Hi all,
I'm just wondering if there are benefits or good use cases for using copilot on Windows. I just tried asking it how to remap keys in Windows, and it gave me a solution. So it might work for the user I was trying to help. Up until a few minutes ago, I wasn't all that impressed when you compare it to ChatGPT. I know you can summarise webpages, open apps but not close them it seems! What's the point of opening an app and not being able to close it! I've previously asked it some fairly technical questions and haven't been impressed with its answers. It's taken me to webpages that don't provide me an answer. It's taken me to pages about the subject, but the page hasn't given me a specific answer related to my question. I've showed it a screenshot with a captcha, and it told me it couldn't give me the solution due to security constraints. In fact, I think I've given it several screenshots and it came back with something about not being able to read it or something due to constraints. I know it can't click on buttons for me on webpages or fill in inaccessible forms in Word or PDF. So what can it do for me apart from giving me possibly correct solutions to computer problems? Granted that's a good use case. Unless I'm missing a trick, what else can it do for me that's really of any use?
By Tara, 6 April, 2024
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Not much.
Honestly it can't do much.
People, or at least microsoft called it the next big thing but it really isn't.
I read an article that said something like, microsoft says that if you don't have a CoPilot button then your computer isn't an AI computer, I think that's so funny, all that button will do is launch the app, that's it.
Oh and good luck with it actually being accessible, sometimes it will let you type in the text field, other times, it just won't.
It might, might, improve in windows 12 but I doubt it.
Creating PowerPoint presentations from Word documents
See the subject line. Obviously this may not be of use to you. I haven't tried Copilot yet, but I'll definitely try it when I need to make a PowerPoint presentation in a few weeks.
the app is good
I use the IPhone app.
and it is very good
PowerPoint
Converting Word documents into PowerPoint is a start, but you can do that anyway, you can just save the document as a Word document as far as I remember, do correct me if I'm wrong, or convert it using an online converter. What I'm thinking of is how it deals with pictures in PowerPoint presentations. If your Word document has pictures, and it converts it to PowerPoint, will the pictures be aligned correctly with the textt? If so, that really could be a game-changer. By default, if you create a PowerPoint presentation within PowerPoint and add a picture, the picture overlaps the text, you can use the arrow keys to move it to a better position where it aligns properly with the text. From what little I've seen, this seems to be trial and error. Something like Copilot could surely do this effortlessly if it had the capacity. TJT, please let us know how it works and how it deals with pictures if you have the time or inclenation of course.
M365 copilot uses with screen reader
In PowerPoint, all that M365 copilot subscription (enterprise or personal subscription) can do that would be useful to me and many at work is to arrange slides I've already created myself, logically. So copilot would rearrange re-sort slides to have a logical flow. I'm curious to test if based on my own slides created without copilot, if copilot will automatically add a agenda/outline slide in the beginning accurately.
I’d like M365 copilot to tell me all the slide numbers and corresponding slide titles containing any alphanumeric string. This does not exist in PowerPoint. It only searches the slide in focus for the text string.
I see lots of use of M365 copilot in Excel -> summarize data, tell me key trends from the data or plots, deeper dive data analysis.
In Word I'd copilot to automatically revert characters typed in upper case or lower case, mistakenly, to the correct case. Sometimes I accidently press caps lock and keep on typing and it's a pain to detect and correct manually.
In outlook, I'd like copilot to summarize all key points in a logically well assembled manner, all the points raised in a email thread with the same subject line. this would be huge
In teams/ new Teams, I do not know what copilot could do however any thing would be better that without copilot, given how busy/ clunky and inconsistent New or even classic Teams is to use with screen reader such as JAWS.
Copilot and local support
Here’s an example I encountered recently. I wanted to locate the startup folder in Windows 11. I used the search function and clicked on Copilot, expecting it to direct me to the Copilot text field in Windows. However, it instead opened Copilot in Microsoft Edge. When I asked it to navigate me to the startup folder, it told me where the folder is located. What I really want from Microsoft is to prioritize adding local support for Copilot. They should enhance its ability to interact with the OS like toggling settings or opening specific folders—before expanding its capabilities to browse webpages. After all, users can already use Bing, ChatGPT, or other methods to do that.
Imagine being able to turn settings on and off, open a specific folder, rename multiple items at once, or adjust multiple settings simultaneously. These are just some of the features I can think of right now.