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- Leila Gharani.
| Feature | Benefit |
|---|---|
| Summarise | Quick overview |
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0:00 Now, Copilot can summarize them, compare them, and can even answer questions about them, like "What?!" Yeah, you got to see this! Over here, I have my OneDrive open. This is my OneDrive for Business. Let's navigate to this folder. Now, the first thing I want to show you is summarizing files. So here, I have an Excel file, and I want to quickly know what it's about without opening it. Now, obviously, this only works for files that you have access to, so thankfully, I have access to this confidential information.
0:23 When I hover to the side, we see the Copilot icon. When I click it, I get to show the current actions for it. I can summarize the file, create an FAQ, or ask a question. I'm going to go and summarize this. Now, Copilot is going to go through the file, and it's going to summarize it for us. So here, we have, "The Los_Pollos_confidential file contains detailed HR data for employees at Los Pollos. It includes information such as employee IDs, names, roles, hire dates." So, it's reading our column headers.
0:53 Then, there are some key points from the document: the owner has the highest salary. We have some more information here as well. Now, that's a good quick overview and summary of this file. So, this works for Excel files, Word, PowerPoint, and also PDF files. Now, let's do something really cool—let's summarize BMW's latest quarterly statement. So, I downloaded this from their website. Let's just open it up to see what we get. We have nice cars here. When I scroll down, we have tables—lots of tables.
1:51 Then, down here, we have details about their performance. Let's just close this off, and let's get Copilot to summarize this for us. I'm going to go to the side here, click on the Copilot icon, and summarize this. Let's see what we get. Okay, so it's happy to summarize the document for us. That's great! This is the quarterly statement for BMW Group as of 30th of September 2024. We have the key highlights: Financial Performance. BMW Group's profit before tax for the third quarter was this much.
2:19 Notice we also get these bookmarks here. If I click on this, I'm going to be taken to the exact page in the report that has this information, right? So, I can easily double-check this. We have the different segments here,
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