Microsoft Word Copilot: Revolutionizing Document Creation with AI

Microsoft Word Now Has Better Copilot Rewriting Tools

SpaceX's Ultra-Portable Starlink Mini Is Now Available to Everyone Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant has been available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for months now, but it's still not all that useful in many situtations. Microsoft is trying to fix that in Word with updated rewriting tools. Microsoft is rolling out an update to its Copilot integration in Word that improves its ability to rewrite and translate text. There's a new "Draft on Selection" feature that allows you to refine, expand, or transform specific sections of text within a document. With this update, you can simply select the text you want to modify and prompt Copilot to make the desired changes. This includes paraphrasing, adding details or statistics, changing formats (like turning a list into paragraphs), updating content for different audiences (like adjusting for US readers), and even reorganizing information by adding headings and bullet points. You could already select parts of your document to rewrite with Copilot, but the options were limited to a handful of settings, such as rewriting a section in a more formal tone. With this change, you can now type exactly what you want to happen to the text, and Copilot will do its best to accommodate. For example, you can ask Copilot to "update this selection to reflect a US audience" or "take the text in this selected table and turn it into sections of content with section headers." The AI assistant will then automatically make the changes, saving users time and effort. This is just the first iteration of Draft on Selection, and Microsoft plans to add more enhancements in the coming months. These include a quicker way to replace the original text with the updated version and the ability to reference content from other files. Microsoft is also exploring options to preserve formatting and allow Copilot to apply formatting to new content. As Copilot continues to evolve, these new features will be integrated into Draft on Selection as well. As for the feature itself, it reminds us a bit of the co-writing feature that's built into Grammarly, which allows you to select sections of text you're writing and tweak them with different prompts using AI. Microsoft is rolling out the new functionality to Word on Windows, Mac, and the web. However, you need a Copilot Pro subscription to access it, in addition to your Microsoft 365 subscription. Source: Microsoft 365 Blog, Microsoft 365 Roadmap

Microsoft makes Copilot in Word even more powerful with new text drafting capabilities

Key Takeaways Copilot in Word gains new "Draft on Selection" feature for faster text refinement and content augmentation. Users can prompt Copilot to generate text from bullet points, cater to different audiences, and format content efficiently. Microsoft plans for future updates to include easier content replacement and referencing additional content in other files. Copilot for Microsoft 365 is already a fairly powerful technology that keeps getting new features, which is understandable, seeing that Microsoft is going all-in on artificial intelligence (AI). Now, the Redmond tech firm has unveiled new capabilities in the Copilot integration with Word, enabling users to write even better text in a faster way. What superpowers is Copilot in Word gaining? In a blog post, Microsoft announced that it will now allow users to draft text via Copilot in Word by simply selecting a specific section of text, list, or table, rather than the entire text. The tech giant believes that this will enable customers to refine their existing selection, elaborate on further details, and augment their content with supporting facts and figures. This particular feature is called Draft on Selection and can be accessed by clicking the Make changes option that appears when you select a portion of your content. Users can leverage this capability to prompt Copilot to generate a paragraph of text from a set of bullet points, while providing additional context. Additionally, if your content is geared towards different audiences, you can ask Copilot to cater to them through the same text accordingly. For example, rather than tediously navigating through your text to change currencies from the UK to the U.S., or using a generic text replacement utility, you can simply prompt Copilot to do the same rather efficiently. Finally, Copilot will be able to format text as tables, paragraphs, section headers, and more, enabling customers to streamline their workflows, with Copilot doing the heavy lifting when it comes to content organization. Draft on Selection is rolling out to customers already, but Microsoft has emphasized that this is only the first iteration. Future updates will include easier ways to replace your existing content with that generated by Copilot, along with the ability to refer to additional content present in other files.