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How to leverage non-PDF documents
My apologies RobertSchneider1234 I double-checked your document and see now that you were using the Enterprise.. I apparently did not have enough coffee this morning... I also think I found out where the issue lies. I was finally able to get the sidebar to answer within the context of a OneDrive PDF but I had to do the following:
1) Click on the (...) on the document > choose to Open Location
2) Click on the (...) on the document > choose Open > Open in Browser
Then I was able to ask it questions about the document. Before, for some reason it would only see the OneDrive directory page and answer questions about that page.
What is most important is that I can now open up PDFs from my OneDrive using Windows Explorer by using Open With > Microsoft Edge. So I think your solution of installing the Microsoft 365 extension is the missing piece.
Thank you for your help and my apologies again.
Please see my post on how to accomplish this via the Microsoft 365 extension. I have noticed that unless the user has this file downloaded to their specific OneDrive it wont work, however, it does work when the user has it in their specific OneDrive account.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/bing-chat-enterprise/bing-chat-enterprise-presentation-feel-free-to-copy/td-p/3978647I wanted to share this with you as it just came to my attention that the M365 Browser Extension will be EOL as of Jan 2024: https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/end-of-support-for-the-microsoft-365-browser-extension-dc1024b4-92be-46eb-81a7-aea85368baa0
That being said, I have done some additional testing more recently and I'm now thinking some fixes may have been put in place with Copilot (formerly BCE) because I no longer need the extension installed in order to view PDFs stored in OneDrive and SharePoint locations.
- This does not seem to work. When I open up a PDF from my own OneDrive (after installing the M365 extension) I get a description of the OneDrive web page when I ask it to Generate a Page summary.
- I get this behavior also. Try ensuring no other tabs are open in your Edge browser and try refreshing your chat after you have the PDF open. This resolved that behavior for me for PDF's only.
