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Analyze Web Documents With Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is available to Cornell faculty, staff, and students who are 18 years of age or older.

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The browser-based version of Copilot will respond when you ask: summarize https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/02/remote-cameras-capture-insights-nys-wildlife-populations but the Copilot sidebar in Edge can make this happen in just three words: summarize this page.

To use this feature you need to give the Copilot sidebar permission to look at the content of webpages when you ask a question.

  1. Sign in to Copilot from the Microsoft Edge browser.

  2. Open Copilot icon in the sidebar. (Feature availability and functionality may vary by device type, market, and version of Edge.) 

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  3. Click More options (stacked triple-dots). 

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  4. Select Notification and app settings.  

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  5. Toggle the button to Allow Microsoft to access page content. (Left and white is off, right and blue is on.) 

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  6. Tell Copilot to summarize this page.
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Microsoft does not retain any records of web content or PDFs you’ve viewed. You only need to turn the setting on once to configure it, and you can turn it off at any time. 

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