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SMK-LINK VP6450 Pilot Pro Wireless Powerpoint Presentation remote with laser and mouse control… Pilot Pro features slide control, slide hide, laser pointing, complete mouse control and a USB receiver that stores inside. It’s 50 feet of radio-frequency range provides freedom of motion for audience interaction during a presentation. Just plug in the USB receiver and go. There is no complicated set-up. This innovative remote ensures that control is at your fingertips wherever you stand in the room. With such a complete set of features, Educators and Corporate Professionals agree that Presentation Pilot Pro is key to good presenting.

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SMK-Link VP6450 Pilot Pro Wireless Powerpoint Presentation remote with laser and mouse control - Control your presentations with ease using the inexpensive yet effective RemotePoint Presentation Pilot Pro. Advance and retreat slides with the click of a button-drawing your audience's attention with Pilot Pro's bright red laser pointer. As a presentation remote control, SMK-Link's Pilot Pro presentation remote control is designed as a PowerPoint and Keynote remote, featuring slide advance, retreat and hide buttons, laser pointing, as well as complete mouse control. There's no complicated setup or software to install, just plug in the USB receiver, pick up the Pilot Pro and start presenting. It's that easy.

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Microsoft Copilot Pro — 5 things you can do that aren’t possible in the free version

$20 per month for Copilot Pro

Microsoft’s new Copilot Pro plan goes head-to-head with OpenAI ’s ChatGPT Plus , charging $20 a month for premium features and access to the latest artificial intelligence models — but is it worth the price?

Copilot is the brand Microsoft has settled on for all of its generative AI endeavors across Windows, apps, the web and its productivity software like Word and Excel. 

You can chat with the AI, use it to generate images, make music and even write code. All of those features are available for free without paying the subscription. 

But for $20 a month, you also get access to Copilot in office products, higher quality responses and the chance to make more images.

What features are available in Pro

To better answer the question of whether it is worth the $20-a-month upgrade price I decided to take a closer look at some of the Pro-only features.

Microsoft has said that Copilot Pro users will get any new features, not yet public, including new versions of the OpenAI models before the free version. This list explores those features already available.

Turn your Word document into a PowerPoint presentation

The most significant feature of Copilot Pro is that it gives you access to Copilot features inside Microsoft 365. You do have to also pay the 365 subscription but it allows you to automate much of your workflow and solve the dreaded blank page problem .

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Among the most prominent features of Copilot 365 is the ability to convert a Word document into a PowerPoint presentation. Copilot can also automatically split the text across the slide and speaker notes in a logical way, or generate images to bring the presentation to life.

None of the 365 features are available with the free version of Copilot, although you could use it to generate text and paste that into a Word document or Google Sheet. It is worth noting that Google has its version of these tools called Google Duet that works in Workspace.

Improve your writing skills

Copilot can go through any 365 document, analyze its content, and offer real-time suggestions to improve the quality of the content.

This includes grammar and readability suggestions, as well as ways to improve the overal quality of the work or change the style of writing.

Priority access to the latest models from OpenAI

Large Language Models (LLM) from OpenAI power Copilot and the most powerful of these models will now be available to paying subscribers all the time. Until the launch of Copilot Pro Microsoft made GPT-4 available for free.

The GPT-4 family of LLMs offers better reasoning and more detailed responses, and with the Turbo version, much faster responses than previous models.

While free users will still have access to GPT-4 and GPT-4-Turbo, this will only be during off-peak and quiet periods. If the site is busy only paid-for-accounts will have access.

Create more images faster with DALL-E 3

The free version of Copilot includes access to Designer, the new name for Bing Image Creator. This lets you create 15 images priority images per day. You can generate more but you’ll have to wait and take your chances on not too many other people also trying to make images.

Paying for the Pro version gives you access to DALL-E 3, the most advanced AI image model from OpenAI and up to 100 priority images per day. Unlike earlier models it is faster, is better at understanding queries and can even generate text on the image — most of the time.

DALL-E 3 in Copilot Pro also allows you more choice over the layout — including creating landscape images rather than just squares.

Create your own custom chatbot

Late last year OpenAI announced GPTs, custom chatbots built on top of its ChatGPT AI. It released the GPT Store last week and now Microsoft is bringing the ability to create your own GPTs to Copilot — but only for paying customers.

Free account holders will still have access to use GPTs created by others, but they won’t be able to make their own. Some of the first will include fitness tools, chatbots to help you find the perfect travel destination and cooking helpers.

Copilot Pro users will be able to customize these bots or build their own around a specific purpose, such as giving it access to your fitness data and using it to help track and predict the impact of different exercises.

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How to use Copilot Pro to finetune your PowerPoint presentations

At $20 per month, Microsoft's Copilot Pro works with Microsoft 365 to bring AI-infused assistance to various apps in the suite, including PowerPoint. You can use Copilot's AI skills to create a new presentation, organize your presentation, summarize a presentation, and answer questions about the content of a presentation. Here's how the technology works.

First, you'll need a subscription to Microsoft 365 Personal or Family . Priced at $70 per year, the Personal edition is designed for one person using up to five devices. At $100 per year, the Family edition is for up to six people on as many as five devices. The core apps in the suite include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote.

Also: How to use Copilot Pro to write, edit, and analyze your Word documents

Second, you'll need a subscription to Copilot Pro. To sign up, head to the Copilot Pro website . Click the Get Copilot Pro button. Confirm the subscription and the payment. The Pro version will take effect next time you use Copilot on its website, in its mobile app, or in Windows.

How to use Copilot Pro AI for PowerPoint

1. create a new presentation.

Right off the bat, Copilot can help you design a new presentation. Open PowerPoint and select the template for Blank Presentation . Click the Copilot icon on the Ribbon. Select the suggestion for Create a presentation and type a request explaining the topic of your slideshow. 

Also:  Microsoft Copilot vs. Copilot Pro: Is the subscription fee worth it?

After you submit your request, Copilot will generate the title slide and a few subsequent slides for your review.

2. Add more slides

After reviewing the generated slides, you may want to ask Copilot to add more slides, perhaps focusing on a specific area of your presentation's topic. At the prompt, type your request for the additional slides you want, and Copilot will create them.

3. Organize the presentation

Next, you can ask Copilot to organize the presentation. 

Also: How to use Copilot Pro AI to generate formulas and analyze data in Excel

In response to this request, the tool will organize the slides into specific sections and add introductory slides for each section.

4. Summarize your presentation

Copilot can create a summary of your presentation to highlight the key points. At the prompt, ask Copilot to summarize the presentation. In response, the tool will display a summary of the main ideas.

5. Ask questions about the presentation

Finally, you can ask specific questions about the content of the presentation. Copilot will suggest some questions you can ask. You can select one of the questions or submit your own question, and Copilot will display the answer.

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Copilot Pro: What can Microsoft 365’s premium AI do?

Copilot Pro delivers the power of the AI chat tool Chat-GPT directly to your Microsoft Office applications and the Windows sidebar. The tool summarizes texts, replies to emails, creates new texts, analyzes Excel spreadsheets, and creates presentations.

A miracle machine that does all your Office tasks for you automatically? We took a look at the tool.

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Prerequisite: You need to get it up and running

To be able to use Copilot Pro, a few requirements must be met. First, you need a paid subscription to Microsoft 365 Single or Family (from $7 per month ).

Then you need to take out a subscription to Copilot Pro with the same Microsoft account for $20 per month. Both subscriptions can be cancelled monthly. You also need Windows 10 or 11 — we tested on Windows 11.

Copilot Pro will appear in Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office) programs, including Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point, and OneNote. However, it is not installed directly; there is no installation file to download and run.

Instead, after purchasing the Copilot Pro license, you must go to File > Account > Update license in any Office application. Copilot should then automatically appear in the program after restarting the application.

In the online versions of the Office programs, Copilot appears immediately after the subscription has been completed. This means that it is also available to Mac and Linux users. However, the online versions of Office are not to everyone’s taste, as they sometimes offer significantly fewer functions than the locally installed tools.

On our test computers, however, there were massive problems, which were mainly related to the fact that our Office applications also came into contact with a Microsoft 365 business license.

In times of working from home, many PC users will probably feel the same way. Of course, there is also a Copilot for business users, but it is more expensive ($30 per month) and requires a minimum number of at least 300 licenses.

Immediately after purchase, Copilot Pro appeared in the online versions of the Office applications without any problems.

Outside of the Office apps, the Copilot Pro license improves the Windows Copilot in the sidebar on the desktop, on the web at www.copilot.microsoft.com , and in the Android and iOS apps. There it provides faster access to the AI chatbot with Chat-GPT 4 and 4 Turbo.

Copilot Pro is also available as a mobile app for Android and iOS. Compared to the free version, however, you only get your answers a little faster. A subscription is therefore only worthwhile for the apps to a limited extent.

Word: Full speed ahead for the AI chatbot

Copilot can really show off its strengths in Word. After all, it is essentially an AI chatbot that can easily create texts on any topic, as well as summarize or revise the content of existing texts.

How it works: Copilot appears in two places in Word. First, it appears as a sidebar after clicking on the Copilot icon in the menu bar. All Copilot output remains in this sidebar and must be copied and pasted into the text area of the document as required.

If the co-pilot has created a text suggestion in Word, this appears with a blue background and can be further edited using the tool by entering correction instructions (“write in more detail,” “formulate more loosely”). After clicking on “Apply”, the text becomes a normal part of the document.

On the other hand, a Copilot symbol always appears in the text area when the cursor is in an empty line or text is selected. Clicking on the symbol opens a movable chat window. The answers appear directly in the document. However, they are initially highlighted in light blue so that the new text stands out clearly from the existing text and can be checked.

The Copilot input field has changed and now displays four functions: “Accept,” “Generate new” to receive a new answer from the Copilot to the same question, an input field to optimize the suggested text, and the “Delete” function.

Summarize texts: Copilot performed this task very well in our tests and can therefore be a real labor-saving feature. Copilot also summarizes the key ideas in longer documents and lists them with references to the relevant text passages.

However, small errors do creep in here too. We would not recommend this function as the sole preparation for the Abitur, the Master’s degree, the master craftsman’s examination, or an important presentation to colleagues. But as a fallback for an unprepared-for lesson or meeting, Copilot’s summarizing function is handy.

Summarizing texts worked best of all the tasks in our test. The result was not always error-free, but it was often sufficient for many purposes and really made our work easier.

Creating texts : This is the AI chatbot’s specialty. It masters it accordingly well and helps users to write homework, term papers, letters to the building management, or poems for birthday parties. Of course, there is also criticism of this ability.

Making texts better: The Copilot should actually also be able to improve texts, for example in terms of structure, writing style, or content. A task that Chat-GPT from Open AI fulfills with ease. However, the Copilot in Word often only provided general tips for better texts instead of text improvements. Presumably a malfunction that Microsoft is still working on.

Copilot Pro: Fixing installation problems

Copilot Pro should appear in Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams and OneNote. To do this, you must select File > Account > Update license in an Office app after purchasing Copilot.

The Copilot should then appear automatically in the program after restarting the application. In fact, there are sometimes massive problems with this step. The following tips can help.

1. Check the requirements carefully

• You first need a paid subscription to Microsoft 365 Single or Family .
• You also need the paid subscription to Copilot Pro, which you must purchase with the same Microsoft account as for your Microsoft 365.
• You must have the correct programs installed, i.e. the Office apps from the Microsoft 365 suite. A “OneNote for Windows 10,” for example, is unlikely to get Copilot in the near future.

2. Check the Office license

Your installed Office programs must be logged in with your private Microsoft account, which you have also used to subscribe to Copilot. Start Word, for example, and select File > Account , then “Subscription product for [email protected] – Microsoft 365” must be displayed on the right-hand side.

If “Microsoft 365 Apps for Business” appears here, Copilot pro will not be visible. Not even if your private Microsoft account is displayed at the same time on the left-hand side under “User information.”

3. Troubleshooting license issues

The Office applications react very sensitively to license problems. If you have always been logged into an Office application with a professional Microsoft account, there is a good chance that a business license (see point 2) will be displayed on the right under File > Account . Change this via “Change license.”

You will then be asked to log in with a different Microsoft account. Use the private Microsoft account that you used for the Microsoft 365 subscription and the Copilot subscription.

4. Error code 29

When updating the Office license, error code 29 may appear. Sources on the internet indicate that it can take up to 72 hours for the Microsoft license server to update after you have changed a license.

5. OneDrive

Check in an Office app under File > Account whether the professional OneDrive account is stored under “Connected services.” Although this should not prevent the use of Copilot Pro, it did so repeatedly in our case. Also, do not open any documents from the local folders of the work OneCloud.

What also helps in some cases are the old standard tricks. Sign out in Office under File > Account and sign in again. Restart the Office apps or even restart Windows. Classic troubleshooting, but still helpful.

Excel: The co-pilot crash-lands in spreadsheet land

We actually think we are the perfect target group for the Excel Copilot. Although we know more than the basic arithmetic operations in Excel, we are a long way from being able to use Excel professionally. The AI support for analyzing and displaying our data is just what we need.

However, we are downright disappointed. Firstly, Copilot in Excel only understands English. Given the technical terms used in a spreadsheet, that’s quite a hurdle. Secondly, our figures and our analysis requests do not seem to match Copilot’s skills.

Examples: The command “Create a pie chart using this data” for selected cells did not always use the data we meant. “Show data insights” returned the answer, “Sorry, I’m having trouble working on…” for most of our tables. We often saw this response.

But there are also things that work. Above all, the data analysis tasks that Copilot itself suggests provide insights — at least occasionally, for example with the task: “Bold the top 10 values in ‘X’,” where X stands for a table column.

We estimate that you have to invest a lot of time and brainpower in using the co-pilot in Excel before you get really useful results. The question is whether you want to. It’s probably quicker if you Google the formula or analysis type you need and acquire the Excel knowledge from the search hits.

Outlook: Copilot answers emails – and not in a bad way

With one click, Copilot summarizes the content of an email. This often works well, although not perfectly. It is better to read important emails in full, but some less important messages can be summarized. Copilot only works with a Microsoft mail account.

Until the end of our testing, Copilot for Outlook was only visible in the mail program’s online app and in the “ The new Outlook ” program. In addition, Copilot only worked for the email address of the Microsoft account with which we had subscribed to Copilot; it did not appear for other accounts stored in this program. A shortcoming that’s likely to annoy many.

The useful summarization function for incoming emails appears in the message window directly above the email.

Fun fact: In the case of a short email, the summary was even slightly longer than the original. However, it was a little easier to understand than the shorter original.

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Copilot on the web: Only a few advantages of the Pro version

Copilot on the web is the successor to Bing Chat. According to Microsoft, the latest language models (Chat-GPT 4 and 4 Turbo) and the new image generator Dall-E 3 are readily available to paid Pro users, even when the server load is high and free users have to wait.

With pure web access to the Copilot, a comparison with the original Chat-GPT from Open AI is obvious. After all, Copilot uses the same technology. In autumn 2023, we still found the Chat-GPT chatbot to be significantly more powerful and useful than Bing Chat (now Copilot). At least when it came to generating texts or acquiring background knowledge.

Today, the result is much more concise. The output of the two bots is similar as soon as you use Copilot Pro in “Creative” mode. However, Copilot Pro now offers integration into Office applications. This in turn could attract users from Chat-GPT Pro to Copilot Pro.

PowerPoint: Copilot is probably a help for beginners

Copilot can create slides with images and text in PowerPoint. However, we think that only PowerPoint newcomers can benefit from it. You usually have to work intensively on the text.

In PowerPoint, the co-pilot is only available as a sidebar. Here too, its ability to summarize content well is noticeable. However, this is unlikely to be the primary purpose for presentation slides.

Rather, a help function should appear here to create a slide from existing (text) documents. However, the Copilot does not have such access to files at the time of testing. And when copying the information into Copilot’s input field, the amount of text quickly exceeds the limit.

However, we also received the response that Copilot cannot create slides from this input.

What works: After clicking on an icon in the input field, Copilot shows possible jobs for it, for example “Create a holiday presentation about ” or “Create a slide show for a 40th birthday.” Copilot provides further suggestions via a website that it links to at this point.

Once a suitable assignment has been found for Copilot, it creates a presentation with images and text. In some cases, this can be a good starting point for your own slides, but it can also be completely off the mark.

OneNote: We are still looking for the intended use

Although we regularly use OneNote for our notes, we haven’t been able to think of a sensible use for the AI chat. But maybe that’s just down to our lack of imagination. There are certainly OneNote users who could make good use of the Copilot functions.

Conclusion: Fascinating, not for every purpose – and often still inadequate

The installation has its pitfalls, the user guidance shows weaknesses, and there are always errors in the results. Copilot for Office apps is not a finished product.

So why is Microsoft launching it on the market now?

Presumably because on the plus side, the tool can complete a task in minutes that would otherwise take an hour. That’s great and sometimes works — but not reliably and certainly not in all Office apps. Paying $20 per month for this option is probably only for technology enthusiasts.

What we like: The summarization of texts in both Word and the new Outlook is really powerful. Creating new texts in Word can be a real help, for example as a research aid or inspiration.

We find replying to emails in Outlook useful. And in general, access to an AI chatbot in Office is an exciting thing for us as tech-savvy users.

What we don’t like: Microsoft needs to improve the installation of Copilot. Spending four hours fiddling around until a tool works is somehow so 1990s. Copilot in Excel does something, but nothing that helps us.

A big minus is that the tool keeps making (small) errors. Either Copilot doesn’t do what you want it to do, or it does it with content errors. This means that everything Copilot creates has to be meticulously checked by the user.

Generally speaking, users have to invest a lot of time to find out what Copilot can do for them. We believe that many private users — for whom Copilot Pro is intended -s will search in vain for its intended use. For others, the tool can be helpful — perhaps even very helpful.

This article was translated from German to English and originally appeared on pcwelt.de.

Author: Arne Arnold

Arne Arnold arbeitet seit über 15 Jahren bei der PC-WELT als Redakteur in den Bereichen Software und Internet. Sein Schwerpunkt liegt auf dem Thema Sicherheit für Endanwender bei PC und Mobil-Geräten.

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