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Table Of Contents

Meet Surface 2
- About this guide
- Surface 2 features
Set up your Surface
- Plug in and turn on
- Setup
  - Surface 2 (AT&T 4G LTE): Set up your mobile broadband connection
The basics
- Touch, keyboard, mouse, and pen
- Start screen
- Open apps
- Touch: Swipe, tap, and beyond
- Charms
- Learn more about Windows
- Lock screen and signing in
Switch between open apps
App commands: Where are they?
Get started
- Get online
- Set up your email
  - Outlook RT: Add your email accounts
  - Mail: Add your email accounts
- People: Add contacts
- Skype: Add contacts
- SkyDrive: Your personal cloud
- Make it yours
Get to know Surface 2
- Power states: On, off, standby, and restart
  - Turn on or wake
  - Standby
    - Choose when the screen turns off
- Charging
- The touchscreen
- On-screen keyboard
- The Kickstand
- Typing Covers (keyboards)
- Touchpad
  - Touch Cover 2 and Type Cover 2: Additional touchpad gestures
  - How do I change the touchpad settings?
- Sound features
- The desktop
  - When will I go to the desktop?
Use apps
- Find and open apps
- Switch between open apps
- Use apps together (side by side)
- Close an app
  - Close desktop apps
- App commands
- App settings and help
- Problems with an app?
Search, share, and settings
- How to search
- Share photos, links, and more
- Change your settings
Accounts and sign in
- What type of account do I have?
  - What is a Microsoft account?
- Create another account
  - Family Safety (child account)
- Manage accounts
- Unlock and sign in
  - Choose when a password is required
  - Other sign in options
    - Create a PIN
    - Create a picture password
- Sign out or lock
  - Sign out or lock. What’s the difference?
- Change your password
- Account security
Apps and games from the Windows Store
- Your account
- Get apps
- Delete an app
  - How much space is an app using?
- Reinstall an app
- App updates
Personalize your Surface
- Add your accounts
- Personalize the Start screen
- Change your lock screen
- Notifications
  - Hide notifications
  - Lock screen app notifications
- Add a language
- Desktop background, colors, and sounds
Connect devices
- Connect a USB mouse, printer, and more
- Use a mouse
  - Change your mouse settings
- Use a capacitive pen
- Add a Bluetooth device
- Add, remove, and manage your devices and printers
  - What devices work with Surface 2?
- How do I print?
  - Printing topics
  - Can’t print?
- How do I scan something?
- Connect to a TV, monitor, or projector
Storage, files, and backup
- How much disk space do I have?
- Additional storage options
- Files and folders
- Add files to Surface
- Back up your files using File History
Networking
- Connect to a Wi-Fi network
  - No Wi-Fi networks?
- Disconnect from a Wi-Fi network
- Connect to a wired network
- Join a homegroup
- Join a workgroup
- Get to files on other computers
- Connect to a Virtual Private Network (VPN)
  - Set up a new VPN connection
  - Connect or disconnect from a VPN
- Workplace join
- Airplane mode
- Tethering: Use your phone’s data connection
  - Step 1: Share your phone’s Internet connection
  - Step 2: On Surface, select your phone as a network
- Remote Desktop: Connect to another PC
Built-in apps
- Office 2013 RT
- OneNote
- Internet Explorer 11
- Mail
- People
  - Connect with people
  - Post status updates and Tweets
- Calendar and reminders
  - Calendar help
- Camera
- Music
- Photos
  - Import photos or videos
  - Edit photos
- Video
  - Play videos
- Skype
  - Set up Skype
  - Call and chat
- SkyDrive
- Xbox Games
  - SmartGlass
- Maps
- More built-in apps
Additional info you should know
- Keep Surface up to date
- How can I help protect my Surface from viruses?
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Accessibility
- Speech recognition
- Take a screen shot
- BitLocker recovery key
- Refresh Surface
- Reset Surface
Accessories
Mobile networking on Surface 2 (4G LTE)
- Connect to a mobile broadband network
- Disconnect or turn off mobile broadband
- The AT&T AllAccess app
- View your AT&T data usage
  - View or change your AT&T account info
  - Read account notifications from AT&T
- Share your Internet connection
- Mobile broadband settings
- How to use less data
- Replace the micro-SIM card
Care and cleaning
- Touchscreen care
- Cover care
- Battery care
- Safety and warranty
Help, Service, and Support
- Surface help
- Windows help
- AT&T help
- App help and troubleshooting
That’s it!

SkyDrive

With SkyDrive, you'll never be without the documents, photos, and videos that matter to you. Your

Microsoft account includes cloud storage that’s accessible from any of your devices—your computer,

tablet, and phone.

• To see what’s on your SkyDrive, go to Start and tap or click SkyDrive.

All of the files that you’ve saved on SkyDrive appear (you can also open files saved on Surface or your network).

Tap or click a folder name to see the contents. Tap or click a file to open it. Office files open in Office apps and

music files open in Xbox Music.

Swipe down from the top edge of the screen to see commands.

Included with your Surface 2 purchase: 200GB of free SkyDrive storage, for two years. To activate your free

SkyDrive storage, just use the code included in your Surface 2 packaging. Offer details.

To learn more about using SkyDrive, see SkyDrive on Surface or Getting started with SkyDrive on Windows.com.

Tips

• Pictures that you take with the Camera app are saved to SkyDrive by default. See the Camera topic for

more info about this.

• Need help with SkyDrive? From the SkyDrive app, open the Settings charm and then tap or click Help.

Get to your files from anywhere

When your files are on SkyDrive, you can get to them from any device. You can go to SkyDrive.com or one of the

SkyDrive mobile apps.