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Chromebooks are built to be easy to understand and simple to navigate. A big part of that navigation lies in the powerful, flexible trackpad that rests just beneath your Chromebook's keyboard. This input method wields a lot of power over Chrome OS, but just because Chromebooks are meant to be streamlined, simplified computers, that doesn't mean they come entirely without a learning curve. With that in mind, we wanted to put together a simple, quick guide to all the things you can do with your Chromebook's built-in trackpad.
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chromebooks are designed to be simple
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devices they're designed to be simple to
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start up and use and simple to navigate
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one of the main ways you navigate them
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though is with the trackpad
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and google's done a great job over the
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years of building in all sorts of
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gestures to help you move through the os
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and just because it's a simple device
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it doesn't mean that there's no learning
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curve whatsoever so we wanted to put
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together a quick guide that kind of
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encompasses
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all the gestures that you can use on a
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chromebook trackpad
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okay so let's dive into some of these
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gestures but before we do that
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we do need to talk about a couple
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settings that will help you interpret
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all the things i'm going to say and show
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you so if you go under your device in
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your settings menu
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and we go into touchpad there's tap to
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click tap to drag
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and then there's reverse scrolling tap
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to click and tap to drag or things i
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leave off i prefer to just click the
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trackpad but a lot of people would
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rather just tap it and
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that just allows a brief tap to register
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a click
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for the sake of this video i'm going to
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turn that on i'm also going to turn on
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tap dragging so we can kind of see how
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those things work here in just a second
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and then reverse scrolling i tend to
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like to leave that turned on because
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ultimately whenever you're scrolling
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stuff i would rather just like if i was
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going to reach up and touch the
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touchscreen i would
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i would slide my hand from low to high
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in order to move
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down the screen because it's kind of
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like paper or anything else i'm going to
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move it that way
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well i want to do the same thing with my
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track pad so i if i'm going to go down
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the screen i kind of would prefer
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the content to move along with my
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fingers not everybody likes that
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so you can make that difference in the
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settings right there and switch it to
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your liking
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so let's begin with single finger
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gestures and you can't
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really call these gestures i guess they
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kind of are i mean you're moving on the
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on the track pad but you know everybody
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kind of knows that you move your finger
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around the track pad the mouse cursor
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moves around on the screen so that's
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that's
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your main single finger function here
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but you can also select things and just
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as i said with either a tap if you have
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it turned on or a click
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you can actually select what things you
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would like to open
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or move around the screen so if i drag
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this down
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if i double tap when we turn that on
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double tap to drag when i tap tap
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i can now drag this around and then let
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go
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and again i turn this off because every
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once in a while you kind of miss on that
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and stuff moves and you don't really
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want it to
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but again single finger those are
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basically what you have working here
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you have grab and move things around
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you can select things
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and you can move your mouse around two
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finger gestures are where we start
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getting into some pretty
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interesting stuff so let's single click
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again here and open up some content
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we'll go
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to chrome unboxed and if i want to
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scroll down the page instead of
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you know a mouse wheel or holding any
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other buttons just enable two fingers
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on the track pad and immediately you can
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scroll up and down the page to your
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heart's content
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additionally with this with a pinch in
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and out
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you can zoom in and out on the content
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just like you would on a phone or a
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tablet
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a lot of people are used to this
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additionally those two fingers
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not just up and down can move in other
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directions around the screen as well
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so if you're in a document that has some
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left to right
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that you need to navigate you can do
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that with just two fingers this way
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if you need to go up and down the
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document up and down this way and then
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you can also pinch and zoom
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to your heart's content around the same
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content
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additionally adding in that second
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finger when you go to click or tap
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brings up your context menu and the
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context menu is what most of us think of
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as our right click menu if you grew up
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using windows
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you know that you can right click on all
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kinds of stuff and get all kinds of
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context menus well
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it's similar to like a long press on
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android or long press in
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ios or a right click on windows there's
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other
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functionality hiding behind the context
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menus and to pull that up
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a two-finger tap or a two-finger click
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will bring up that extra context menu
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depending whether you're in chrome or
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all sorts of different apps android apps
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and all that stuff everybody
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programs different stuff in for that
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two-finger click and again you can do it
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with a click
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or a tap okay so let's move on to three
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fingers
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and when we move to three finger
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gestures we're getting into more
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os type navigation and some of this
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stuff is very unique to chrome os
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and the first one we've talked about
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before on both youtube and on our
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website
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is the three finger gesture to scrub
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tabs so if i open up multiple tabs up
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here on the top
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and i'll get into some different content
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on each one just so you can kind of see
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what we're doing google search cool
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and we'll just do another chrome unboxed
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okay so i have four different tabs
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instead of going here single clicking on
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the tab single clicking on the tab
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single clicking on a tab with a three
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finger swipe i can actually move
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through those open tabs and so as i need
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to get between one tab and the next i
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use this
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constantly when i'm adding stuff from
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multiple pages
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it allows me to just swipe over swipe
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back swipe over
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copy swipe back click something it's a
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very very handy gesture for productivity
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next up and probably just as productive
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if not more
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is the three finger swipe up now it
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doesn't matter how you have your
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scrolling whether it's turned into
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reverse or standard this is always now
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they've made this a three swipe
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three finger swipe upward to get to the
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overview mode now there is a key on your
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keyboard that does this as well
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if you're like me you're almost always
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going to swipe three fingers up to get
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to this so three finger swipe up
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and you're in overview mode and i'm
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going to show you i'm going to break
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these out as separate windows here
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just so you kind of get a little bit
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more of a feel for what that looks like
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in case you've not used this there we go
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so now i've got three separate windows
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overview mode boom i see all of my
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windows open
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and i can click into any of them at this
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point and as we've talked about in the
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mastering split screen from this mode
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you can then drag
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stuff to either side and kind of do
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split screen modes that's not really a
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gesture on the trackpad it's just a nice
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cool feature of the overview mode and
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then one final trick i want to show you
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with a three finger
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click a lot of people don't really think
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about clicking anything with the three
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fingers
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this actually takes the place of if you
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had a mouse scroll wheel and you
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click down on that mouse scroll wheel so
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if there's any gestures that you're used
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to using with that this is the only one
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i can think of but
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this is a handy effective little tool
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here
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this allows you to close tabs down
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without having to hunt for the little x
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here so
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i just have to get my mouse cursor over
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this tab anywhere three finger click and
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boom that tab's gone
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cool and so it's nice if you're trying
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to just knock out some tabs just
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getting in the in the habit of three
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finger clicking to kill those tabs
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it's just a whole lot easier than
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hunting down that little bitty x and
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making sure and clicking on it and
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finally we come to
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four finger gestures again the more
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fingers you add into these gestures
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almost the more complex things get here
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so when we talk about four finger
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gestures there's a couple things that
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you can do
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so i'm gonna go back into this overview
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mode again three fingers
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swiping upward i'm gonna add a new desk
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and so desks
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help you get productive by putting stuff
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on multiple
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entire desktops and the reason this is
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productive is you can kind of set this
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desktop up to look one way
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and then another desktop up to look
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another way well it's nice to be able to
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get between these desktops pretty
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quickly and again there are keyboard
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shortcuts or you could swipe up
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and single finger click to get to that
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desk and those are fine
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but when you're really trying to be
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productive and move through things it's
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nice to be able to almost feel like
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you're just
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turning and looking at that next monitor
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that's next to you and for that
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a four-finger swipe in either direction
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gets you to that next adjacent desk
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one swipe boom we're there one swipe
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boom we're there one swipe
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boom we're there and it's just a nice
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trick to have up your sleeve if you like
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using virtual desks instead of going up
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and clicking
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through each one to be able to
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four-finger swipe boom between desks
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it's just a really really handy tool to
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have all right guys
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so that's basically it there are going
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to be more gestures that show up and
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there's going to be stuff that changes
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and
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and things that may move around a little
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bit and they may add a swipe here or
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swipe there but in general when you're
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talking about navigating the os
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as a whole these gestures are the ones
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that you're going to use
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most and the ones that are going to help
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you be most effective on a chromebook
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and
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we generally hope that this helps you
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out and helps you to be more productive
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and just
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helps you enjoy your chromebook a little
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