#Surface pro 3 button shortcuts how to#
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#Surface pro 3 button shortcuts Bluetooth#

If you decide to use our new tips, let us know how you're enjoying your Slim Pen in the comments below. We hope that these tips and tricks help you get more out of your new Surface Slim Pen 2. Or, you can tweak things so that you can open a specific program or app. Under each of these menus, you can choose one of the pre-set options like Whiteboard or Screen Snip, or the Pen Menu and OneNote. There will be options for what single-click, double-click, press and hold can do. From there, you can click Choose with your shortcut button does.

#Surface pro 3 button shortcuts Bluetooth#

Open the Settings app, choose Bluetooth & devices, then choose Pen & Windows Ink. Just like with the pressure sensitivity, you can tweak the buttons on your pen to fit your own needs. The last tip on our list involves the Slim Pen 2 button functions. The settings you choose will be system and app-wide and will remain in effect after you restart your Surface. You can then draw to test the pen pressure, and drag the slider around to change how light or heavy the pressure sensitivity is. Just open the Surface App, and then click the bottom area to summon the Slim Pen 2 settings. That's a lot of pressure to deal with, so you feel like the pen is too sensitive, though, you can tweak things down a bit. Surface Slim Pen 2 has a total of 4,096 pressure levels. Change your pen pressure sensitivity in the Surface app You can then add two more pinned apps to make it easier to jump into the inking action. Simply click the settings cog, and then the Edit pen menu. You can switch these apps to your own liking if you please. In the case of the Slim Pen 2, once Windows detects a Slim Pen 2 is nearby and in your hands after being detached, you'll see a pop-up menu above the taskbar with shortcuts to some suggested apps. Change your Windows Ink shortcutsĪ signature feature of Windows 11 is the new inking menu that pops up whenever you pick up or connect a Surface Pen. If you lost the pen inside your home, or at the office, you might be a bit out of luck. Of course, it's not always accurate since it's pulling data from Wi-Fi networks, and just showing you a general map. This pulls the location data from your Surface and gives you a map of where Windows thinks your pen might be. Since a Surface Pen is usually tied to a Surface, you can locate it by using the Find my Pen Under Privacy & Security followed by Find by Device. This not only applies to the Slim Pen 2, but any other Surface Pen you might own. The second tip on our list involves finding lost Surface Pens. When you do this, you'll be able to feel stronger friction as you drag the pen across the screen for your inking. However, if you go to Bluetooth & devices in Windows 11's settings menu, followed by Pen & Windows Ink, you can change the tactile intensity so that it's all the way up. By default, the settings for these signals are set to medium-low. Officially Microsoft calls this feature of the Slim Pen 2 'tactile signals.' This is thanks to a haptic motor built into the bottom half of the pen, near the tip which provides slight vibrations as you ink on the screen. Splitting screens in tablet mode is slightly different, and here is how you can do it.That said, let's jump into our first tip which relates the haptic feedback. That is four apps running at the same time, split into four perfectly equal windows. You can repeat step 1 from the previous section four times until you fill all four quadrants. The application will fit in one quadrant of the screen.

#Surface pro 3 button shortcuts how to#

Here is how to split the screen even further.ĭrag an application with your finger, pen, or mouse cursor from the title bar to the top-right corner of the screen. You can split it into quadrants, or maybe have two apps on the left side, and one app on the right side of the screen. You can split the screen more than twice using a Surface Pro.

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Split the Screen Multiple Times on Surface Pro Click or tap on one of the applications and it will fill the right half of the screen. From that view, you will see the other applications open at the time.

On the other side of the screen, you will see the task view.

Let your finger, mouse, or pen go and the application you were holding will fill the left half of the screen.

Drag from the Title Bar all the way to the left edge of your screen.

You can use your mouse, finger, or pen to grab the center top bar of one application, also called the Title Bar.

It doesn’t matter which apps or programs you choose.

On Surface Pro, open multiple applications or tabs.

Follow these steps for maximum multitasking efficiency:

Here is a little tutorial on splitting the screen in two on a Surface Pro which can make your life a little bit easier.