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Terrible Surface Pro 8 Battery life - Nearly 1% drained per minute

I bought a Surface Pro 8 a month ago and since then it has had terrible battery life. I've updated it whenever a new update was available but it's still giving me major issues. I logged in at 7:50am this morning and by 9:24 it had gone from 90% battery…

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Do you want to switch to tablet mode?

Windows Update updated my SB today. There was one Windows security update, the Malicious Software Removal Tool, and a Flash update for IE. Today, I have started receiving unsolicited Notifications asking me if I want to switch to tablet mode? These…

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How to install Windows 32-bit version in my surface pro?

I have a surface. But it pre-installed windows 8 Pro 64-bit. I don't want to use 64-bit software, so I wanna install a new 32-bit Windows 8 on my surface Pro. But when I boot from my installing media, I find that surface can't get in to installing…

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Surface Laptop 3 - Rubber Feet Falling Off

Hello! I'm loving my Surface Laptop 3, however, to my dismay, the back left rubber foot (or bumper) fell off. I've tried putting it on several times, but it kept falling off. I'm looking to get it fixed, so I don't scratch my Surface or the surface it's…

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There are no handwriting options for this language - SP4/Win10

Hello, I have a Surface Pro 4 with windows 10 using Australia English. When I download language packs it comes up with "there are no handwriting options for your language" I have the location and date set to Aus but still nothing. I am able to…

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Surface Pro 4 HUGE battery drain whilst off

My surface pro 4 is currently losing around 20% charge overnight. This is a widely reported problem and I have tried all of the various suggested fixes - no improvement. MICROSOFT - WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO FIX THIS???

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Keyboard gets 'stuck' after 5 seconds while playing games...

And since a lot of games use AWSD for movement, this is a problem. Basically - for example - playing Minecraft, when running forward (w) if you hold the w key down for 5 seconds, it'll 'stick' - and you can let go of the keyboard, and you will continue…

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I would like to use a Surface Pro 3 pen with another tablet.

Hi everyone! I'm going to try out the Surface Pro 3 soon, but I think that N-trig pen is cool, especially the click the top to open One Note feature I saw when it was introduced. I've done a bit of research and found out the reason the Surface Pro 3…

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Surface Pro Miracast Connection Problem

I am essentially re-asking the same question, but in a different manner as it has been two weeks and the problem of the Surface Pro 2 not connecting to our new LG OLED, Miracast-compatible TV remains unresolved. They do attempt to negotiate a…

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Surface Pro 3 Power/Lock button not working properly after Windows Update

So I have the Surface Pro 3, which I love, however after the most recent Windows update when I press the power button once it brings up the "Slide to shutdown" screen. I read that Microsoft fixed an issue with the power button just before the…

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OneNote "Search Notebooks" field covers the title and won't move

In my OneNote the field box for "Search Notebooks" positioned itself over the title of the page and I can't move it. I tried various Display settings and also reset the cache. Anyone knows how to solve this ?

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OneDrive 'not enough cloud storage' despite paying for 2TB and have used 1% of it!!

Hi all, I recently changed my backup settings to something that I thought would work much simpler but OneDrive is not having any of it. This is my setup: I have the usual Documents, Pictures and Video located in a OneDrive folder on second M2 drive in my…

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I have a 7 sheet excel national d/base with the 4th sheet working out all the stats and therein lies the problem. Lots of links have been broken. Is there a person I can send it to?

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Copy Paste Formatting Keyboard Shortcut No Longer Working

To my team's great chagrin and frustration, Microsoft has reassigned the format copying and pasting shortcuts we used very regularly. This happened a month ago, but we all recently discussed how angry we were about losing this feature so I wanted to make…

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I can't sync or download a shared folder in OneDrive

This just randomly started happening a few days ago and I can't figure out why. I previously had a shared folder synced to my computer from OneDrive and then suddenly it disappeared from my file explorer. I looked at the shared folder to see if I have…

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my files are saving to d.docs.live.net, why is this and how to I get my files back on my computer? I have windows 11

Instead of my files saving to my computer some of them save to https://d.docs.live.net.53e22b9e14726e2e.

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Microsoft Onedrive: Unhide folders/files which were Hidden from Shared

Good Morning. A user in our office went onto OneDrive Online and accidentally clicked on the Hide from Shared button on one of the folders which was shared with him. It gave a message that read: "Remove Folder If you remove this folder, you'll…

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Word is slow to respond version 16.85 in unknown version of Mac OS

Split from this thread. Exactly the same problem here: Problem appears after update to Version 16.85 (24051214) Microsoft® Word for Mac Problem is linked to spellchecker: any use of it triggers this complete freeze. Note that spellchecker can very…

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Office365 Abruptly Updated and New "Update License" Option Appears- Unsure What to Do

when I logged on today, Office abruptly decided to automatically update itself which never happens; now when I open Word, there's a subtle new option called "Update License" I can still open, edit, save, and create documents to my heart's…

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How do I change backgrounds in Microsoft Planner?

I've tried changing the background in Planner, but I don't seem to have any access to that. I see "plan settings" and after I click that, it takes me to "general" where I have no options for background changes, just a white screen.…

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Terrible Surface Pro 8 Battery life - Nearly 1% drained per minute

Do you want to switch to tablet mode?

How to install Windows 32-bit version in my surface pro?

Surface Laptop 3 - Rubber Feet Falling Off

There are no handwriting options for this language - SP4/Win10

Surface Pro 4 HUGE battery drain whilst off

Keyboard gets 'stuck' after 5 seconds while playing games...

I would like to use a Surface Pro 3 pen with another tablet.

Surface Pro Miracast Connection Problem

Surface Pro 3 Power/Lock button not working properly after Windows Update

OneNote "Search Notebooks" field covers the title and won't move

OneDrive 'not enough cloud storage' despite paying for 2TB and have used 1% of it!!

I have a 7 sheet excel national d/base with the 4th sheet working out all the stats and therein lies the problem. Lots of links have been broken. Is there a person I can send it to?

Copy Paste Formatting Keyboard Shortcut No Longer Working

I can't sync or download a shared folder in OneDrive

my files are saving to d.docs.live.net, why is this and how to I get my files back on my computer? I have windows 11

Microsoft Onedrive: Unhide folders/files which were Hidden from Shared

Word is slow to respond version 16.85 in unknown version of Mac OS

Office365 Abruptly Updated and New "Update License" Option Appears- Unsure What to Do

How do I change backgrounds in Microsoft Planner?