How to Use Microsoft Copilot?

Microsoft Copilot is an AI assistant designed for individual and professional users and aims to boost productivity by reducing workload. Microsoft Copilot is useful for a wide range of tasks, from automating users' workloads to sparking their creativity. Using Microsoft Copilot, you can access the AI ​​conversation experience, use the latest Bing data, generate AI images, or complete coding tasks. If you're wondering how to use Microsoft Copilot, we've got you covered!

In this article, we will review Microsoft Copilot and tell you how you can use it.

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TL; DR

• Microsoft Copilot is an AI assistant designed to reduce the workload and boost the productivity of both individual and professional users.
• Microsoft Copilot uses GPT-4 and GPT-4T LLMs and DALL-E 3 AI image generator model to generate output.
• You can use Microsoft Copilot integrated into Windows 11.
• You can use Microsoft Copilot via Edge browser to summarize web pages.
• You can use Microsoft Copilot integrated with Microsoft 365 apps such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• If you are looking for a customizable AI assistant that offers more features than Microsoft Copilot and integrates with Microsoft Office Suite to handle your daily or professional tasks, TextCortex is the way to go.

What is Microsoft Copilot?

Microsoft Copilot is an AI assistant developed by Microsoft that can integrate with all 365 apps in addition to basic AI tools such as AI chatbot. Microsoft Copilot uses GPT-4, and GPT-4 Turbo models developed by OpenAI to generate textual output. OpenAI's GPT-4 model is one of the most advanced natural language models on the market and has high performance in text generation and coding tasks. Microsoft Copilot AI tool uses the DALL-E 3 image generator model developed by OpenAI to generate image output.

Microsoft Copilot Features

Microsoft Copilot is initially designed to give an AI chatbot experience using data from the Bing search engine. With Microsoft Copilot, you can generate text-based outputs such as stories, articles, and poems, or translate existing ones into another language. Microsoft has integrated Copilot with Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel to offer its users a more compact AI experience.

Microsoft Copilot Pricing

Microsoft Copilot comes with three different pricing plans; Standard, Copilot Pro, and Copilot for Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Copilot Standard pricing plan is free to use and offers basic features such as AI chatbot, image generation, document summarization, web access, and Copilot plugins.

Microsoft Copilot Pro plan offers everything included in the previous plan, plus faster responses during peak times, faster AI image generation, and copilot integration in select Microsoft 365 apps for $20/month.

Copilot for Microsoft 365 pricing plan is designed for enterprises and charges $30 per seat per month with a minimum 12-month purchase. Copilot for Microsoft 365 pricing plan offers full integrations, Enterprise-grade data protection, and customizations in addition to the features of all previous pricing plans.

How to Access Microsoft Copilot?

All you need to access Microsoft Copilot is a Microsoft Account. Afterwards, you can access Microsoft Copilot with the Edge browser and start using its features. Additionally, another method to access Microsoft Copilot is to install it from the Microsoft Store.

How to Use Microsoft Copilot?

If you want to use Microsoft Copilot but don't know where to start, we've got you covered. There are several different ways to access and use Microsoft Copilot. Let's discover together how to use Microsoft Copilot!

Microsoft Copilot in Windows 11

The most basic method of using an AI chatbot is to experience it through a browser unless you install a custom native AI chatbot. However, unlike traditional AI chatbots, an alternative way to use Microsoft Copilot is to utilize its integration with - wait for it - Windows! Microsoft Copilot has already added an integration to the taskbar so that Windows 11 users can use Copilot.

If you are a Windows 11 user, you can activate Microsoft Copilot by using the “Windows + C” shortcut or by clicking its icon on the taskbar. Microsoft Copilot Windows 11 integration offers its users the features of an AI chatbot using Bing search engine data, activating it by typing Windows commands, and adding plugins.

Microsoft Copilot in the Edge Browser

If you are not a Windows 11 user and want to use Microsoft Copilot, you can try the Edge browser. By clicking the “Copilot” icon in the upper right corner of Edge Browser or using “Ctrl+Shift+.” You can enable Microsoft Copilot in the Edge browser using its shortcut. Microsoft Copilot Edge browser integration offers plugins, AI chatbot experience and AI art generation offered by Windows 11 integration. However, you cannot use operating system commands such as “mute volume” using Microsoft Copilot Edge browser integration.

One of the cool features of Microsoft Copilot Edge browser integration is that you can interact with your web pages or browser via prompting. For example, you can run an app where you can view and interact with your tabs by entering the “Organize my tabs” prompt. Additionally, Microsoft Copilot Edge browser integration can summarize any web page you open or enable you to chat with web pages.

Microsoft Copilot 365 Integrations

Another way to use Microsoft Copilot is to use it with Microsoft Office 365 integrations. You can use Microsoft Copilot in both Office desktop and browser-based applications. The apps where you can use Microsoft Copilot are Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams, respectively. Microsoft Copilot offers different features in each app.

Using Copilot in Microsoft Excel

By using Microsoft Copilot, you can simplify your Excel tasks and create complex functions by prompting. You can also convert data into graphs or create data tables from graphs with Microsoft Copilot Excel integration.

Using Copilot in Microsoft Word

Microsoft Copilot offers Word integration to help users complete text-based tasks. Thanks to this integration, you can generate text from scratch, translate your existing texts, change their tone of voice, or fix their grammar. Copilot Word integration has similar functionality to TextCortex's Zeno Assistant feature.

Using Copilot in Microsoft PowerPoint

Since Microsoft Copilot is an AI assistant that can generate both text and images, you can create presentations using it. You can convert a document to a PowerPoint presentation via Microsoft Copilot, generate a presentation idea on any topic, or add new slides to your existing presentations.

Using Copilot in Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Copilot offers Microsoft Outlook integration to organize users' email tasks. Using this integration, you can summarize the emails in your mailbox, generate a reply to any email, and convert your sentences into email format.

A Better Alternative for Microsoft OfficeSuite: TextCortex

With its LLMs variety, text, code and image generation capabilities, customizations, web access, and seamless integrations, TextCortex is a better Microsoft Copilot alternative for both individual and enterprise users. TextCortex develops features that users may need in their daily and professional tasks and saves 24 hours a month for each employee. TextCortex offers integration with 30,000 websites and apps to automate any of your tasks.

As a sophisticated processing and generation engine, TextCortex combines the power of multiple LLMs, internet data-driven output generation, a powerful RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), knowledge bases integration, DALL-E 3 image generator to understand the necessary context of your work and generate concise, accurate responses with the knowledge of your internal data.

Also, our approach includes building user confidence via generating secure and safe output and securing your enterprise data. TextCortex has SOC 2 Type I and Type II, GDPR certificates to protect enterprise data. Also, let's take a look at the results from one of our case studies:

• TextCortex was implemented for Kemény Boehme Consultants as a solution to tackle these challenges and today employees report increased efficiency and productivity (saving 24 hours/month per employee on average).
• AICX, an ecosystem partner of TextCortex, was integral to the onboarding and helped achieve a 70% activation rate of the team within the first weeks.
• Employee confidence in using and working with AI increased by 60%.‍
• The implementation results in a 28x return on investment (ROI).