Microsoft has improved its artificial intelligence tool (AI) Copilot with the objective, once again, Offer facilities to users and facilitate tedious tasks, as the reading of writings of thousands of pages. Students and analysts, this is your opportunity to stop wasting time.
In recent months, technological and developers of this type of solutions have not stopped announcing News related to AIwhich is capable of creating images and videos from text, admits voice commands, automates tedious tasks and even shows complex reasoning skills comparable to a doctoral level.
While all their skills are useful in any context, there is one that will facilitate the task of those students, workers or reading lovers who do not find the time necessary to focus on a too long document.
Microsoft has been perfecting a tool focused precisely on that, in summarizing writings of several pages in just a few seconds thanks to Copilot. This capacity, however, was already available in Microsoft Word, although with certain limitations, since only only It was possible to summarize a file of about 300 pages.
Now, two product managers of the Word team, Tanja Petrovic and Stéphane Visser, have advanced in the Microsoft 365 insiders community blog that the company has managed to execute a «significant increase» in the size of the documents that its artificial intelligence is able to summarize.
More specifically, it has multiplied its previous capacity by 10, so it promises Offer detailed summaries of up to 3,000 pages.
In this sense, those responsible have indicated that also They have rethink the procedure of this tool.
Thus, although they are aware that the standard summary of key points at the beginning is ideal for most users, they recognize that some documents require a summary with more details so that these people can better know the context, collect important information or communicate with the members of their equipment.
Thus, they have incorporated the possibility of Easily alternate between summary lengths, that are located at the top of the document, so that those who face the task of reading very extensive documents can ensure that the main points are represented in the summary.
Three ways to summarize a document
If you have not yet tried this valuable tool and you have to know the most important points of a thousands of pages, therefore, it is possible to resort to a different methodology to vertical reading, with which several details or fundamental aspects of a reading can be lost. The ideal in this case is to take advantage of Copilot.
Once the existing document in Microsoft Word is opened (either the office applied installed on the equipment or its web version), the start option, choose co -pilot and write «Summarize this document» In the chat box.
Next, the summary generated by this AI tool must be reviewed. If the result is satisfactory, it can be used and, otherwise, It is possible to generate a new text based on the chosen file.
Microsoft has also said that users who want to alternate between summary lengths can do so from the drop -down menu, located below the summary, selecting the option Brief, which offers a short paragraph. If what is sought is to expand the information, it is possible to click on Standard, which provides a list of the key points of that summary document.
Finally, if you seek to know until the last data of a document too long to waste time in your reading, it is necessary to choose the option Detailedthanks to which Copilot offers a long summary. This button is precisely the one that works best with documents that exceed 300 pages, as the company has advanced.
The drop -down menu function at the summary level, together with compatibility with long documents in the detailed option, is now available on the Word web version.
In addition, it is reaching users of the desktop application running (With compilation 2503, through compilation 18623,20042 or posterior) and Mac (version 16.96, by compilation 25031738 or posterior).
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