Copilot in OneDrive is an AI-powered assistant that helps you work with your files. Instead of opening, reading, and sorting through files one at a time, you can ask Copilot to analyze information across your files, create new content from that information, organize your files and folders, and automate repeatable tasks.
To get started, explore ready-to-use prompts for common file tasks in the Prompt Gallery in OneDrive.
Prerequisites
Copilot in OneDrive is available in OneDrive for Business on the web. You need a Microsoft 365 Copilot license to use Copilot in OneDrive and SharePoint.
Note
Copilot in OneDrive is rolling out, so not all features are available to all users everywhere.
Ways to use Copilot in OneDrive
Copilot in OneDrive helps you get more done with your files. You can:
- Analyze information across your files: Ask Copilot to work across multiple documents to answer complex questions, identify trends and patterns, and find key details without opening each file.
- Create presentations, PDFs, and HTML reports: Turn information in your files into new presentations and PDFs, or visualize that information in an HTML report.
- Organize your files and folders: Tell Copilot how you like to work, and ask it to organize your files and folders to match your preferences.
- Automate your work with skills: Save a repeatable, multistep workflow as a skill in Copilot in OneDrive, and reuse it whenever you need it.
- Ask a question: Get answers from multiple files in your OneDrive without opening them.
- Compare your files: See the key differences between documents.
- Listen to your files: Generate audio overviews of Word documents, PDFs, and Teams meeting recordings that have transcripts.
- Summarize your files: Get a quick outline of a file so you can stay up to date without reading the whole thing.
- Review PDFs from the context menu: Use Copilot actions on a PDF directly from the OneDrive context menu.
- Discover prompts in the Prompt Gallery: Browse ready-to-use prompts and choose one for a common file task. See Discover prompts with the Prompt Gallery.
Discover prompts with the Prompt Gallery
The Prompt Gallery offers ready-to-use prompts for common file tasks. Use it to get started quickly, discover what Copilot can do in OneDrive, and customize prompts to fit your needs.
Open the Prompt Gallery in OneDrive
You can open the Prompt Gallery from either of these places:
- Select the Copilot button in the bottom-right corner of OneDrive, and then select What can Copilot do in OneDrive?
- In the Copilot chat pane, select the + button, and then select What can Copilot do in OneDrive?
When Copilot in OneDrive first becomes available to you, OneDrive might show an introduction that includes What can Copilot do in OneDrive?
If you close the introduction or the Prompt Gallery, you can reopen the Prompt Gallery anytime from the Copilot button or the Copilot chat pane.
Use a prompt from the Prompt Gallery in OneDrive
- At the top of the Prompt Gallery, select a category to filter the prompts: All, Create, Analyze, Find, or Collaborate.
- Hover over a prompt card to see the full text of the prompt.
- Select the prompt. The Copilot chat pane opens and the prompt is sent to Copilot.
Tip
Many prompts include placeholders such as [file], [folder], [person], or [topic]. Replace them with your own details so Copilot responds in the context of your needs. For example, change "Convert [file] to PDF" to "Convert Q3BudgetReview.docx to PDF."
Prompt categories in OneDrive
Prompts in the Prompt Gallery in OneDrive are grouped into the following categories:
| Category | Description | Example prompts |
|---|---|---|
| Create | Turn the content in your files into new documents, presentations, dashboards, charts, and PDFs. | • Create a project overview doc • Create an interactive dashboard • Convert to presentation • Merge multiple documents • Convert file to PDF • Create chart image • Create from template • Create an overview doc from a folder. |
| Analyze | Work across your files to answer questions, spot trends, and pull out key insights. | • Summarize • compare files • find latest updates • visualize trends. |
| Find | Locate files by topic, by who shared them, by where they were shared, or by when you last edited them. | • Find my files on a topic • Search folder contents • Quickly find sales figure • Find shared file • Find files from context • Find recently edited. |
| Collaborate | Share files and manage who can view or edit them. | • Share file with a person • Check user access • Grant edit access. |
Select All to see every prompt.
Note
- The Prompt Gallery in OneDrive is built specifically for OneDrive. Its prompts focus on working with your files, and it's separate from the Copilot Prompt Gallery in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
- Prompts that your organization shares in the Copilot Prompt Gallery don't appear in the Prompt Gallery in OneDrive.
- Admins can't currently add, remove, or reorganize the prompts or categories shown in the Prompt Gallery in OneDrive.
- Everyone sees the same set of prompts. Prompts aren't personalized to individual users or surfaces.
Learn more
Ask Copilot in OneDrive about your files
Compare your files with Copilot in OneDrive
Generate audio overviews with Copilot in OneDrive
Summarize your files with Copilot