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Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat allows you to easily create AI-generated images by simply describing what you want to see. Once Copilot Chat creates your image, you can further refine your images by adjusting styles, colors, and other details, making it a powerful tool for visual creativity within your workflow.

Tip: If you want to transform Copilot Chat into a powerful, image generation specialist, add the Designer tool to your prompt. Learn more about adding the Designer tool to your Copilot Chat prompts at Add AI tools to your Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat prompts.

Edit an image in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Edit AI-generated images in Copilot Chat using the image editing side pane by completing the following steps:

  1. Go to Copilot Chat and sign in with your Microsoft 365 work or school account.

  2. In the Message Copilot compose box, ask Microsoft 365 Copilot to generate an image and describe what you want the image to be and what it should look like.

    Icon depicting a document with sparkles Create an image of IT professionals in a meeting around a table with a large window looking out on a big city.

  3. Once Copilot has generated an image, select the image to open the image editing side pane.

  4. In the editing pane, you can select various tools to edit and adjust the image, like adding text or cropping the image.

  5. Once you’re done adjusting your image, you can select:

    1. Teams download arrow icon Download to download the image to your device.

    2. Icon for the copy button for Copilot in Word on mobile devices Copy to copy the image that you can paste elsewhere.

    3. Letter D to generate image with Designer tool Designer to open the image in the Designer agent within Copilot Create.

    4. More options to view  OneDrive Edge download show in folder icon My Creations,  Outline of three pages for Pages in Copilot Chat Edit in Pages, or  Mobile send feedback Send feedback to Microsoft.

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