Although we can hear many voices constantly warning about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence, increasing our distrust, there are many aspects of our lives that this new technology will improve. Here we will explain a good example: How to improve your writing with the new Copilot Coach in Microsoft Word.
This is a feature that will help not only students and people who need to write texts of different nature in their professional performance. In fact, any type of user can benefit from it. Because write correctly, efficiently and accurately It is a quality that can give us great advantages in many situations in our daily lives.
In order for the assistant to help us with all the functions that we are going to explain below, it is first necessary to click on the Copilot icon to activate it. This is located in the toolbar. At the moment, this button is only available in the versions of Microsoft Word that are integrated into Microsoft 365.
We have already seen in previous posts how Copilot can transform and significantly improve the productivity and efficiency of tools such as Outlook or Memo pad. Now it's Word's turn.
What is Copilot Coach for Microsoft Word?
The new Coach of Copilot in Microsoft Word is a feature that has been announced relatively recently. For that reason, we still do not know all its details. We do know that it is an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) assistance service for users of the Microsoft word processor. And that Its ultimate goal is to improve our writing skills.
But How does this feature help us make our texts better? Here are some of its resources and features that make this assistant a real help:
- Review of writing style. An important help to make our documents more professional or adapted to specific contexts. With these revisions, we will avoid the use of repetitive expressions. In addition, we will not fall into the error of using inappropriate language (too formal or too informal, depending on each case).
- Tone analysisThe Copilot Coach is so precise that it can even identify the tone of the text we have written. From there, it can recommend certain adjustments to make it friendly, more serious or even more persuasive, depending on our final intentions.
- Custom SuggestionsAs we write and the text takes shape, the assistant reads it, analyses what we write and suggests ideas to improve the text (suggestions that we can apply or reject at our own discretion). It will also alert us to the presence of possible spelling and grammatical errors.
As you can see, using this new Copilot Coach in Microsoft Word is the closest thing to having a personal assistant sitting next to us at the keyboard. An assistant who will guide us by the hand to correct our mistakes and improve our style. But, above all, to focus our efforts when writing so that they are more effective in achieving our goals.
Benefits of using the new Copilot assistant in Microsoft Word
Looking at all the ways in which Copilot's writing assistant interacts with the user, it's easy to understand that the benefits achieved are significant. Here's a brief summary of everything this coach offers us:
- Higher quality texts and much better oriented towards their objectives. With the consequent benefits that this implies for our academic or professional performance.
- Time saving considerable, since by using the coach we do not need to consult sources, dictionaries, etc.
- Continuous learning. With the help of the assistant, who acts as a tutor in a certain way, we ourselves will learn to avoid mistakes and improve our writing skills.
Expanding on this last point, it should be noted that, while we are using the coach, a series of explanations are continuously displayed in the Word side panel. There, the following are detailed: the reason for the recommendations and suggestions, to help us decide whether or not to take them into consideration.
The most advisable thing when handling this tool is to use it to subject the text (partially or totally) to a Full reviewThrough it, we can ensure that the document we have just written meets the minimum requirements of clarity, tone and style that we need.
See also: Save time and effort: Microsoft Word launches automatic summaries with AI.
In summary, it can be said that Copilot Coach is a laudable initiative by Microsoft to integrate AI functions more deeply into the different tools that make up its office suite. With this assistant, any user will benefit from a more enriching and efficient experience when writing your texts.