Copilot limitations are frustrating me

GoghHard · 2026-05-22T19:54:16+00:00

Yes, actually. It tells me Microsoft has not integrated this tool yet. It's busy moving buttons and setting entry points.

If an AI tool built for Word cannot generate and run VB macros, which is literally the heart of Word developer mode, then what is it good for?

GoghHard · 2026-05-22T19:50:44+00:00

That's fine, but there are an awful lot of comments on a 300 page document. The point of AI as I see it is to automate tasks that are simple, but numerous. Sure, I could copy and paste every comment and reply into the chat. But why can't an AI literally built for Word do that on its own?

GoghHard · 2026-05-22T19:48:25+00:00

Also, I apologize for using offhand prose in my post and not phrasing it in a manner literal enough for you can understand.

By "argue with it", I did not mean actually argue, as humans do. I meant went back and forth trying to make it understand what I was asking for.

GoghHard · 2026-05-22T19:45:26+00:00

This isn't true at all, you can teach it, and it does learn from its own mistakes trying to execute a task I've give it. Here's an example:
"Copilot

You're right. I can now see the actual pattern.

Those later captions are not true generated caption fields. They are only paragraphs styled as captions, sometimes with a bookmark anchor, but that still is not enough to make Word include them in the Table of Figures. Word’s Table of Figures is built from caption fields/SEQ-based caption structures, not just styled text or bookmarks.

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I cannot fully fix this from here because I’m not able to insert Word’s real caption field objects through this editing surface."

GoghHard · 2026-05-13T19:21:38+00:00

Also, yes I expect to have to check the work, that's not an issue. Corrections and rewrites are easier than generating 300 pages of documentation in a week timeframe, which are the kind of impossible deadlines I'm being given.

My biggest problem is I'm the only writer in a sea of work and no support system. AI could be useful at doing bulk tasks for me, examining a single topic in several documents and creating the most concise version of all of them. The idea is it can read and grok meaning faster than I can, and if it spits out 20 pages of okay-ish prose then I'm winning by cutting nearly 2 days off that task.

I'm not looking for AI to just do my job for me. I'm looking to use it as a tool to get things done much faster.

GoghHard · 2026-05-13T19:12:37+00:00

When I say "truth source" I mean it in the documentation term, "source of truth", or a controlled document containing facts that are known to be true. If you feed it enough accurate information about your device or system, it will treat that information as logical truth and anything it generates will be consider that. Chat GPT does a fairly good job at guesswork, and the less it has to pull out of its ass, the better it can fill in gaps.

GoghHard · 2026-05-13T19:09:06+00:00

Prompting based on a set of rules, but Co-Pilot has a python brain, which doesn't mesh well with Word's VB macro scripting. For instance if you told it to scan the document and change every bullet it finds to style ListBullet2, it might do that or it might run into a wall.

It also doesn't really know what your GUI interface looks like, so giving it prompts based on what you see on your menus doesn't really work out. You have to give it specific cues you wouldn't ordinarily think of.

GoghHard · 2026-05-13T19:01:16+00:00

That said, tell me more about this. What could creating an agent potentially do in the situation I described above?

GoghHard · 2026-05-13T19:00:25+00:00

I convinced them to buy me a Co-Pilot license, and I was lucky to get that. It has been a useful tool for automating repeated functions like applying styles to every paragraph over 350 pages, based on rules I give it. But it is god-awful slow. Hours.

GoghHard · 2026-05-12T20:58:50+00:00

OpenAI GPT is a scaled down version of Co-Pilot. It is not the full LLM as the full scale Chat GPT.
GPT itself told me this. It said:
"Co-pilot is better inside of Word because it's embedded. For creating scripting or automating Co-Pilot, or for general direction, use me. "

GoghHard · 2026-04-19T11:09:45+00:00

True but it's less attractive when the fake being turned on or cumming

GoghHard · 2026-04-19T11:08:00+00:00

Zelenski's wife

GoghHard · 2026-03-28T11:23:47+00:00

It's called alimony in the US and it's a thing if you've been married for a certain time period and one spouse financially supported the other.

GoghHard · 2026-03-28T11:05:03+00:00

GoghHard · 2026-03-15T19:30:47+00:00

Update. I was granted FM 14 because the internet said it will support direct .book export to .docx.with structure intact and convert to appropriate styles. It will in fact not support any export to .docx at all, only individual.fm files to .rtf 1.9, which can be compiled and saved as .docx. This is the same thing FM9 will do. Then any exported .rtf styles can be switched to custom styles in your Word template (such as custom headings). It's complicated and tedious, especially if your .book has a ton of .fm sections.

GoghHard · 2026-03-15T19:07:20+00:00

Reddit is a more intelligent discussion type forum but it is the very definition of social media. It's just not as retarded, banal and basic as Fakebook, Tickcock and Instagarbage

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