User Guide

Use Surface Pen in Office apps

You can use your Surface Pen to draw and write or highlight text in Office apps. To learn more about using the

pen in Office apps (called inking), see Use a pen to draw, write, or highlight text on a Windows tablet on

Office.com.

OneNote

Keep all your notes, clippings, sketches, photos, files, and more in one place that you can access

everywhere. OneNote syncs to your OneDrive, so you can view, update, and organize it all from

anywhere. In OneNote, everything is saved automatically.

Click the top button on Surface Pen and start writing a Quick Note. You don’t even need to unlock your Surface

first. Click again to write another note, or press the power button on your Surface to put Surface back to sleep.

While you’re signed in to Surface, click the top button on Surface Pen to open your latest notes. Add a Quick

Note, write in any of your OneNote notebooks, or review and organize the notes you wrote while Surface was

locked.

Write once, read everywhere

OneNote isn’t just for Surface. You can install and use it for free on PCs, Macs, iPads, and smartphones like

Windows Phone, iPhones, and Android. OneNote keeps everything synchronized. See OneNote.com for more

details.

For even more OneNote features, install or activate OneNote (desktop) app on your Surface. You can do even

more things with desktop app, like record audio, create custom tags, work on notebooks in a group, and more.

Once you’ve used these features in the desktop app, your recordings, tags, and collaborations are saved in your

synced notebooks, too. Check out the OneNote 2013 training videos at Office.com to learn more about using

OneNote (desktop). Check it out at Try Office 365 Home on Office.com.

Find your most recent notes or search for them later when you need them

Click the top button on Surface Pen while Surface is unlocked to see your most recent notes.

Use the Search charm to find text in any of your notes. Swipe in from the right edge of the screen and tap or click

Search. Then tap or click the arrow above the search box, select OneNote, and enter the text you want to

find.