I have to give the Copilot team credit. They are adding useful features. I just wish they were more reliable.
Now you have the option to open what you are doing in Pages which shows it like a Word document. It is a beautiful presentation. Then in Pages you can save it to Word. That is incredibly helpful as well. The problem is that it doesn’t interpret the CSS correctly and you get a word document with a mix of the content and CSS. I just deleted the content, copied the content with the icon at the bottom and pasted it in a word file. Slightly faster than manually opening up a word file.
We are getting there. I am sure they will quickly fix this. I don’t understand why they don’t just offer direct saving to Word. That is what the majority of consumers will want. Still I understand. They want people to buy word, and by doing a direct word save it would bypass the need to buy Word.
Very slightly, Copilot seems to be getting better. It is tracking the logic of the request better and yesterday it surprised me when it seemed to be on task. I will take any win I can get with AI. The more you use it, the more you see it needs careful supervision. Like the post I made yesterday giving Managers guidance on AI, you need to consider it a beginner of understanding. Often a drunk, hallucinating liar. But when its not that, it can be very helpful.
For example, it has helped me find software that otherwise I wouldn’t have had the language and understanding to find. Copilot Researcher can take 30 minutes to answer a question, but generally the answer is useful even if it does have some questionable parts. You just have to verify everything, and not trust what seems or sounds authoritative.