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    Essential ChromeBook: The Illustrated Guide to using ChromeBook
    Essential ChromeBook: The Illustrated Guide to using ChromeBook
    Essential ChromeBook: The Illustrated Guide to using ChromeBook
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    Essential ChromeBook: The Illustrated Guide to using ChromeBook

    By Kevin Wilson

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    The twenty-first century offers more technology than we have ever seen before, but with new updates, and apps coming out all the time, it’s hard to keep up.


    Essential ChromeBook is here to help. Along with easy to follow step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and photographs, this guide offers specifics in...


    Setting up and personalising your ChromeBook


    Setting up Google Accounts


    Transferring your files


    Setting up printers & Cloud Print


    Pairing BlueTooth devices


    ChromeBook navigation with touchpad gestures


    Keyboard shortcuts


    Desktop, app launcher, and the app shelf


    Using email, Google Chrome web browser, and Google Hangouts


    Downloading apps and Chrome Extensions


    Playing music, downloading movies and TV programmes, and reading ebooks


    Setting up projectors and TVs for presentations or watching TV or movies


    Using HDMI & ChromeCast


    Google Photos, creating albums, and enhancing photos


    Using Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and more…


    Unlike other books and manuals that assume a computing background not possessed by beginners, Essential ChromeBook tackles the fundamentals of Google’s ChromeBook, so that everyone from students, to senior citizens, to home users pressed for time can understand.


    So, if you’re looking for a visual guide, simplified tutorial, dummies guide, or reference, Essential ChromeBook will help you maximize the potential of Google’s ChromeBooks to increase your productivity, and help you take advantage of the digital revolution.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElluminet Press
    Release dateDec 11, 2018
    ISBN9781911174837
    Essential ChromeBook: The Illustrated Guide to using ChromeBook
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    Kevin Wilson

    Kevin Wilson is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Nothing to See Here, which was a Read with Jenna book club selection; The Family Fang, which was adapted into an acclaimed film starring Nicole Kidman and Jason Bateman; and Perfect Little World; as well as the story collections Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award; and Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine. His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Southern Review, One Story, A Public Space, and Best American Short Stories. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife and two sons.

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      Essential

      ChromeBook

      Kevin Wilson

      Essential ChromeBook

      Copyright © 2018 Elluminet Press

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      Trademarked names, logos, and images may appear in this book. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked name, logo, or image we use the names, logos, and images only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark.

      The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights.

      While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein.

      Publisher: Elluminet Press

      Director: Kevin Wilson

      Lead Editor: Steven Ashmore

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      Copy Editors: Joanne Taylor, James Marsh

      Proof Reader: Mike Taylor

      Indexer: James Marsh

      Cover Designer: Kevin Wilson

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      About the Author

      Kevin Wilson has made a career out of technology and showing others how to use it. After earning a master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, and multimedia systems, Kevin worked as a tutor and college instructor, helping students master such subjects as multimedia, computer literacy and information technology. He currently serves as Elluminet Press Publishing’s senior writer and director, he periodically teaches computing at college in South Africa and serves as an IT trainer in England.

      Kevin’s motto is clear: If you can’t explain something simply, you haven’t understood it well enough. To that end, he has created the Computer Essentials series, in which he breaks down complex technological subjects into smaller, easy-to-follow steps that students and ordinary computer users can put into practice.

      Table of Contents

      What is a ChromeBook? 12

      Setting up your ChromeBook 16

      Creating a Google Account 16

      Initial Setup 17

      Personalise your ChromeBook 22

      Desktop Wallpaper 22

      Using your Own Photos 23

      Transferring your Files to ChromeBook 27

      Using Google Drive 27

      Using an External Drive 28

      Setting up Printers 30

      Cloud Enabled Wireless Printers 30

      Traditional Printers 32

      Adding Bluetooth Devices 34

      Getting around ChromeBook 36

      Power Up & Power Down 36

      The Login Screen 37

      The Touch Pad 38

      One Finger Tap 38

      Two Finger Tap 39

      One Finger Click and Drag 39

      Two Finger Scroll 40

      Two Finger Swipe 40

      Three Finger Swipe 41

      The Keyboard 41

      Onscreen Keyboard Help 42

      ChromeBook Task Manager 44

      Adding Users 45

      Add User with a Google Account 45

      Desktop and the App Shelf 46

      System Tray & Notifications 47

      App Launcher 48

      Pin Apps to your App Shelf 49

      Using Apps 50

      Chrome Web Store 50

      Browsing the Store 51

      Searching the Store 53

      Downloading New Apps 54

      Managing Apps 55

      Removing Apps 56

      Removing Chrome Extensions 56

      Web, Email & Communication 58

      Google Chrome 58

      Browser Tabs 59

      Browse Incognito 60

      Browsing History 61

      Bookmarking a Site 62

      Bookmark Folders 63

      Site Shortcuts 64

      Downloads 66

      Printing a Webpage 67

      Google Mail 68

      Reading Mail 69

      Writing a New Message 69

      Reply to a Message 71

      Adding Attachments 72

      Inserting Images 73

      Sending Money 75

      Adding Other Email Accounts 77

      Contacts 79

      View Contact Details 80

      Edit Details 81

      Add New Contact 82

      Add Contact from Message 83

      Calendar 84

      Calendar View 85

      Add Event 86

      Google Hangouts 89

      Messaging New Contacts 89

      Calling Someone New 91

      Calling Someone in Conversation Window 93

      Sending Images 95

      Sending Emoticons 97

      Entertainment 98

      Google Play Store 98

      Play Music 99

      Downloading Music 100

      Streaming Music 103

      Searching for Music 109

      Casting Music 111

      Play Books 112

      Downloading eBooks 113

      Play Movies & TV 115

      Browsing the Store 116

      Searching for Movies 117

      Watching Movies 120

      Searching for TV Shows 122

      Projectors & TVs 123

      HDMI 123

      ChromeCast 124

      Google Photos 126

      Viewing Photos 127

      Adjusting Photos 128

      Crop & Rotate Photos 131

      Creating Albums 133

      Collages 135

      Sharing Photos 136

      Sharing Albums 138

      Google Docs 140

      Getting Around Google Docs 140

      Using Paragraph Styles 142

      Headings 142

      Bold, Italic, Underlined 143

      Changing Fonts 143

      Font Colour 144

      Justify Text 144

      Bullets Lists 145

      Numbered Lists 147

      Cut, Copy & Paste 148

      Adding Images 149

      From your Chromebook 149

      From the web 150

      From your Photos 151

      From your Camera 152

      Formatting Images 153

      Cropping Images 154

      Adding Tables 155

      Inserting Rows & Columns 155

      Saving Documents 156

      Opening Saved Documents 157

      Printing Documents 158

      Sharing Documents 159

      Google Sheets 160

      What is a Spreadsheet 160

      Getting Around Google Sheets 163

      Simple Text Formatting 165

      Bold, Italic, Strike & Underlined 165

      Changing Fonts 166

      Font Size 166

      Cut, Copy & Paste 167

      Inserting Rows & Columns 168

      Cell Alignment 169

      Cell Borders 170

      Using Formulas 171

      Using Functions 172

      Count 172

      Auto Sum 173

      Types of Data 174

      Adding a Chart 176

      Google Slides 178

      Getting Around Google Slides 178

      Designing a Slide 181

      Add an Image 182

      From Photos 182

      From the Web 183

      From your Google Drive 183

      Resize an Image 184

      Crop an Image 185

      Add a Video 186

      Slide Layer Arrangement 188

      Add a New Slide 189

      Change Slide Layout 190

      Slide Masters 192

      Slide Transitions 194

      Slide Animations 195

      Effects 195

      Insert a Table 197

      Add a Chart 198

      Printing Presentations 199

      Giving your Presentation 200

      Present with ChromeCast 202

      What is a ChromeBook?

      ChromeBooks are designed by Google around the Google Chrome web browser and are designed to work almost completely online.

      ChromeBooks come with their own operating system called Chrome OS and has a very simple to use interface.

      It’s worth noting what a ChromeBook can do and what it can’t do. ChromeBooks are great for online collaboration - creating and

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