Office Online gets a little smarter with Bing-powered Insights

Office Word Online is about to get a little smarter with Insights for Office, which integrates Bing into the Word web app. But instead of being a search bar, Insights looks for key words or phrases in your document, and gives you information relevant to your topic.

Using Insights is pretty straightforward. If I was writing about the recent test launch of the Orion spacecraft, and needed more information about it, I would right-click on the word "Orion" in my document, and select Insight from the menu. Based on the context, Insights would surface a quick summary of Orion, followed by search results, images, and more, if applicable. It utilizes Snapshot, Wikipedia, Bing Image Search, and other web content to produce its results.

Source: Bing Blogs

Joseph Keller
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