Microsoft's Copilot: A Frustrating Flop in AI-Powered Productivity

Me again. I write novels, and at the end of each new chapter I make a short summary and add it to a separate Word document, to help me refer back to what I wrote maybe several months prior.

I decided to try using the Copilot version built into Word to make the summaries, and was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the responses. The copy button put the summary on my clipboard and I pasted it into my summary document. Great.

But all good things in Copilot come to an end, apparently. Now, although when the copy button is pressed a message assures me the response is copied, nothing happens when I try to paste it, and if I look at the clipboard it says 'no preview available'. I have to download the chapter (in parts, if it's long) into the free-standing version of Copilot, and then paste it into my summary document. What's more, the summaries produced by the freestanding Copilot aren't as good as those produced by the one in Word. I'm verging on returning to composing the summaries myself. I'd rather be writing my latest novel than wasting time trying to get Copilot to work.