Pressing the copilot button to instantly bring up a text box where you can interact with an LLM is amazing UI/UX for productivity. LLMs are by far the best way to retrieve information(that doesnt need to be correct).
If this had been released with Agentic features that allow it to search the web, use toolscripts like fetching time/date and stuff from the OS, use recall, properly integrate with the microsoft app suite. It would be game changing.
We already have proof that this is a popular feature for users since its been integrated in every mobile phone for the past 10 years.
I think that might be a bug. I tested it now by opening a spreadsheet pressing the copilot button and asking something about the sheet and it returned the answer correctly and didnt ask for it to be uploaded.
tell it to do something to the spreadsheet, it won’t. regardless, we’ve already cancelled the sub to copilot. it’s a waste of time and money, and costs are going up while the use cases are just… terrible since you still need to review everything to speed out because it can’t be trusted.
heck, even Microsoft is basically saying don’t use it right in their terms…
don’t rely on it, it’s a risk, not intended for real work. it’s a toy…and a useless one at that.
I agree for excel, I think copilot in spreadsheets is using the wrong tool for the job. Its just a bad use of the tech. I also think the price for an enterprise sub is way to expensive for what you get.