If your Surface won’t turn on, turns on and then off, or starts and gets stuck on a screen—a black screen, a screen with a logo, or another screen—here's what you can try to get it working again. Applies to. The info on this page applies to the following devices:

At the command prompt, type adb sideload followed by the name of the recovery .zip file you downloaded in the previous procedure. For example, if the recovery file name is Surface-recovery-image.zip, you’d type this at the command prompt, and then press Enter: adb sideload surface-recovery-image.zip The recovery image will take about 10 minutes or so to install.

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 ...

Change other default settings in the Normal template. You can customize the Normal template and change default settings for many aspects of a document, such as text formatting, paragraph formatting, document formatting, styles, text, pictures, AutoText entries, and keyboard shortcuts.

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A Blue cloud or a cloud with an arrow icon next to your OneDrive files or folders indicates that the file is only available online. Online-only files don’t take up space on your computer. You can’t open online-only files when your device isn’t connected to the Internet. Learn more about OneDrive Files On-Demand.

Cookies are small pieces of data stored on your device by websites you visit. They serve various purposes, such as remembering login credentials, site preferences, and tracking user behavior.

Ctrl+T. Create a new subpage below the current page. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+N. Enable or disable the full-page view. F11. Put the focus on the current page tab. Ctrl+Alt+G. Move or copy the current page. Ctrl+Alt+M. Select the current page. Ctrl+Shift+A. Jump to and select the page title. Ctrl+Shift+T. Open a search box to search all currently open ...

This is incredibly important if a mistake was made, you have issues with malware or a virus, or you just prefer a previous version. This is also important when you're collaborating with others and someone makes changes you didn't want in a file. The experience for Version History is similar across your apps.

Top of Page. Contacts (People) keyboard shortcuts. The People view is your address book in Outlook where your personal contacts are stored and where you can open any address book that has been set up for your organization. The People, Mail, and Calendar views work together so you can easily send mail to and schedule appointments with your most important people.