A while ago, Google launched a neat extension for Chrome that lets you copy links that lead directly to a text on a webpage. This is a very useful feature, especially if you’re trying to share a specific part of a long article with someone. However, if you’re using a Chromebook, you can also have this feature work locally in your Chrome browser. Here’s how to enable it and copy link to text in Chrome OS.
Learn to Copy Link to Text on Chrome OS
Copy text link is not enabled by default on Chrome OS and Google is testing it as an experiment with Chrome OS 87. So the first thing you should do is make sure you’ve updated your Chromebook to Chrome OS 87. Once you’ve done that, follow our step-by-step instructions to get the feature up and running.
Enable Copy Link To Text On Chrome OS
We will use a Chrome flag to enable this feature on Chrome OS.
- In Chrome, go to chrome://flags to access all available Chrome flags for your system.
- Here, search for ‘copy link to text’ in the search bar. Change the status of the flag from default to ‘Enabled’.
- Restart your Chromebook by clicking/tapping the ‘Restart’ button at the bottom right of your screen.
That’s it, the feature is now enabled on Chrome OS and you can start using it.
How to Use Copy-to-Text Link on Chrome OS
Now that our feature is up and running, let’s see how to use it.
- Go to any web page where you want to copy the link. For example, I use one of our articles on the Beebom website.
- Select the text you want the link to redirect to.
- Now right click to open the context menu. Here you should see a new ‘copy link to text’ option. Click on it to copy the link into the text.
- When you (or someone you sent the link to) opens that link, it will open the webpage and highlight the text you selected when creating the link as you can see below. Pretty clean, right?
Easily Copy Links To Text On Chrome OS
Using hyperlinks to specific pieces of text on a web page is something I use a lot. A very useful little feature that comes in handy quite often. We hope this article helped you enable this feature on your Chromebook as well, and you are now using it to share more targeted links with people. While the steps mentioned here are pretty simple, let us know in the comments if you run into any particular issues.
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