On a device that uses battery power, if you select Start > Settings > Personalization > Taskbar and the Power toggle is greyed out or not visible, in the Search box on the taskbar, type device manager, and then select Device Manager in the list of results. Under Batteries, right-click (or long-press) the battery for your device, select Disable, and select Yes.

For all Surface models Before you start, make sure you don’t have any other USB devices connected to your Surface, including USB mouse devices, keyboards, or other storage drives.

Contact Microsoft Support. What's new. Surface Pro; Surface Laptop; Surface Laptop Studio 2

Whether you’re creating a new document or working on an existing one, Copilot can help you move forward. In a new, blank document or upon creating new line in an existing document, the Draft with Copilot experience appears.. The description you provide can be a simple sentence or a more complex request with outlines, notes, or referenced files that you want Copilot to use.

List view. A unique feature of the Tasks app how it displays tasks and information associated with them in rows and columns. This is called List view, and allows you to change many tasks at once, which wasn't as possible in either To Do or Planner before.

Ensure these modes create an alert that is visible on your device. Make sure you have a device signal and Internet connection. Make sure your phone calls and text messages are getting through to your mobile device.

Optimizations for windowed games improves gaming on your PC by using a new presentation model for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 games that appear in a window or in a borderless window.

As a meeting presenter, you can use Microsoft Forms to create polls before your Microsoft Teams meeting, then launch them during it so attendees from any endpoint (mobile, web, desktop) can view and answer. When you launch your poll, it will pop up on attendees' meeting screens as well as in the meeting chat. Attendees can also create ad-hoc polls during a meeting to get quick feedback on the ...

Create a code. When you send someone a code to join a team, they can join directly—you won’t receive a join request. You can use the code as many times as you want.

A text box is an object you can add to your document that lets you put and type text anywhere in your file. Text boxes can be useful for drawing attention to specific text and can also be helpful when you need to move text around in your document.