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As your everyday AI companion, Microsoft 365 Copilot assists you with everything from starting with a blank page to finding the perfect words. It simplifies tasks, boosting your productivity and ensuring you focus on what matters most. We are continually adding new features and improvements to meet your needs. These updates help you discover insights, creativity, and excitement in a new way of working. 

Maximize your experience by exploring the Microsoft Copilot video tutorials and learn how to create powerful prompts at Prompts to try.

Note: The features are available to users with Copilot Pro and Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses.

Popular prompts

"Summarize messages from my manager in the last 48 hours"

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"Provide a comprehensive summary of my emails about /[the FY24 Sales Report]."

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December updates

Schedule meetings from your inbox Image of Outlook icon

Organizing meetings has never been easier. With the new Outlook for Windows and the web, Copilot can pull the main points from an email conversation and instantly set up a meeting.

Try in Outlook

Create your perfect message Image of Outlook icon

Use Copilot to rewrite portions of your email to achieve the tone, length, and style that you want.

Try in Outlook

Save and access your favorite prompts Image of Copilot icon

Save a prompt that you’ve used to easily access it for next time, or try saved prompts in Copilot or the Prompt Gallery.

Try in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Improvements based on your feedback

Get connected to approved images ​​​​​​​

Copilot in PowerPoint and Word connects with your organization's SharePoint asset library so you quickly access admin-approved, brand-consistent images.

Try in PowerPoint

Tell a better story with narrative builder ​​​​​​​

Copilot in PowerPoint and Word connects with your organization's SharePoint asset library so you quickly access admin-approved, brand-consistent images.

Try in PowerPoint

Unlock Advanced Data Analysis in Excel with Python Image of the Excel icon

Use natural language to perform sophisticated tasks like forecasting, risk analysis, and machine learning in Excel with Copilot and Python. ​​​​​​​Try in Excel

Book Smarter with Microsoft Places Image of the Teams icon Image of Outlook icon

Get AI-powered insights for booking rooms and managing office spaces in Teams and Outlook.

Try in Teams

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Get Started Faster with One-Click Prompts in Word Image of Word icon

Copilot in Word now offers ready-made prompts to help you start writing right away, whether you're working from a blank page or trying to structure your thoughts quickly.

Try in Word

Simplify Team Collaboration with SharePoint Agents Image of SharePoint icon

Create agents in SharePoint to improve team workflows for tasks like FAQs on product updates or team projects. Share these agents across SharePoint and Teams for enhanced collaboration.

Try in SharePoint

Save Time with One-Click Prompts in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Image of Copilot icon

Copilot Chat now includes ready-made, relevant prompts based on your emails, files, and meetings, helping you get more done with less effort.

Try in Copilot Chat

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Improvements based on your feedback

Easily Upload Files in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat ​​​​​​​ Image of Copilot icon

Attach and reference local files in your Copilot Chat prompts, making it even easier to access templates and offline documents.

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Protect Documents with Automatic Confidentiality Labels Image of Word icon​​​​​​​

Word now automatically adjusts document confidentiality levels when referencing secure files to ensure sensitive information is always protected.

Try in Word​​​​​​​

Optimize your workflow with Copilot Agents

With Copilot Agents, you'll have an AI assistant at your side to help perform a variety of tasks, offer suggestions, automate repetitive tasks, and provide insights. Choose from pre-built agents or create them yourself. Learn more here. ​​​​​​​Try in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Improvements based on your feedback

Give your files a professional look

Create images with Copilot using natural language in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat or leverage a pre-built agent like Visual Creator to create AI-generated images, designs, and soon, videos!

Try in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

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Reference longer content

Copilot can now reference blocks of content up to 75,000 words, giving you more data to pull when you need it.

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Analyze text columns in Excel

Copilot can now analyze columns of text in Excel to give you summaries of the information

Try in Excel

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Create draft quizzes in Forms

Try Copilot in Forms when you want to make quizzes, ice breakers, a trivia game, or team-building exercises!

Try in Forms​​​​​​​

Transform how you work with Copilot Pages

This new dynamic workspace in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat integrates all your data in one place, making collaboration effortless. Easily create, edit, and share your work without losing track of responses.

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Experience Copilot in Excel—now at your fingertips

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Copilot is now fully integrated into Excel, offering advanced assistance for data analysis and formula creation.

Try in Excel

Improvements based on your feedback

Enhance collaboration with PowerPoint Narrative Builder

Start with a branded template or new file and let Narrative Builder outline your presentation, complete with speaker notes and animations so you're presentation-ready in no time!

Try in PowerPoint

Streamline document drafting with expanded referencing

You can now easily pull in relevant emails, meeting notes, and contacts when drafting in Word for more efficient document preparation.

Try in Word

Maximize meeting insights with integrated chat summaries

Copilot in Teams now combines meeting transcripts with chat, ensuring no valuable input is missed. This feature is perfect for large meetings, providing a comprehensive summary of discussions.

Try in Teams

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Simplify file comparisons in OneDrive

With Copilot in OneDrive, you can compare up to five documents side by side, instantly highlighting key differences to help make reviewing contracts and other documents faster and more efficient.

Try in OneDrive​​​​​​​

Search for important information without leaving Word

Ask Copilot a question in Word chat and Copilot will answer using integrated Bing search.

Try in Word

Ask questions about a presentation

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Use Copilot in PowerPoint to summarize a presentation or answer specific questions about it.

Ask Copilot, "What is the goal of this project?" or "Summarize slide 5."

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Get precise information about a specific time period

Copilot can identify a specific time period - like yesterday, last month, or last year - so you can get the information you need.

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Improvements based on your feedback

Create a presentation without having to copy links into the deck

Reference a Word document as your source in Copilot for PowerPoint to get a quick start on building a presentation.

Ask Copilot, "Create a presentation from /[document]."

Try in PowerPoint

Reason over business data, survey results or project progress in Excel without a table

Copilot can now reason over data ranges with only a single row of headers on top.

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Analyze and interpret data using formula columns

Ask Copilot in Excel to add a formula column based on a selected table in your spreadsheet and analyze your data.

Try in Excel

Catch up on the latest updates

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Use Catch-up find out what's due, get the latest updates on a project, or find recent communications from a colleague or manager quickly.

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Draft and refine content based on your organizational documents

Use Copilot to do any of the following with the selected text, list, or table:

  • Revise or paraphrase existing content

  • Explain your selected content in more detail

  • Enhance your content with statistics and additional information

Try in Word

Improvements based on your feedback

Create presentations from information in PDFs

Copilot in PowerPoint can now read and search your PDF files, whether you link to them directly or let Copilot find them.

Ask Copilot, "Create a presentation using /[PDF]."

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Generate summaries based on multiple emails, presentations, and Teams chats

Save time by referencing multiple files and let Copilot handle the rest.

Ask Copilot, "Summarize my emails, chats, and presentations from last week." Or, "Create a to-do list from my 3 Teams meetings on July 3."

Try in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

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