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 a Chromebook you 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 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.

  • Enable Copy Link to Text Feature in Chrome OS
  • How to Use Copy Link to Text in Chrome OS

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.