Hi all,
Firstly I'd like to begin by saying that I am a big fan of the Surface, otherwise I wouldn't have parted with almost £500 to own one. That said, I am having several issues when using the touch screen functionality within desktop mode, which for the most part feels very fluid and far more accessible than the touch cover. I'm even writing reports in word using the touch screen.
Since taking ownership I've been keeping a log of noted issues and now I'm hoping you can step in and offer some tips or advice!
1 - When viewing images using the preview function within desktop mode (hold on screen for right click menu, then select ‘preview’), if you click on slideshow there is no physical way to then exit out of the slideshow. The only way around this that I’ve found is to go back to the Win8 tiles and open one of the office programmes, which then minimises the slideshow and allows you to close it.
2 - When browsing files within explorer, if you hold on screen for right click menu and then select ‘send to’ > ‘mail recipient’ it doesn’t recognise any mail client. Surely it should be sync’d to the supplied mail app.
3 - When in desktop mode is there any way of setting the touch screen keyboard to pop up each time a text field is selected.
4 - The text boxes on this forum don’t function correctly when accessing from my Surface, which is pretty lame considering this is possibly the best available resource for the Surface tablet. I click on the text box and my on screen keyboard appears, then immediately disappears. The only work around seems to be to click on another field, such as the 'Trackback' field and then click back on to the main text input box. Just to note, I lost this entire post earlier as having spotted a mistake I clicked my screen to go to a specific point in the text and as I hit the backspace key my keyboard was going in to hide and for whatever reason my surface went back to the previous page, losing all my progress on this thread post.
5 - Where is the auto screen brightness sensor? I find my screen fade seems fairly sporadic and am conscious that perhaps my hand placement is the cause. When using word I hold the tablet in portrait with the Windows button to my right (I hold the top edge of the tablet in my left hand and type with my right hand).
6 - Is there any way to select multiple files in explorer when they are not located immediately adjacent one another, i.e. a way to click on random files, which could then be copied or renamed etc.
Of all the above the forum issue remains the most annoying, almost to the point that I'm close to giving up on accessing the site via my Surface.
Regards,
Chrid
Firstly I'd like to begin by saying that I am a big fan of the Surface, otherwise I wouldn't have parted with almost £500 to own one. That said, I am having several issues when using the touch screen functionality within desktop mode, which for the most part feels very fluid and far more accessible than the touch cover. I'm even writing reports in word using the touch screen.
Since taking ownership I've been keeping a log of noted issues and now I'm hoping you can step in and offer some tips or advice!
1 - When viewing images using the preview function within desktop mode (hold on screen for right click menu, then select ‘preview’), if you click on slideshow there is no physical way to then exit out of the slideshow. The only way around this that I’ve found is to go back to the Win8 tiles and open one of the office programmes, which then minimises the slideshow and allows you to close it.
2 - When browsing files within explorer, if you hold on screen for right click menu and then select ‘send to’ > ‘mail recipient’ it doesn’t recognise any mail client. Surely it should be sync’d to the supplied mail app.
3 - When in desktop mode is there any way of setting the touch screen keyboard to pop up each time a text field is selected.
4 - The text boxes on this forum don’t function correctly when accessing from my Surface, which is pretty lame considering this is possibly the best available resource for the Surface tablet. I click on the text box and my on screen keyboard appears, then immediately disappears. The only work around seems to be to click on another field, such as the 'Trackback' field and then click back on to the main text input box. Just to note, I lost this entire post earlier as having spotted a mistake I clicked my screen to go to a specific point in the text and as I hit the backspace key my keyboard was going in to hide and for whatever reason my surface went back to the previous page, losing all my progress on this thread post.
5 - Where is the auto screen brightness sensor? I find my screen fade seems fairly sporadic and am conscious that perhaps my hand placement is the cause. When using word I hold the tablet in portrait with the Windows button to my right (I hold the top edge of the tablet in my left hand and type with my right hand).
6 - Is there any way to select multiple files in explorer when they are not located immediately adjacent one another, i.e. a way to click on random files, which could then be copied or renamed etc.
Of all the above the forum issue remains the most annoying, almost to the point that I'm close to giving up on accessing the site via my Surface.
Regards,
Chrid
