My wife recently got hold of an Acer Chromebook. She just got a promotion in her job, and part of said promotion was a laptop so that she can work 18 hours a day more efficiently.
The biggest question we both had less than 10 monies after switching it on was: how to we take a screenshot with this thing?
Short Answer
To take a full screenshot, press CTRL + F5.
To take a partial screenshot, press SHIFT + CTRL + F5. Now left-drag the area you’d like to take a screenshot of.
If your Chromebook doesn’t have F keys, look for a rectangle with two lines next to it. It’s known as the Switch Window key. It’ll most likely be the fifth key from the left in the top row, not including the ESC key. It looks like this:
Resulting files will be stored in the Downloads folder.
Further Reading
Let Google dazzle you with a whole host of keyboard shortcuts available for Chromebooks:
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