Changing Surface Laptop TouchPad Settings
The touch pad on the Surface Laptop has multi touch capability, meaning gestures with either three or four fingers can be used to navigate Windows.
To change these, search for "trackpad" in the windows search bar. Three and four finger gestures can be changed in the highlighted sections:

For example in the three finger gesture section, the arrows represent what will happen when three fingers are swiped in that direction. The setting can be changed in the drop down highlighted in blue:

Instead of changing each swipe direction all at once, they can also be set individually for finer control. To change these, go to "Advanced gestures" in the main touch pad settings window: