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  • Page 2 V I S U A L Q U I C K S t A r t G U I D E Microsoft Surface Joni Blecher Peachpit Press...
  • Page 3 Education. Bing, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, SkyDrive, Surface, Windows, Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox LIVE are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks.
  • Page 4 Dedication To the holdouts: Your tablet has surfaced.
  • Page 5 It is he who introduced me to Mark Davis, the tech editor of this book. Mark’s 20 years of experience developing custom Microsoft software and his most recent work as a Windows 8 software developer have proved invaluable in this project. I truly appreciate his wealth of knowledge and effortless way of connecting the tech dots.
  • Page 6 ..... . . Chapter 2 navigating the Surface Tablet ... . .
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  • Page 8: Table Of Contents

    ..... . . Get to Know Your Surface Tablet Hardware ..2 The Start Screen......4 PC Settings.
  • Page 9 Chapter 5 Calendar ......Calendar Views ..... . . 78 Calendar Appointments .
  • Page 10 Chapter 11 Camera ......Taking Pictures......166 Recording Video.
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  • Page 12 You can even run two apps any first-to-market device, there are some simultaneously side by side on the screen bugs. The good news is that the Surface using a new feature called snapping. The tablet is updateable, and system and app Start screen is filled with graphical squares updates are continually pushed out to it.

  • Page 13: Getting Started

    What This Book Will Teach You This book is designed to help you use the Surface tablet. It includes how to use The book has 15 chapters. The first three many of the Microsoft apps on the Surface focus on teaching you how to use the tablet.

  • Page 14: Messaging

    What’s Not in This Book two apps and teaches you how to use them to perform Internet searches, surf Although the Surface tablet runs a version the web, and bookmark websites. of Microsoft Windows 8, this isn’t a book Chapter 9, “Tile-Based Apps,” cov-...

  • Page 15: Conventions Used

    Names of links are in italics. Images in the book often include callouts At the center base of the Surface tablet is or a bullet list that describe elements in the a Windows button. This is different from image.
  • Page 16 Mail and Outlook.com The Mail, People, Calendar, and Messag- In This Chapter ing apps share account information. That means that if you enter your Gmail email Mail Accounts account to add contacts to the People app, you will also be able to access the Gmail Email account in the Mail app.
  • Page 17 1. Tap the Mail tile on the Start screen. > Create an email. Tap the plus (+) button to start a new email. 2. On the Add Your Microsoft Account screen, enter your Microsoft email > Sync. Tap this button to refresh address and password.
  • Page 18 To add another email account: You can add additional email accounts to the mailbox so you can view all your email accounts in one app. 1. Swipe in from the right of the screen and tap the Settings charm. Tap Accounts, and tap the Add an account link 2.

  • Page 19: Email Accounts

    To manage and remove email accounts: 1. Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, tap the Settings charm, and tap Accounts. 2. Tap the email account that you want to manage or remove (Hotmail, Outlook, Google, AOL, Yahoo, or Other). Options for that email account appear ...
  • Page 20 Tap the text box and type a message that you want to appear at the end of all emails sent from this account on the Surface tab- let. Drag the slider to turn the feature on or off.

  • Page 21: Working With Email

    Email New Message Respond Even if you have a lot of email accounts in the Mail app, handling email from different Delete accounts is straightforward. You can mark emails as unread or move them into folders Create and already created within that email account. send email.
  • Page 22 2. Tap the down arrow next to your name, > Italic. To make text italic, select some and tap the email account you want to text and tap this button; or tap this use to send the email. button before typing. 3.
  • Page 23 To view email attachments: You can save email attachments to folders on the Surface tablet. 1. Tap an email that has an attachment. The contents of the email appear in the Opening message section of the screen.
  • Page 24 To save an email attachment: Changes made to the location of emails in an account on the Surface tablet are synced, 1. Tap an email that has an attach- and the changes appear wherever you access ment, tap the attachment file, and that email account.
  • Page 25 SkyDrive. It’s a cloud-based way to access information in all those accounts. Although Outlook.com is not part of the Surface tablet, it is another way to interact with some of the apps on the Surface tablet when you’re away from the tablet.
  • Page 26 To access Outlook.com: 1. Open a web browser, type Outlook.com, and press Enter. 2. Type your Microsoft email account and password in the text boxes. Click the Sign In button. Your Microsoft email account inbox Quick view categories appears. (Note that none of the non-...
  • Page 27 To create a new Mail folder: The first screen you see when entering Outlook.com is Mail. Tapping Mail in the navigation bar is just a shortcut back to this screen. Since you can’t create new folders in the Mail app, you will need to create them in Outlook.com so they will appear in the Mail app on the tablet.
  • Page 28 Click the Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, or Import from File icon 3. Click the Connect button. Enter your Microsoft email and password, and click the Sign In button. 4. Enter the email address and password associated with the account you’re con- necting to, and click either OK, I’ll Allow...
  • Page 29 4. Click the Share This Calendar option. Click the Keep Me Signed In check box to avoid having to enter your Microsoft email Options for how you want to share address and password every time you access appear Outlook.com from the same computer.

  • Page 30: Index

    Index Share charm, 111–112 Trending feature, 109 account picture, selecting, 11. See also pictures Bluetooth, turning on, 29 Airplane Mode, turning on, 48 Bluetooth devices albums connecting, 30 playing in Music app, 217 pairing, 30 sorting in Music app, 208 renaming, 30 app bar brightness, adjusting, 47...
  • Page 31 66–67 camera microphone, turning on and off, 174 Email app bar, 69 Camera Roll folder, 177, 193 email attachments cameras, locating on Surface tablet, 2 saving, 71 capital letters, creating, 55 viewing, 70 charms, accessing, 41 emoticons keyboard layout, 56...
  • Page 32 resetting tablet, 23 ergonomic, 57 spelling options, 22 input methods, 54 time, 20 optional, 3 touch keyboard, 21 Paste command, 57 viewing storage, 23 QWERTY, 55–57 gestures. See touch gestures kickstand, 2 handwriting recognition language options, setting, 22, 60, 62 improving, 60–62 locations Language Preferences, 60, 62...

  • Page 33: Pc Settings

    90–91 onscreen keyboards. See also keyboards; touch microphone for camera, settings for, 174 keyboard options microSDXC port, 3 displaying, 48 Microsoft Surface. See Surface tablet features, 55 movies. See also Video app stylus versus handwriting, 58 buying, 189–190 Outlook.com...

  • Page 34: Users

    app bar, 178 using, 42 aspect ratio, 179 Video app, 198–199 cropping photos, 179 Search settings, changing, 17 home screen, 180 searching with Bing, 109–110 Search charm, 182 Settings charm Settings charm, 184 Bing, 113 Share charm, 183 Calendar app, 83–84 pictures.

  • Page 35: Notifications

    36 creating sign-in options, 14–15 Sync Your Settings option, accessing, 28 Video app. See also movies; Xbox Video Store tablet. See Surface tablet Account settings, 201 tap touch gesture, 36 app bar, 191 text, using touch mode for, 59...

  • Page 36: Wireless

    video information, sharing, 200 Windows Update feature, accessing, 27 video settings, adjusting, 168 wireless settings, accessing, 26 videos writing style, setting, 61 adding to My Videos folder, 194–195 contrast and brightness, 168 deleting, 172 Xbox 360 friends, 158 playing, 192–193, 196–197 Xbox 360 Games Store, using, 160–161.

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