Word - Add a Table from Text with Copilot Video

Learn how to add a table from text with Copilot. Copilot allows you to generate an automatic table from a document and modify it using your prompts. Watch this video to see how you can quickly create tables from text with Copilot.

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Copilot allows you to generate an

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automatic table from a document,

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which can then be modified via your prompts.

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I have here a document on the history

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of France before the 20th century.

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I would like to generate a

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table from the entire text.

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I then select the entire document

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with Control A and choose in the

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Copilot prompt by clicking on the

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icon the option to view as a table.

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After a few seconds,

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a tabular summary is generated if

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I carefully observe the result,

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especially the first column.

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I noticed that the chronology

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is not necessarily respected.

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Therefore,

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instead of keeping the initial proposal,

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I will refine it by requesting a sorting

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of events based on the first column.

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It's much better this way.

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For the sake of detail,

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I will refine again by intervening on

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the structure of my table by writing

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a prompt asking Copilot to add a

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column containing the name of the king

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or leader associated with each period.

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After a few seconds,

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I have my table as expected.

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I can finalize by adding a title

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in the first line of the table,

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still in the copilot prompt area.

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Be aware, the requests expressed

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in the Copilot assistant are

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related to content and structure.

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It is not possible at the moment,

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as we see here, to express formatting

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actions like color in my example.

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The finalization of the formatting

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will remain my responsibility.

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We can hope for an evolution

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in this regard over time.

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I have nevertheless saved a

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reading and trusted Copilot for

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the editorial and synthetic aspect

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related to the table mode setting,

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and that's already not so bad.

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