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Over the course of the time Chromebooks have been available, they have become very adept at window management. From a useful overview mode to virtual desks to easy window snapping, Chrome OS has quite a few tricks up its sleeve to help you be productive with more than one window at once. Split-screen features have become numerous over that same time, and Chromebooks now have a wide variety of options for seating things side by side. So, with all the features available at your disposal, we wanted to take a few minutes and explain how to fully master split-screen mode on your Chromebook.
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over the years chromebooks have become
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increasingly adept at
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leveraging window management from
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overview mode to virtual desk to
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snapping windows to each side of the
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display there's a lot of stuff you can
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do
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with your windows on a chromebook and
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one of the
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often overlooked utilities that
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chromebooks offer is the ability to have
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split screen mode both in desktop and in
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tablet mode
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and so we want to talk about some of
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those tips and tricks that you can
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utilize to be a little bit more
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today all right let's
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let's start with our desktop clamshell
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you know kind of standard split screen
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stuff here
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the way i normally go about doing this
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and i think is probably the most
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beneficial and simplest to get to
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is to start by just grabbing the top bar
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pull down
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and if you push it over to the side
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you'll see that highlight and you let it
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go and you get a perfect
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50 percent width split screen
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then grab the next thing that you want
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and do the same thing on the other side
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boom now you have perfect split screen
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and there's something i'm going to show
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you here in just a second after we show
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you some of the other ways that you can
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get to those split screens
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that is beneficial uh especially on
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desktop but we're going to go full
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screen with that one again
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and we'll go full screen with this one
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again and show you that there's another
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way
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up here where you have your restore and
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minimize maximize buttons
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you can actually long press with your
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mouse
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and you can do the same thing with your
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hand it works either way
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and you'll see arrows pop up on the left
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and right again
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go over whichever arrow you want and it
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will go to that side we'll do the same
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thing with this one
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and boom we have split screen setup
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again additionally
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there are keyboard shortcuts for this so
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let's go full screen with them again
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and you can actually hit alt and your
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brackets so the brackets that are to the
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right of the p
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character on your keyboard so i'll hit
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alt and i'm going to put this one on the
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left side this time i'm going to hit the
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left bracket and it goes
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and then we'll select this window alt
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right bracket boom we have split screen
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once again
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so there's multiple ways to get into
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this mode now once you are in this mode
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regardless of how you got here
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you can actually hover over the divide
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line between the two and you'll see this
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quick little pop-up and this thing has
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been there since
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when i first started using chromebooks
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but a lot of people don't realize it
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because it's not always there and if
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if you go to grab and resize your
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windows really quickly it won't show up
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but if you hover for
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just a second and then go down over it
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it'll actually resize both of your
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windows at the same time
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and i find this to be really really
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helpful if i'm specifically trying to do
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something split screen
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if you grab one window by itself now
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it's like oh crap this one's covering
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over this and i got to try to resize but
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as soon as you lock them together
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they'll snap together
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hover and you can grab this thing and
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resize both at the same time
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and one final trick that they have added
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in the last couple versions of chrome os
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is from the overview screen so once you
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get to this screen and you have your
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windows
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you can actually go split screen with
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them from here as well so
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i can just grab one of these screens and
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you'll see the the spots appear on the
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left and right similar to what you see
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in tablet mode
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and as soon as you drag it you see the
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animation and it's ready to go so i can
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drop that one there and then choose
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whichever other one i want up
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boom same thing supply if i hover
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between the two
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i can multi resize and we can pull them
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right off the top
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and they'll go back to full screen just
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like that
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all right so we've transitioned over now
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to tablet mode so whether it's a
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convertible device you're using or just
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a standalone tablet
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there are some split screen tricks that
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you can use here as well
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and they mimic you know what you had on
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the desktop setup so it's not completely
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different it's just the way you go about
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getting into them when you're only using
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touch
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for right now with chrome os we're at
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chrome os 87
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it looks like an 88 or 89 they're going
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to get rid of this but you have the
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ability to actually move into
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multitasking
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from a swipe down or a swipe up i think
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they're going to get rid of the swipe
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down from the top eventually so
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do know that if you're watching this a
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little bit down the road that it might
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not work going swipe down
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but swipe up would be the only option
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you would have there but either way
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right now
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that's how you get into multitasking
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mode and kind of your overview mode and
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so you can just bounce back and forth
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between windows this way
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well this is also the way that you're
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going to go just like with the overview
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mode in
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in clamshell mode you can swing over
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here to the side
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and boom you got your second your half
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window over here and we can open the
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second window by just touching one of
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the other ones
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and same thing applies here i can swipe
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down or i can swipe up
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on on this side of the screen and choose
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any of my other open applications i can
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choose any of my shelf applications
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it is worth noting if you need something
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else kind of from your main home screen
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that you haven't been working with
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when you flip up to home it's going to
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kind of get rid of all that split screen
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setup so you're going to kind of have to
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start from the beginning again so
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say i open the web store now it's just
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going to open in a full page
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but you can pull your tabs right off and
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then do the same thing with it and boom
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we have our side by side set up again so
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regardless of whether you're going from
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just from the overview or you're going
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from a minimized
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to half screen either one works as long
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as you get that window over to the right
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side
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it's going to pop it into a side-by-side
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view now it's a little bit different
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once you are side by side as far as
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re-sizing these windows they are going
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to resize at the exact same time but a
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lot of people get frustrated with this
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because
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they want to just go grab it and resize
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it and as you see it doesn't do that and
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i think that's for some good reasons you
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don't want to accidentally be resizing
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stuff
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constantly when you're hitting in the
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area that's between the two so
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what you need to do is find this little
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white dash that's right here in the
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middle
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and if you hover your finger on it for
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just a second you see that that
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divider bar splits open a little bit
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once it does that it's ready to resize
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so if i just swipe it doesn't do
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anything but if i hold
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now i can resize things it is important
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to note that
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on tablet mode with chrome os you
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basically get a one quarter three
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quarter
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half and half or one quarter three
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quarter that's the only views you get
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you can't go from here to just like
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right
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there it's going to bounce itself back
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to the closest measurement
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so if i get close to that one quarter
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it's going to drop itself to the one
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quarter
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if i get close to the half it's going to
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go back to the half and so you can kind
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of just play with those and work them
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around
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however you see fit to make your windows
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layout the way that you need them most
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people on
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a tablet are probably going to want your
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main window and something over here on
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the side but you know
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whatever you need you can do and when
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you're ready to switch swipe up or swipe
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down
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pick the other application you need boom
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you got split screen productivity so
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that about wraps up everything you can
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do from a split screen perspective on a
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chromebook whether you're in clamshell
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or you're in tablet mode we really hope
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this kind of stuff helps you all out
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we're trying to do more and more of
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these
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so that whether you've been working on
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chromebooks for years or you're brand
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new to chrome os
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you can learn some of these finer
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details about how to be productive and
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get around the os but that's it for this
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