Get more info on how to use your Surface Pen Use Surface Book as a laptop And if you want a truly immersive creative experience, add Surface Dial. Use touch or Surface Pen to draw or take notes, just like on paper. With Surface Book in View Mode, fold the display down so you have a horizontal surface to write on. Sketch, write, and create naturally in Studio Mode The keyboard is now a stable stand for the display for hands-free watching. It’ll lock into place and you’ll see an Attached message on the screen. Flip the screen around, line up the tabs on the keyboard to the slots on the display, and press the display down. To put Surface Book into View Mode, first press and hold the Detach key on the keyboard to remove the display. Play Xbox games with an Xbox wireless controller (learn more about playing games on Surface). Present ideas to a few colleagues or classmates. View Mode is perfect for when you want to: Watch movies and share photos in View Mode Just be sure to protect the screen with a padded case or some other sort of protection if you’re not bringing the keyboard along. There’s a power charging port on the bottom center of the display. Tip: If you’re traveling and don’t need the keyboard, just bring the display and your power cord. Just press and hold the Detach key on the keyboard, remove the display, and you’re ready to go. Surface Book is a tablet that you can take anywhere. Now you can put Surface Book in any mode, depending on what you want to do.

Then pull the display off of the keyboard. Press and hold the Detach key until the light on the key turns green and you see the Ready to Detach message on the screen. Surface Book is a versatile laptop, a powerful tablet, and a portable studio that adapts to the ways you work and create. If you just got a new Surface Book, congrats! Here are a few tips to get you started.ĭetach the display for four different modes For more info, see Which Surface devices can be upgraded to Windows 11? Surface Book 2 tips

For Surface Book 2 models that have the 8th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-8350U or i7-8650U processor only, you can upgrade your Surface Book 2 from Windows 10 to Windows 11. Surface Book 2 comes with Windows 10 Pro edition.

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