How To Screenshot On Google Chromebook

Press ctrl show windows at the same time everything on screen will be in your screenshot.

How to screenshot on google chromebook. After holding down these buttons in sequence your cursor will turn into a small cross. Capture a full screenshot to take a screenshot of. Hold down the ctrl shift switch window keys to capture a specific area. Click on copy to clipboard if you d like to paste the screenshot into a document.

If your keyboard doesn t have a screen switcher key use f5 instead. The most common way to take a screenshot with a chromebook is to grab the whole screen and your chromebook can do this easily enough by pressing the ctrl show windows key this is the function. The screen switcher key is the one with a rectangle and two vertical lines to its right. To combat this the engineers at google added one extra shortcut which allows you to screenshot the specific area you want to copy and nothing else on top.

As soon as you press this keyboard shortcut the screen will dim and your mouse pointer will turn in a cross hair. Click and drag out a box over the portion of the screen you want to take a snap of.