CoPilot in Office – Making Some Use of AI

It seems everyone is using AI to help with their work – primarily coding but apparently also other things. Given that I generate a lot more Powerpoint slides than lines of code today, it has been a bit challenging to find any application of LLMs that might actually be helpful. However, the CoPilot function that Microsoft has added to Office might be promising. Here is my recent experience using the tools.

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Was this a UTF-8 WTF?

Today I observed something very odd in Powerpoint. I was pasting in some text from the Simics command-line interface into a text box in Powerpoint to show the output of some commands. Commands whose output relied on box-drawing characters to produce nice tables. But for some reason… it did not work in Powerpoint. Weird.

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