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Copying and pasting with keyboard shortcuts 

Copy and paste without formatting

Copying and pasting by right-clicking

Other copying and pasting tips

  • As well as two-finger clicks on the trackpad, you can also access the menu by holding the ALT key and clicking on the trackpad at the same time.  You can use the two-finger or ALT+click trick to copy video URLs (e.g. to share YouTube videos) with ease. To copy an entire page, rather than just a selected snippet of text use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+A. This will copy everything and anything on the page though.  If you need to copy multiple things at once then there are Chromebook extensions that can help. MultiCopy Clipboard, Copy & Paste is one example worth trying. This stores things locally so you can access them when you need them too.