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 Pro and Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses.
Popular user prompts
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“Help me prepare for /meeting.” |
"Summarize this presentation." |
April updates
Guide your creative efforts
Copilot can help determine which Microsoft 365 app is right for your project. Just select Help me create in Microsoft 365 and tell Copilot what you want to do.
Ask Copilot, "Create a report about best practices for running a marketing campaign."
Get formula suggestions in Excel
Use Copilot in Excel to generate multiple formula column suggestions simultaneously with a single prompt.
Ask Copilot, "Split the name column into first name and last name."
Easily understand ongoing conversations
The page analysis capabilities for Copilot in Loop now include the ability to get insights or ask questions about ongoing conversation threads on the Loop page.
Use Copilot directly in Outlook
Copilot is now available to use directly in the new Outlook for Windows and in the web version, using a work or school account, just as you can in other Microsoft 365 apps.
Copilot can find a specific email, summarize your meetings, or outline emails in your inbox that may have action items for you.
Organize your notes
Ask Copilot to enhance your understanding by offering solutions, condensing notes, making to-do lists, and answering your questions.
Improvements based on your feedback
Access your company data from anywhere
You can now sign in to the Copilot mobile app using your work email account to access your company's data in addition to public data.
Optimize your channel posts with Copilot for Microsoft Teams
Copilot is now available in Microsoft Teams channels, just like it is in chat and group chat. With Copilot at your side, you can rewrite or adjust your posts to make collaborating and communicating more effective.
Pull key info and prepare for meetings
With the new Copilot experience pinned above your Teams chats, Copilot can help you search, ask, and create.
Ask Copilot: “Create an agenda based on /[document] in a friendly tone. Include a table with key action items and deliverables."
Transform a doc into a presentation
Ask Copilot in PowerPoint to turn an existing Word doc into a fully designed PowerPoint presentation.
Ask Copilot: “Create a presentation from /[document name or link].”
Have a conversation in Excel
Ask Copilot follow-up questions, get clarification to responses, or chat about other things.
Ask Copilot: "Tell me what I can do with Copilot in Excel."
Access info across your organization
Copilot in OneNote can search and pull responses from all of the information stored in your organization.
Create a form fast
Use Copilot to make surveys, polls, and forms. Tell Copilot in Forms what you want and let it generate a draft that you can further refine.
Ask Copilot: "Create a survey about customer satisfaction with [product name]."
Improvements based on your feedback
Copilot in PowerPoint can now add images to your presentations to make them more engaging.
Ask Copilot, "Add an image of [subject] to slide 3."
When you reference a Word document tagged as confidential, Copilot will keep that information labeled as confidential.
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
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.
Copilot now lets you delete your prompt history while scrolling through it in Microsoft Copilot.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
View a short summary
Save time reading long email threads by asking Copilot for a summary.
Try it: Choose Summary by Copilot
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.
