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AI in your documents

Copilot, Gemini, and Claude in docs, email, and slides.

New module, new scene. Priya opens the project update she owes her director and finds something new in the margin: a little sparkle icon offering to help her write. Her email has grown a Summarise this thread button. Even her spreadsheet wants to chat.

Ben is suspicious: "So that's a different AI, then? Do I have to learn it all again?" Priya isn't sure, but she knows how to find out. She clicks the icon and, without pasting anything, types four words:

Predict the response

On screen: Priya's half-finished project update, two paragraphs and a status table. She clicks the in-document assistant and types this, pasting and attaching nothing. What comes back?

Make this opening punchier.

What do you think the AI will do?

The names vary with the office suite (Copilot in Microsoft's, Gemini in Google's, Claude turning up inside more and more apps), but under every sparkle icon sits the machine you met in Module 1: a prediction engine with a context window.

What's changed is the plumbing. In a chat tab, you fill the window by pasting. Embedded in a document, the app fills it for you, with the page you have open. Which raises the question that matters: what exactly does it get to see?

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