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Re: Using Copilot with MS-Word - It's keeping the original beneath the new draft text, how can I keep only the revised draft?
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Leo Bado
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýI believe that¡¯s the secret, drafting is different from rewriting. This is a highly important distinction drawing on my own experience, and we should get acquainted with the best way to approach to what we want and what Copilot can do. A very good example of drafting is instructing Copilot with several concepts and how they may relate to one another in a specific context, e.g., ¡°Drawing on concepts such as interactional learning, situational learning, authentic learning, and information theory, draft a few paragraphs detailing what these concepts mean, how they relate to one another, and what could be efficient applicable real life scenarios to unleash their potential all in the context of developing technological competence for screen reader users.¡± ? On the other hand, rewriting would be just rephrasing or rewording a paragraph or any other portion of text while keeping the same ideas. So, let¡¯s say that drafting is building semantic relationships while rewriting is just rearranging syntactically the code, but keeping the main ideas. ? Cheers, Leo Bado. ? "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master." Pravin Lal. ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Konnie Ellis via groups.io
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2025 10:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [M365-Accessibility] Using Copilot with MS-Word - It's keeping the original beneath the new draft text, how can I keep only the revised draft? ? How do I select to do a rewrite, so I can have a replace button? ? ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Goldfield via groups.io ? Konnie, I do see what you mean. When I select the text, press alt+I and choose to enter a prompt, the drafted text is written below my original text and there is no button to replace it. If I select to have Copilot do a rewrite, there is a Replace button. I¡¯m not sure why the interface is inconsistent but I¡¯ll admit I¡¯m very new to using Copilot in Word and so there may be reasons for it that aren¡¯t obvious to me but which may be perfectly valid. ? David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist ? ? Director of Marketing, Blazie Technologies ? Am Yisrael Chai The Nation of Israel Lives! ? Subscribe to the Tech-VI announcement list to receive blindness technology news, events and information. Email: [email protected] ? ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Konnie Ellis via groups.io ? I wasn¡¯t selecting any text. Is that a necessary part of the procedure? If so, how much text can be selected? I guess I will go back to the drawingboard and do some experimenting. Thanks for the tip. I¡¯m going to try to select the entire document, because it consists of dates, and each date is followed by other information. I would like all of the dates to be written in a different format than they are currently. So that¡¯s the goal I¡¯m going to be testing. Konnie ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Goldfield via groups.io ? Hi, Konnie. After I select the text and tell Copilot to rewrite it via the alt+I menu, press tab and you¡¯ll find a ¡°Replace¡± button. If you¡¯re interacting with Copilot using another method, please share the steps you¡¯re taking? ? David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist ? ? Director of Marketing, Blazie Technologies ? Am Yisrael Chai The Nation of Israel Lives! ? Subscribe to the Tech-VI announcement list to receive blindness technology news, events and information. Email: [email protected] ? ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Konnie Ellis via groups.io ? When I type my prompt into copilot and generate a draft with my changes, it asks if I would like to keep it or not. When I tell it to keep the draft, the original document is written underneath the generated draft. Obviously, I only want the new draft. I called Microsoft through Be My Eyes, and the person helping me was unable to resolve the issue. Any tips appreciated. ? Word 365, Windows 11, NVDA Screen Reader ? Konnie |