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Microsoft Copilot For Dummies
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Microsoft Copilot For Dummies

by Chris Minnick
February 2025
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 44m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 16

Ten Plugins for Copilot

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Cooking with AI

Bullet Making travel plans and reservations

Bullet Comparison shopping

Bullet Generating music

Bullet Collaborating visually

Bullet Making your own plugin

Copilot plugins combine the creative and generative capabilities of Microsoft Copilot with traditional web applications and services to enable powerful new functionality. The most basic plugin is the Web Search plugin, which allows Copilot to search the web and use information that it finds when responding to you.

Interesting things happen when you get more specific with which websites Copilot can access and give it access to your account on that website.

Warning Understanding the potential privacy and security risks of using Copilot plugins is a big part of deciding whether to use them. Although I’ve installed ...

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