library of Chromebook shortcuts.

 

Web Shortcuts

 

If you are savvy with keyboard commands on a Windows laptop or MacBook, you may recognize some of these.

 

Ctrl + 1-8 – activates tabs 1-8 starting from left

 

Ctrl + 9 – Switches to last tab

 

Ctrl + T – opens new tab

 

Ctrl + W – closes current tab

 

For more web shortcuts, learn the 47 keyboard commands that work in all web browsers.

 

Text-Editing Shortcuts

 

Just as Chromebooks support a bevy of web shortcuts, they also supports most text-editing shortcuts.

 

Ctrl + backspace – deletes previous word

 

Alt + backspace – functions as a Windows delete key, deletes next character after cursor

 

Ctrl + Z – undo

 

Ctrl + C – copy

 

Ctrl + X – cut

 

Ctrl + V – paste