Discover how Microsoft OneDrive streamlines file interactions, allowing users to effortlessly summarize, question, and compare documents directly within the application. Explore practical features that enhance productivity and simplify your workflow across various formats.
Key Insights
- Utilize the integrated Copilot feature within OneDrive to quickly summarize or ask questions about various file types, including Word documents, PDFs, and PowerPoint presentations.
- Compare different file versions directly in OneDrive, even across formats such as Word to PDF, enabling users to identify changes and differences easily without relying on traditional track-change methods.
- Access OneDrive seamlessly through multiple Microsoft applications, including Outlook, Teams, or directly via browser at OneDrive.live.com, ensuring convenient file management and productivity.
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So Microsoft OneDrive. I know we've had to store stuff in OneDrive, but you can actually do things in OneDrive. So, like before, when I said to summarize a file, it was kind of tedious to browse to find the file.
But if it's just in OneDrive, it would be easier to go to OneDrive and, say, summarize from there, or to ask a question from there, or compare files from there. So you can also do this in OneDrive itself. When we go to the OneDrive.live.com to go to OneDrive, or, let's say we go over here, let's say you're in Teams and you're in OneDrive, that's another way you can access it.
But let's say, can we do this in Outlook? I think Outlook might also have a OneDrive button over there, too. I can't remember if Outlook also had it. They have OneDrive over here.
Yeah, they also had OneDrive over here, too. So however you want to access it, if you want to access it through Outlook, if you want to access it through Teams, these are all still the same OneDrive. If you want to access it through the browser, that's also fine.
OneDrive.live.com. I'll tell you, Microsoft has more websites than almost every other company. Office.com, Live.com, Outlook.com. There's so many different websites. That is the website, right? OneDrive.live.com. Try to refresh that.
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There we go. So OneDrive.live.com. I'm signed in, so it should just go in there. That's weird.
OneDrive. I guess I just click Sign In. Okay, I guess I get to sign in again.
CareerCenters.com. I'm already logged in, so hopefully it will not make me type in my password again. Okay, there we go. All right.
So over here I can go through my files, browse into a specific place. Say, for example, my Copilot class here. And I've got some files that I want to put in there.
Let me just put all of my files in there. I have them on my desktop. I'm going to take my whole folder there.
Copy it. I'm just going to paste the whole thing in there. I'll just take a moment to sync.
While it's syncing there, I'm going to come back and hit Refresh. All right, so I can go into that folder. Come on, I want to go.
There we go. All right. Okay, so in here, let's say, so here I've got a business proposal.
I've got it as a Word file and a PDF. So with any of these here, there's a Copilot button when I hover over it. And if I click on that here, I can say summarize it or ask a question.
If I choose to summarize it here, the nice thing about this is I can just browse to where I want to be and just say summarize this file. It's much easier to browse this way than to be in the chat and to say, like, let's go find that file. Because here I get to navigate my folders properly.
So these could be Word documents, PDFs, PowerPoint files, whatever kind of file you want to summarize, just like we would in the chat. Just an easier way to navigate to it. Also, if something is taking extra long, it might have gotten hung up.
So sometimes it's just easier to stop generating. Yeah, see, it went wrong anyway. If it stops working, either just stop it and restart it, or eventually it'll just stop.
Because it shouldn't take that long. But sometimes it gets hung up. I have a feeling it's just making up stuff to make me feel like it's working.
Just saying things. So I feel like there's progress being made. Having a feeling it's not going to want to do this again.
All right, let me try it on the other file here. Let's say to summarize this PDF. Today's been a little more error-prone than usual.
Try it again. I don't know if their servers are just more overworked today than usual. I'm going to try this.
Not that it should make any difference. I'm just going to try it through Outlook just to see if there's any difference here. Not that it should be any different.
Go into my class here. And then into here. And I will say to summarize this.
Summarize. There we go. Summarize.
Simple work share. Summarize. There we go.
Okay. Now you can see. So there we get the summary.
And we can either copy and use it for somewhere else or we can ask a specific question if we have a specific question about this. And if you don't want the summary and you want to bypass that, you could just say, let me ask a question about that. Assuming you know something about that that you want to go in and dive into more detail with.
Now, something we haven't seen before is I've got a version of this as a Word file and a version of the PDF. And they're a little different. And they can compare those PDF to a PDF.
It could be a Word to a Word. But even this is kind of interesting that you can actually compare a Word file to a PDF file. And it was an old page.
It could be format or different forms between. We haven't seen. I just see that.
Internet cut off for a second here. Let me start my screen share again. Okay.
So here it is generating the differences. So they're saying, okay, these are the differences. These are the same content.
These are the same content. But here they're saying there's some differences. Here there's some differences.
So they're kind of going through and saying what's the same and what's different. And they say the main differences lie in this versus this. So did you ask about comparing versions, I think, earlier before? Was that yesterday or today? I think you asked about something about comparing.
Yeah. I think somebody. This is really useful.
Yeah. This is great. So you can see.
Oh, yeah, I think you were asking about tracking changes. Oh, tracking changes. Right, tracking changes, yeah.
So this could be like if you keep different versions of a file, you can just say, hey, what's the difference between these versions? Like version one, version two, like what did somebody change? So even if track changes weren't on, you can just have it tell you the differences between them. And you can do it for up to five files. So you can do it for two to five files and it will give you the differences.
They don't go above five because they'd have to have like more than five columns. And once you get that many columns, it's kind of hard to see on your screen at any given time. So that's why they limit it up to five.
But you can have like five different versions of a file and compare them all and see what the differences are between them. So, yeah, so we saw summarize, the ask questions. You can ask any sort of question you want.
And you can compare your files. Yeah, yeah, in this case, you know, and I just show this with a word and a PDF because I think most people wouldn't think that you could compare across different formats, but it could be word to word, PowerPoint to PowerPoint. And, yeah, text to text.
Yeah. Yeah, create different stuff.