u/GoghHard

Yesterday I opened Word and Copilot was no longer there at all. I did some reading and see that Microsoft is stripping embedded Copilot away from non-paying users and making it standalone.

However, my company pays $30/mo for a Copilot license for me. I've followed all the suggestions, updated my license, checked for updates, and it's just... gone. I use the installed (real) version of Word and not the online version. Standalone is still in the 365 ecosystem so there should be no issue here.

I've also read this was supposed to happen on 5/15, so please explain why they are removing it now?

Please help, I use this tool for my job daily and I am falling behind.

Yesterday I opened Word and Copilot was no longer there at all. I did some reading and see that MS is stripping embedded Copilot away from non-paying users and making it standalone.

However, my company paid $30/mo for a Copilot license for me. I've followed all the suggestions and it's just... gone. I use the installed (real) version of Word and not the online version.

I've also read this was supposed to happen on 5/15, so why tf is this happening now?

Yesterday I opened Word and Copilot was no longer there at all. I did some reading and see that MS is stripping embedded Copilot away from non-paying users and making it standalone.

However, my company paid $30/mo for a Copilot license for me. I've followed all the suggestions and it's just... gone. I use the installed (real) version of Word and not the online version.

I've also read this was supposed to happen on 5/15, so why tf is this happening now?

Yesterday I opened Word and Copilot was no longer there at all. I did some reading and see that MS is stripping embedded Copilot away from non-paying users and making it standalone.

However, my company paid $30/mo for a Copilot license for me. I've followed all the suggestions and it's just... gone. I use the installed (real) version of Word and not the online version.

I've also read this was supposed to happen on 5/15, so why tf is this happening now?

(I've posted in this group before so you can search my posts in this group for the whole story.)

I know AI is a dirty word in technical writing these days, as we are all aware technical writing is one of fields extremely vulnerable to job loss. But can anyone suggest AI tools that are available to me now that are either documentation focused or can be tuned to be used that way? I have to speed things up and automate where I can. Before you cuss at me, read on.

I am a technical writer with a small but fast growing company that has had no semblance of document control, management or standards since at least 2021. To say everything is a mess is an understatement. I write in Word because that's what we have. SharePoint is used like a global network drive. Everything is dumped in a library folder, co-authoring is universal and nothing is named, revised or controlled in any way. This has become culturally embedded in the company. Nobody on my team even knows what document control is or why it's necessary. My manager considers any of my time on it a time-wasting hassle.

I'm new, the only writer, and I'm drowning. The lack of truth sources, a control system, templates, processes, etc. has meant I had to create basic ones on my own, which is taking time away from writing the documentation, which averages 100-200 pages each manual, guide or reference.

I've built up Chat GPT as a half-ass truth source with what I can find and what SMEs tell me. With the right prompting and rules it can generate some content quickly but I always have to edit it. I'm using Co-Pilot to automate some things within Word but it's slow and flakes out a lot.

Any ideas on how I can leverage current AIs or even custom LLMs to speed this up?

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