(Microsoft 365) Microsoft 365 Office applications are a complete productivity suite, whether for work, education or personal use, and generative artificial intelligence technology makes them more powerful, just as Microsoft announced the integration of smart assistants (Copilot) in March last year in the Applications folder desktop. (Microsoft 365) Boost creativity and productivity by lightening the burden of daily routine tasks with Microsoft Office.
Microsoft integrates the smart assistant (Copilot) into the package (Microsoft 365) in two ways: First, you'll find it in the company's most popular office applications like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook. Teams and other apps help you be more creative, collaborative, and productive.
Two: You'll find it in (Business Chat), an AI-powered business chat service that will be part of the Microsoft 365 suite of apps—Calendar, Mail, Chat, Docs, and Meetings—you do things you do that weren't possible before because you can give it natural language prompts like :
Today we go through everything you need to know about Microsoft's new Copilot smart assistant in the Office suite of applications, and how will it change the way we work?
First of all, what is an intelligent copilot assistant?
The new Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps is a generative AI-based chatbot not unlike the one you're already used to in Bing and the ChatGPT bot.
Copilot is based on a large language model (GPT-4) and appears in the app's sidebar - similar to the Bing chat shortcut available in the Microsoft Edge browser - where you can use it to use natural language, ask a request to perform various tasks, and can also appear as a popup in Center documents when highlighting passages to suggest what to type or correct grammatical errors with a single click.
second; How do you use Copilot in Microsoft applications?
As mentioned earlier, you can find Copilot in popular Microsoft Office applications to help you write or summarize content, analyze data, or answer questions. To use it, all you have to do is type in the request you want, and Copilot will automatically create a document or respond to your request based on your natural language instructions. Here are some examples of how it works in Microsoft Office applications, as Microsoft explains:
1- Word:
You can use Copilot in Microsoft Word to create draft topics, edit new documents, add existing documents, summarize text, rewrite specific parts of a document, or rewrite an entire document to make it more concise. Appropriate writing style (tone).
2- Excel:
Users no longer need to master complex formulas in Excel for each column and description to get clear and accurate statistics, they can let the co-pilot write complex formulas and equations and also allow them to analyze data and create charts.
Additionally, with it, you can identify trends, gain meaningful insights, or get guidance for different outcomes. An example of a command and prompt that could be tested is: "Predict the effects of changes in the equation and create a graph to help you visualize this.
3- PowerPoint:
In PowerPoint, you can let the wizard create a presentation on a topic from text or a Word document, with the option to include graphics and more Excel files.
Microsoft also says you can summarize long presentations; If you think your presentation is too long, you can request that your 10-slide presentation be cut down to a 5-slide presentation. Voice commands can also be used to change layouts and precisely rearrange text and graphics.
4- Outlook:
Not only can Copilot respond to regular emails quickly, it can also help you organize your inbox, summarize long emails and suggest responses, and match email writing style to your email subject line so you can get things done faster and easier. .
5- Teams:
You can ask the co-pilot to close the meeting and he will give you a list of the major decisions made and the tasks assigned to each team member. According to Microsoft, users (Copilot) can also request that a meeting's strengths and weaknesses be clarified, so that the next meeting's conversation is more productive since unnecessary topics are not discussed.
When can Microsoft applications use Copilot?
Currently, the smart assistant (Copilot) is available in user- and company-specific applications (Microsoft 365), as it is currently in the testing and development phase of Office applications, of which 8 are in the list (Fortune 500) that Microsoft has now disclosed.
She also said that she will introduce them to more customers in the coming months and will share more pricing details later.