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Tired of drowning in a sea of data? Level Up Your Excel Game with Copilot
Microsoft's Copilot is here to rescue you. What can Copilot do for you in Excel? Data Magic: Spot Trends: Quickly find patterns in your data. Get Smart Insights: Uncover valuable information from your spreadsheets. Predict the Future: Forecast future trends based on past data. Automate the Boring Stuff: Formula Wizard: Create complex formulas with ease. Instant Formatting: Make your spreadsheets look slick. Pivot Table Pro: Create and customize pivotables in a snap. I highly recommend it! Level up your Excel skills today. With Copilot, you'll work smarter, not harder. I know I certainly do! Have you used Copilot in Excel? Share your experience in the comments!
Copilot Icon Missing in New Outlook
Hi - I believe this has been posted before but didn't see a resolution. I had the Copilot icon appear in new Outlook in the top right/taskbar a couple of weeks ago. Recently it disappeared. The Summary By Copilot for an email thread and Draft with Copilot are still available; this is for the overall Copilot functions for Outlook. Obviously I have the correct license setup as the icon was there before but is no longer there now. Is working/does show in Word, PPT and Excel. Any info would be appreciated.
Copilot teams - mobile issues
Hello I've published my copilot studio on Teams. Whenever I use the desktop computer, everything works fine. When I use the mobile application, if I am not authenticated on MS Teams on the desktop, when a generative node is called, the app simply does not respond, without returning any error. As soon as I access the chat on the desktop computer, all pending responses are returned and synchronized in the mobile app. If I am authenticated on MS Teams on the desktop, the mobile application also works fine. I also tested this: when I use the mobile application, if I have an active authentication on MS Teams in the mobile browser with the desktop site enabled, the mobile application also works fine. I have also tested the following, but always with the same result of the mobile application not responding to generative nodes: - I tried different Wi-Fi networks and mobile data - I reinstalled the app on my phone - I cleared the cache in the mobile app - I tested on both Android and iOS - I tested with different users Any idea why the mobile application doesn't work with generative nodes when I don't have an active authentication on a desktop version?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, PowerPoint, and other Office tools to make our lives easier. But when it comes to actually performing specific functions, Copilot falls flat. Here’s the problem: when you ask Copilot to alter a document, modify an Excel file, or adjust a PowerPoint presentation, it’s practically useless. Instead of performing the tasks as requested, it often leaves you hanging with vague suggestions or instructions. Users don't want to be told how to perform a task—they want it done. This is what an AI assistant should do: execute commands efficiently, not just offer advice. What makes this even more frustrating is that other AI tools, like ChatGPT, can handle these tasks effortlessly. When you ask ChatGPT to perform a specific function, it does so without hesitation. It’s able to understand the request and deliver exactly what’s needed. But Copilot? It struggles with the basics, and that’s unacceptable, especially from a company like Microsoft. It’s frankly embarrassing that Microsoft can’t get this right. The whole point of integrating AI into these tools was to streamline workflows and boost productivity. But if Copilot can’t even manage simple tasks like formatting a document or adjusting a spreadsheet, then what’s the point? Users don’t need another tool that tells them how to do something—they need one that does it for them. Microsoft, you’ve missed the mark with Copilot. It's not just a minor inconvenience; it's a serious flaw that undermines the value of your Office suite. When other AI tools can easily accomplish what Copilot can't, it's time to reevaluate. Users expect more, and frankly, they deserve more for their investment. What’s been your experience with Copilot? Is anyone else finding it as frustrating as I am? Let’s talk about it.
Copilot connection to Powerbi
Hi Everyone. Currently trying to make a connection to our PowerBi platform through Copilot Studios. So far i keep getting a connection failure. I have tried to adjust our security settings in Active Directory. I have tried adjusting the permission on the workspace and access to the datasheet. When i use the Json query to extract on the columns in the giving table i just get a connection error. even though the connection seems valid. Any suggestions on how to proceed?I want to turn off or hide the draft with copilot dingbat that follows my cursor around in MS Word.
I have seen a few articles on this website, and I know it's not possible but I'm going to ask anyway. For reference this is what I'm referring to: It's more I find the little thing following me around on my screen to be annoying and distracting, I've managed to hide or disable anything related to copilot on my system except this little dingbat. When a new document is open you get a little message that says "Select the icon or press Alt + i to draft with copilot" It would be nice if I could hide that as well, yes copilot is a *feature*, and I don't care about it. I also want to hide the paste with copilot and just used the local paste options that were built into previous versions of word. I suspect that there is a copilot dingbat that is stored somewhere on my system, possibly in a font, and as I have already made a few detrimental modifications to my operating system registry, I'm not wary of messing up my computer any more than it could be. The only saving grace I have at the moment is there is an issue with my account, so any accidental triggering of the feature causes it to crap out. (So long as I don't accidentally press the 'fix account" button) I know that if it was easy to turn off there would be a button for it, I know Microsoft probably wants us to use this feature because it means more data for them to collect, an I'm disappointed in the loss of user agency that's resulted from this rollout, and there's a spike in animosity towards AI in general.
Copilot in Word - how to compile a list of style decisions
Hello, I was hoping to use Copilot to create a style sheet for a document I am editing – i.e., a list of style decisions I make as I go, choices about spelling of certain words, punctuation, etc. So far I have tried two different approaches, neither of which has worked: First, I asked Copilot if I could tell it these style decisions as I went, so that it could compile them all into a list at the end. It very confidently said that it could do that. But once I started giving it things to be included in the style sheet, it would instead reply with paragraphs of text about the word I'd given it. It clearly thought I wanted it to write things for me. I reminded it a few times that I only needed it to compile the specific words I was giving it. A couple of times it seemed to understand - but invariably it would go back to spewing out long slabs of text. Reminding it what I was doing each time (e.g. "Add to style list: use numerals for numbers greater than 99", or whatever) didn't help. Next, I tried highlighting individual words and phrases to be included in the style sheet. Then I asked Copilot to compile a list of every word highlighted in the document. It gave me a long list of words, a couple of which were highlighted, most of which weren't, and it left out many other highlighted words. Can anyone suggest a method that might work for this task using Copilot's capabilities? I'm new to Copilot so may be coming at it the wrong way. It's an easy task to do myself, as I usually would - and I've now wasted way more time trying to prompt Copilot than it would have taken to do it myself. But I'm curious to know if there's a way to do it.
