Module 3: Reading Long Documents — Use the Edge Sidebar to instantly summarize massive PDFs without needing to upload them.
- How can you use the free version of Copilot to analyze a PDF file saved on your computer's hard drive?
- Open the PDF using Microsoft Edge as your PDF viewer, then ask the Copilot sidebar to summarize the active page. — Use Edge as your local document viewer.
- Why does the Copilot Sidebar have an advantage over a standard web-based AI chatbot when analyzing documents?
- Because the sidebar is built into Edge, it has permission to 'see' and read the active tab you are looking at. — It shares the environment with your active window.
- When viewing a massive financial report in Edge, how can Copilot help you find specific data points within complex tables?
- You can prompt the sidebar to extract specific numbers based on a condition and format them into a clean list. — It acts as a data extraction tool.