How to Copy Link to Text in Chrome OS

Dec. 14, 2020

A while back, Google launched a neat extension for Chrome that allows you to copy links that lead directly to a piece of text within a web page. That’s a very useful feature, especially if you are trying to share a particular part of a long article with someone. However, if you are using aChromebookyou can actually get that feature working on your Chrome browser natively as well. Here is how to enable it, and how to copy link to text inChrome OS.

Learn to Copy Link to Text in Chrome OS

The copy link to text feature isn’t enabled by default on Chrome OS, and Google is sort of testing it as an experiment with Chrome OS 87. So the first thing you need to do is ensure you have updated your Chromebook to Chrome OS 87. Once you have done that, just follow along our step by step instructions to get the feature up and running.

We will be using a Chrome flag to enable this particular feature in Chrome OS.

That’s it, the feature is now enabled on Chrome OS and you can start using it.

Now that we have the feature up and running, let’s see how to use it.

Using hyperlinks that lead to particular pieces of text in a web page is something I use a lot. It’s a very useful little feature that comes in handy quite often. Hopefully, this article has helped you enable the feature on your Chromebook as well, and you are now using it to share more targeted links with people. Even though the steps mentioned here are pretty straight forward, if you are facing any issues with the feature, let us know in the comments.