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back in the early days of Chrome OS and
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Chromebooks there were only a handful of
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devices and only a handful of screen
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resolutions that's not the case these
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days and if you're going to buy a
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Chromebook screen resolutions one of the
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things we say hey you need to check out
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and make sure this is a resolution that
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works for you but because of all these
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differing screen resolutions aspect
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ratios and all that kind of stuff
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sometimes you're going to get a
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Chromebook out of the box and look at it
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and things are gonna be way too large on
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the screen or maybe they're a little bit
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too small on the screen and sure you can
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dig around in your settings to find out
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but there's a quick shortcut that can
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allow you to just change those display
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settings on the fly depending on what it
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is you're doing I use it all the time
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it's display scaling it's super simple
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to do so for this Chromebook tip Tuesday
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we want to take a look at how to quickly
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change your display scale settings of
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all the things we cover in these
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chromebook tip Tuesday videos this is by
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far probably the simplest thing to
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execute just as a couple key presses and
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you're gonna change your screens
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resolution up and down but before we do
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that I want to explain really quick
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exactly what it is you are doing and if
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we look on the screen here and I go to
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settings and then we go over to device
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we go to displays you can see on the
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internal display here that it said 100%
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this is the way your Chromebook is gonna
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come out of the box regardless of its
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resolution screen size all that kind of
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stuff they've decided at the factory 100
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percent is gonna be whatever on this
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Chromebook well this particular
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Chromebook the pixel book go is a 1920
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by 1080 panel well that kind of pixel
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resolution on a 13.3 inch screen looks a
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little bit more like this you can see
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natives show up there and you can see
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everything on the screen got pretty
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now that could work with this I could
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make this work but eventually there'd be
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some high strain and it's just not going
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to be very comfortable on a long basis
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but I tend to operate somewhere right
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around in the ninety percent range
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regardless of what it is I'm doing I
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don't want to be bouncing in and out of
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my settings menu to make that change all
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the time and so that's where this
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shortcut comes in because for different
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things I would like a little bit more
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screen real estate and for other things
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I kind of want things oom DUP so I don't
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have to work so hard to read stuff
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that's on the screen fortunately it's
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very simple to do that all you have to
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shift plus and minus and you can see
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stuff on the screen getting bigger even
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look up here at the top the Omni bar
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your tabs your icons at the bottom
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everything on the screen is scaling up
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and down it doesn't tell you exactly
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where you are in it so you just kind of
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work your way around and so everything
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looks good and then move on and then if
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you come to something later and it's
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like now this is too small
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cool just hit the plus and bump it up so
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all it is is ctrl shift plus or minus
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and it kind of makes sense ctrl shift -
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to make things smaller ctrl shift + to
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make things larger there's another
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shortcut you can do while you're in here
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and it's just controls to leave out the
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shift + and - it'll only work when
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you're in a chrome window and it will
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only work on that particular window so
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that that one tab and you can actually
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zoom in and out on just that tab it's
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the same exact thing you would do if you
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pinch zoom on the trackpad or on the
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screen so there's a little bonus tip
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there - but ultimately for me it works a
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little bit better to actually scale the
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entire display resolution because
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usually you're gonna look at the screen
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and either feel like me and everything's
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just huge on here I would like a little
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more space or you're gonna feel like
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everything so small I can't see anything
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and in general you're gonna vote want to
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bump everything up and so this takes
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care of that and it takes care of it in
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a very quick seamless and simple way and
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if you ever just want to get back to
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hundred percent or dig into your
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settings slide it back to 100% in your
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back to where it was out of the box but
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