Do you rely on your mouse for all the work you do, or are you a keyboard person? I used to be mouse all the way, but the more I use a Chromebook, the more I rely on keyboard shortcuts. It's just a very efficient way of doing things, and I'm aaalllll about efficiency, ya'll. If you aren't sure what keyboard shortcuts you have at your disposal on your Chromebook, you can hold down Ctrl, alt, + ? which will bring up this super handy keyboard menu: Keyboard shortcuts traditionally start with Ctrl, Shift, Alt, or a combination of two of those. Then you can hit various keys to make things happen. The menu you get by holding down Ctrl, alt, + ? lets you see what keys do what function. For example, for the screenshot above, I opened the menu and held down Ctrl + Shift. This brought up what you see in the screenshot: all the functions available by holding down Ctrl + Shift. Most people are familiar with Ctrl + c or Ctrl + v for copy and paste, but there are SO many more shortcuts out there. Here are a few of my favorites: The rotate screen 90 degrees is handy to know because students often use this to make their screen spin in circles (both clever and annoying, right?). I am currently obsessed with the paste without formatting shortcut (yes, obsessed with a keyboard shortcut, I am a nerd). Say you are copying and pasting information from one Google Slide file to another. If you paste without formatting, the text will adhere to the font, size and color of the second Google Slide file, so you don't have to go through and reformat everything. It also helps when I'm doing works cited pages; I can copy and paste without formatting author names and article titles directly from websites, and I don't have to worry about them pasting in my document all huge and weird and then having to fix it. You can see all the Chromebook shortcuts by using the Ctrl + Alt + ? I mentioned above, or you can go here to see them spelled out for you. Hope you find something to make your life a little easier! Computer clipart from pexels.com
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