How to Rotate your Chromebook screen (Keyboard Shortcut)

Summary

If you press ctrl, shift, and the refresh key, your screen should rotate 90 degrees each time.

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Overview

This article explains how to rotate your Google Chromebook screen 90 degrees, using keyboard shortcuts

Target Audience: Students, Parents, and Staff

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. To rotate the screen, make sure that you are already logged in, or at least at the log-in screen of the chrome book
  2. Locate the three keys on the keyboard  ctrl, shift, and the Refresh key
    • How to Rotate Screen on Chromebook - Chrome Story
  3. Once you have located the three keys, you are going to press all three of them together. 
    • Another way of doing it, is to press the refresh key while already holding ctrl, and shift.
  4. Then a Dialogue box will appear and will say, "You pressed the keyboard shortcut for screen rotation. Do you want to rotate screen?" Please click the blue button Continue.
    • Notice when you clicked Continue, it rotated 90 degrees
    • If continue to do the same steps, it will not ask for permission and should keep rotating each time you do it.

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Article ID: 2359
Created
Wed 12/3/25 4:34 PM
Modified
Wed 12/3/25 6:44 PM