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I just bought Surface Book and have the strange problem. When I detach keyboard and use it in tablet mode and try to print something in text field, virtual keyboard appears only in some applications. For example it works in Edge/Bing and Skype, but doesn't work in Chrome/Google and many other applications.

Of course I can use accessibility keyboard option, but it's just workaround.

Is it some known issue or it can be fixed (maybe some hidden settings)?

UPDATE: Virtual keyboard works only for Microsoft's products, in all other applications it doesn't show up.

Update2: It works for any tablet Apps, but for desktop applications it depends, for example:

  1. Edge - yes
  2. Chrome - no
  3. Google Hangout - no
  4. Notepad++ - no
  5. Visual Studio - sometimes yes, sometimes not
  6. Excel - yes
  7. Word - no
  8. Skype - yes

Update3: After many updates it looks like it's working now.

Alexan
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  1. Right click/bring up the context menu of the taskbar
  2. Select Show touch keyboard button

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  1. Then you should see a keyboard icon and if you press it there pop-up a keyboard enter image description here
Stackcraft_noob
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  1. Open Settings! (Windwos + I)
  2. Go to Devices -> Typing
  3. Scroll down and toggle on: Automatically show the touch keyboard in windowed apps when there's no keyboard attached to your device: enter image description here
Stackcraft_noob
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