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Microsoft's Copilot: A Frustrating Flop in AI-Powered Productivity
Microsoft's Copilot was supposed to be the game-changer in productivity, but it's quickly proving to be a massive disappointment. The idea was simple: integrate AI directly into Word, Excel, PowerPoi...
I'm not an IT whiz kid - just an ordinary user of Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc., albeit with some technical background. I find it very frustrating that, as someone says above, Copilot won't do anything to my documents - it just gives me complicated instructions on how to do it myself. For example I asked it to change the font of all dates in my Word document from ordinary to bold: the reply told me how to do it, (it wasn't straightforward), and included a statement to the effect that Copilot wouldn't touch the document itself. Why not? It could save the original and also provide a version with the requested amendments. Surely if it can produce the instructions for how to do something, it can also apply those instructions?