The Microsoft 365 Copilot preview channel is open, so you can experience it for free
The Microsoft 365 subscription (personal/family, E5 should be available) preview channel has now provided Copilot support updates, currently only supports Word, and the language is only English.
"One hundred years from now, we'll look back at this moment. That was the beginning of the true digital age."
On the evening of March 16, Jared Spataro, Microsoft's global vice president and Microsoft 365 global business unit, used this sentence to emphasize the significance of Microsoft 365 Copilot at the opening of the press conference. With the power of artificial intelligence, Microsoft 365 Copilot turns the user's language expression into a powerful production tool, making office work more efficient.
Once Microsoft announced this news, it caused quite a stir in various industries. However, Microsoft 365 Copilot has not yet been officially released. At present, we can use some methods to experience the DogFood test version of the preview channel (these versions of the dog food test may be very unstable, so the version that needs to be experienced in this article may be very unstable, please pay attention.
remind:
You must have an office365 subscription (personal or home edition) or E5 subscription (please refer to the application guide below) to perform the following operations
The version of the dog food preview channel is an early version, which has great instability. It is only suitable for tasting and cannot be used as a productivity tool. Copilot is currently in an early version, and its functions are not perfect. Currently, it only supports English, just for trying
1. Preparation tools
You need a Microsoft 365 subscription (Personal or Family) or an E5 subscription .
If you do not have a personal or family version of the Microsoft 365 subscription service, you can follow the steps below to apply for an office E5 developer subscription for free:
Office365 Development Edition E5 is provided for developers and is an official event of Microsoft. Applying for the Office 365 Developer Program can get a 3-month free Office365 E5. The E5 plan includes 25 licenses for all Office 365 applications. If you think the genuine office365 is expensive, this is a good opportunity for you to get office for free.
Apply for an account
Now the application links of many tutorials on the Internet are invalid. The reason is that the famous "Microsoft Rename Department" changed the name of Office 365 to Microsoft 365 , and the relevant URLs have also been replaced. The latest application link: https://developer.microsoft.com /zh-cn/microsoft-365/dev-program
After opening the link, click "Join Now" to log in to your Microsoft account. I won't go into details here (no? Create one yourself)
After logging in to the account, it will jump to the filling page, fill in according to your own situation, and the company can fill in at will.
Configure Sandbox
After completing the previous step, you will be redirected to this page:
If the language you use is Simplified Chinese, then the URL you are opening now is:
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If you want a custom domain, choose the second, if you don't want to bother, you can choose the first, and bloggers choose the second.
In this step, you need to fill in the information yourself, and be sure to remember the account number and password.
To verify the mobile phone number, you can use a mobile phone number in mainland China.
After the setting is complete, switch the page back to Simplified Chinese (
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When logging in, please use your xxx@xxx.onmicrosoft.com account when configuring!
2. Operation steps
1. Search into Registry Editor
path:
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\ClickToRun\Configuration
Modify the following values respectively:
AudienceData->Dogfood::DevMain
AudienceID->ea4a4090-de26-49d7-93c1-91bff9e53fc3
CDNBaseURL -> http://officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/ea4a4090-de26-49d7-93c1-91bff9e53fc3
UpdateChannel -> http://officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/ea4a4090-de26-49d7-93c1-91bff9e53fc3
2. Open Word, update Microsoft 365
After that, you can see that your Word version should look like this, or higher than this :
3. Open Copilot
Open the registry: path:
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\ExperimentConfigs\ExternalFeatureOverrides\word
Create a new REG_SZ (string) value:
Name: Microsoft.Office.Word.CoPilotExperiment
value: true
4. Restart the computer
Open Word, create a new word document, you can see the options of Copilot, click it and let it help you write copywriting
