As your everyday AI companion, Microsoft Copilot helps you with a blank page or the perfect choice of words. It streamlines tasks so you can boost your productivity and be more confident that you’re focusing on what matters most to you. These updates can help you find the insights, creativity, and excitement in a new way of working. 

Note: The features are available to users with Copilot Proand Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses.

Prompts of the month

“Summarize emails where I was @mentioned recently. Make it detailed, highlighting the sender and categorizing by topic of the email.”  Try in Outlook

“What’s the latest from [person], organized by emails, chats, and files?”  Try in Microsoft Copilot

February updates

Stay focused in meetings 

Copilot in Teams automatically captures notes and action items from your meeting so you can focus on the conversation.

Try it: From your meeting window, select Copilot icon > Recap the meeting.

Now available in more languages

Copilot in Excel is now available in Simplified Chinese (commercial only), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, and English.

Looking for where to start in Loop? 

Ask Copilot to brainstorm for you. Use pre-selected prompts or type your own.

Ask Copilot, “Provide 2-3 ideas for a May marketing campaign for our new product.” 

Don’t be caught without a plan 

Use Copilot in OneNote to draft a plan, summarize notes, or even create a to-do list.

Improvements based on your feedback

You set the tone 

When you draft an email using Copilot in Outlook, you can now set the tone of the draft to make it more direct or neutral, casual, or formal…even make it a poem.

Try in Outlook

Erase prompt history 

Copilot now lets you delete your prompt history while scrolling through it in Microsoft Copilot. 

Try in Microsoft Copilot

January updates

Reuse a formatted table 

Copilot can help you make new tables with the same format as the ones you already have in your Word doc. 

Try it: Choose Copilot icon > Visualize as a table

Need an email coach?

While drafting an email, Copilot can provide coaching and make suggestions on tone, clarity, and reader sentiment. 
*Now available in classic Outlook for Windows*

Try it: Choose Copilot icon > Coaching by Copilot

Visualize your data

Ask Copilot to create a compelling chart to display your data in a visual way. 

Try this prompt: “Create a chart showing the profit margin for each product category for the last three years.”

Get a summary of your notes

Make notes using the audio recording and transcription feature and ask Copilot to create a summary and arrange the information how you want it.

Try this prompt: “Create a summary of the notes on this page. Arrange the information chronologically in bullet points.”

Opt out of recording or transcribing a meeting

*Available to Enterprise users*

Use Copilot during your meeting, even if it’s not recorded or transcribed. 

Try it: Open Copilot from the meeting options. 

Merge information

*Available to Enterprise users*

Ask Copilot to combine content from different documents into a single new document. 

Try this prompt: “Look at [doc1] and [doc2], identify 3-4 common themes, and then pull them together in a new doc.”

Improvements based on your feedback

Now you can search for files using the “/” function. 

December updates

Transform text into a table

Select your desired text, and Copilot will generate a table that matches your data.
*Only available in Word for the web*

Try it: Select text > Choose Copilot icon > Visualize as a table

Catch everyone up

Help people get caught up faster on a long email thread by asking Copilot to summarize it for them.

Try it: Choose Summary by Copilot

Turn your idea into a presentation

Tell Copilot what you want to talk about, and it will make, organize, and design a draft.

Try this prompt: “Create a presentation for a team meeting that includes budget, staffing, and project updates.”

Go deeper with your data

Copilot can select parts of your data to make quick charts or add new columns with formulas for your tables.

Try this prompt: “Add a green-yellow-red color scale to the 3rd column of the Marketing results table.”

Get info from a recorded meeting

*Available to Enterprise users*

Copilot can give you insights, explain context, and explore parts of the conversation.

Try it: Open Recap. Ask Copilot “List the project milestones in bullet format.”

Need answers quickly?

*Available to Enterprise users*

Ask Copilot about specific files and messages, or about info you can’t recall where it’s stored.

Try this prompt: “Summarize emails where I was mentioned recently. Make it detailed, highlighting the sender and categorizing by the topic of the email.”

Improvements based on your feedback

Summarize is now available in classic Outlook for Windows. Copilot in Outlook can give a summary or answer specific, open-ended questions.

Try these prompts: Ask Copilot to “summarize this email” or “what is the call to action?”

Ask Copilot questions about the content of your document in Word, PowerPoint, or OneNote, and it will give citations and references for the answers.

November updates

Write emails quickly

Save time by letting Copilot draft an email for you.

Try this prompt: “Let the team know that we need to choose fewer projects for this quarter due to the upcoming holidays.”

Turn a document into a presentation

Give Copilot the link to a Word document to create a new presentation.

Try this prompt: “Create a presentation from file.”

Get insights from your data

Generate highlights, get quick visualizations, or create new columns with formulas.

Try this prompt: “Calculate total cost per product in a new column.”

Got questions?

*Available to Enterprise users*

Get answers about a meeting, chat, channel, or anything you need from your organization.

Try these prompts: “What’s our vacation policy?” or “Create a table with the ideas discussed and their pros and cons.”

Collaborate about ideas

Ask Copilot to suggest ideas about topics, categorize ideas into themes, or summarize into a shareable Loop component.

Try this prompt: “Suggest inexpensive ways to optimize our website for organic search.”

Improvements based on your feedback

Use Copilot in Word to rewrite text that is more than one paragraph. Adjust the tone of your text to be professional, casual, imaginative, or concise.

October updates 

Start a draft

Get past the dreaded blank page and ask Copilot to create your first draft.

Try this prompt: “Write an article about the importance of collaboration.”

Catch up fast

*Available to Enterprise users*

Get a recap of recorded meetings, conversations, or files to learn what you missed.

Try this prompt: “Summarize what I’ve missed, including what decisions were made, due dates, and action items for me.”

Improvements based on your feedback

When Copilot in Outlook drafts an email for you, it will include your preferred email signature.

Create presentations with Copilot using your own branded templates.

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