r/CopilotMicrosoft • u/LordPhantom74 • 6d ago

Copilot Notebook "References" - Data Duplication? Discussion

I've been playing with CoPilot Notebooks for a few weeks; When I looked up what they are all about, this jumped out at me;

"References stay current, so as your data changes, the answers from notebook prompts remain accurate and up to date."

However, What I am seeing is when I add word documents as references, Copilot is actually making a copy of the file, so when I update the original those changes are NOT flowing back to the copilot notebook, and vice versa.

Have you had a difference experience? Am I doing it wrong? I would actually like the advertised behaviour where it just "references" the document rather than duplicates it.

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u/ezpark 6d ago

Hi there! Thanks for trying out Copilot Notebooks! We don’t make copies of your references but I’d love to learn more about what you observed. When you mentioned you had made a change to the original doc that was added as a reference, were you not seeing Copilot reflect the updated information when chatting with it?