Whether you're a touch-typist, a hunt-and-pecker — don't be embarrassed; I am too! — or you have your own keyboard habits, you should absolutely, positively get to know your Chromebook's keyboard! There are over 100 different things you can do with the keys alone, from accessing menus, re-organizing your windows, and multi-tasking. Some of these shortcuts you might already know, some might be new, but all will prove useful to you at one point or another in your Chromebooking life. Ctrl + Alt + / Find all your other shortcuts!

Few people actually memorize all the exact key combos that can unlock all these wonderful uses, but this combo is worth memorizing because it's a cheat sheet that pulls up all the other Chrome OS keyboard shortcuts. Alt + [ or ] or = Split and arrange your windows I do almost all of my work on a Chromebook, and while I'm no stranger to swapping between tabs, it's still far easier to split-screen windows when doing things like referencing device info or looking over design specs. Alt + [ pushes your window over to the left half of a split-screen. If the window is already in that position, the window will shift from the left to the center. Alt + ] pushes your window over to the right half of a split-screen. If the window is already in that position, the window will shift from the right to the center. Alt + = will maximize a window to fill the full width of your screen. If the window is already maximized, the window will shrink to its previous size. Alt + number Open pinned apps and Files You can pin your most-used apps to the dock in Chrome OS, and you can easily launch the first 8 apps in your dock with the combination of Alt and the corresponding number as you count from left to right, to demonstrate, here are the combinations for my dock!