Microsoft Office Meets AI: What Every Language Professional Should Know π€
Youβve seen the little Copilot icon popping up in Word, Excel, or PowerPointβbut what exactly does it do? And is it actually helpful for translators and interpreters?
In this 60-minute webinar, you'll learn to:
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Use Copilot to polish, summarize, and organize your texts
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Get help with QA, formulas, and glossaries in Excel
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Build presentations and extract terminology in PowerPoint
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Understand the costs, opt-out options, and whatβs coming next
Join me and Nora DΓaz and learn how to use Microsoft's Copilot to streamline your translation and interpreting work β without buying or learning a brand-new app.
Please note: Although this webinar discusses features of Microsoft products, it is organized independently by techforword and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft.
Links:
- Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft Learn
- Protecting Client Confidentiality in the AI Era (free course): https://tfw.rocks/confidentiality
- How Microsoftβs AI Credits work
- How to downgrade to Microsoft 365 Personal (the cheaper version without AI)
- 11 Ways to Boost your Translation and Interpreting with Copilot in Edge
- How to create video with Clipchamp on Windows (support article for commercial users)
- AI in Interpreting Summit
- AI in Interpreting Bootcamp (find your 20% insiders discount code here)
Shortcut to launch the Copilot AI Assistant on Word:
- Windows: Alt + I
- Mac: Ctrl + L
Powerpoint Prompts:
- Terminology extraction: Extract key terms, phrases and expressions from this presentation. Present them in a bilingual EN-ES table. Thoroughly check each slide, including the notes, to complete this task.
- Timeline: Extract key dates from this presentation, and present them as a timeline.
- Named entities: Extract all named entities from this presentation. Classify them into different categories. Spell out all abbreviations. Add definitions for each extracted named entity.
QA formulas (missing translation, length mismatch, missing punctuation) for Excel:
=IF(AND(NOT(ISBLANK($A2)),ISBLANK($B2)),βMissing Translationβ,ββ)
=IF(ABS(LEN($A2)-LEN($B2))>20,βLength Mismatchβ,ββ)
=IF(OR(RIGHT($A2,1)<>β.β,RIGHT($B2,1)<>β.β),βMissingβ,ββ)
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