Ed Bott - Windows 10 Support Secrets

101 CHAPTER 7 | Staying productive on mobile devices Figure 7-8: When you use a pen to write text in a OneNote page, your words are automatically converted to text in the background. That means searches like this one can succeed with no extra work on your part. Using tablet mode On tablets and hybrid devices that can play the part of tablets, the fundamental means of interaction are different from a conventional PC. Using Windows 10, you can switch the input mode to account for the lack of a keyboard and pointing device. This touch-friendly configuration is called tablet mode. On a hybrid device, detaching the keyboard prompts Windows 10 to ask if you want to switch into tablet mode, as shown in Figure 7-9. Figure 7-9: After you detach the keyboard from a hybrid device, Windows 10 asks, politely, if you want to switch to tablet mode. If you find these prompts unnecessary, click the down arrow to instruct Windows that you want it to remember your choice. If you ever used Windows 8, tablet mode will feel extremely familiar. All programs run in full screen— with no windows allowed. You can use your finger to grab the top of any program and snap it to the left or right side of the display. If you open a link to a webpage, as I’ve done in Figure 7-10, the page opens in a window alongside the current one.