Hotmail is now Outlook.com. Learn how to sign in to access your Outlook.com, Hotmail, Live, or MSN email account.

Get training and help. Select the Help tab to contact customer support or see training videos. Use Search to find other commands or search through your email, contacts, and calendar.

Open files from the File menu. Excel for Microsoft 365 Word for Microsoft 365 More... The Open tab on the File menu shows a list of files you’ve recently opened, and it includes links to places where you commonly store files.

In Windows Media Player, you can play audio CDs, data CDs, and data DVDs that contain music or video files (also known as media CDs). You can also play video CDs (VCDs), which are similar to DVDs, although the video quality isn't as high.

Xbox Chat (13) and Xbox Social (14) – Start a text or voice chat, one on one or in a group. Connect with friends or make new ones and join a friend’s PC game or invite them to join yours. For more info, go to: Use Game Bar to play and chat with friends.

Open the Xbox app on your mobile device. Select your gamerpic, and then select Achievements. Choose any game in the list to review your achievements, and then select a secret achievement. Select Reveal to review additional info about the achievement.

Share your clipboard items to another Windows 10 device. Learn how to use the cloud-based clipboard in Windows, share clipboard items across your devices, and pin items to your clipboard menu.

How to earn Microsoft Rewards points. It’s easy to rack up Microsoft Rewards points and earn your way toward great rewards like gift cards, movies, games, nonprofit donations, and more. Stay signed in with your Microsoft account and you'll earn points for doing the things you already do.

You can add an animated GIF (or meme) to a PowerPoint slide as you would with any other picture file. You can insert a GIF file that is stored on your computer hard disk or in OneDrive. Select the slide that you want to add the animated GIF to. In the Insert tab of the ribbon, click Pictures.

If possible, use the same type of connection between your Surface or dock and your monitor. If you can’t use the same type of connection, we recommend one of these types of connections (in order of best results): USB-C, DisplayPort (Mini DisplayPort), HDMI, DVI, VGA.