After you turn on two-step verification or set up the Authenticator app, you may run into issues if you use older devices (like Xbox 360 or a mail-sending security camera) that don't support two-step verification. For those devices, you can sign in with an app password instead. An app password is a long, randomly generated password that you provide only once instead of your regular password ...

You can right-click the contact group and select Delete from the menu or click the group, then select Delete from the Ribbon.. Contacts are not deleted, only the contact list.

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Important: Before trying any of the solutions below, make sure you back up your personal files. You can back up your Windows PC, or insert a USB drive and use File Explorer to drag and copy important files to the USB drive.If you’re signing into Windows with a Microsoft account, your system settings will be automatically restored after updating, once you’re connected to the internet.

Undo an action. Press + Z, or select Undo in the upper-left corner of the ribbon, until you've fixed the issue.. You can't undo some actions, such as selecting commands on the File menu or saving a file. If you can't undo an action, the Undo command changes to Can't Undo.. To undo several actions at the same time, select the arrow next to Undo, select the actions in the list that you want to ...

For a black screen, use the following keyboard shortcut: Windows logo key + Ctrl + Shift + B.

Focused Inbox. Focused Inbox helps you focus on the emails that matter most. It separates your inbox into two tabs—Focused and Other. If messages aren't sorted the way you like, you can move them and set where to deliver future messages from that sender.

Make sure you get the ID from a console you use a lot. If you recently bought a new one, try to get the hardware ID from your old console. For more information about recovering accounts you use with an Xbox console, see Reset or recover your lost Microsoft account password .

Note: If you use a Manual Table of Contents style, Word won't use your headings to create a table of contents and won't be able to update it automatically. Instead, Word will use placeholder text to create the look of a table of contents so you can manually type each entry into the table of contents.

Use multiple desktops in Windows to organize projects, or quickly switch between desktops before a meeting.