Copilot for Microsoft 365 is an AI-powered tool designed to enhance productivity within the Microsoft 365 suite of applications, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. It uses advanced language models to understand, summarize, predict, and generate content, helping users to create documents, emails, presentations, and more efficiently.
Microsoft 365 apps (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and Loop) operate with Copilot to support users in the context of their work. Some of these features are:
Microsoft 365 App Feature Description
Word
• Draft with Copilot
• Generate text with and without formatting in new or existing documents
• Chat
• Create content, summarize, ask questions about your document, and do light commanding via Chat.
PowerPoint
• Draft with Copilot
• Create from Prompt or File, leveraging enterprise templates. Integration with DALL-E, OpenAI’s image generator, also allows users to ask Copilot to create custom images.
• Chat
• Summary, Q&A, ChatGPT integration.
• Light commanding
• Add slides, pictures, or make deck-wide text changes.
Loop
• Collaborative content creation
• Create content that can be collaboratively improved through direct editing or refinement by Copilot.
Outlook
• Coaching tips
• Get coaching tips and suggestions on clarity, sentiment, and tone, along with an overall message assessment and suggestions for improvement.
• Summarize
• Summarize an email thread to help the user quickly understand the discussion. It can draft and suggest replies to email.
• Leverage content
• Pull from other emails or content across Microsoft 365 that user already has access to.
Teams
• Chat
• Users can invoke Copilot in any chat. Copilot can summarize up to 30 days of the chat content prior to the last message in a given chat. Copilot uses only the single chat thread as source content for responses and can't reference other chats or data types (for example, meeting transcripts, emails, and files). Users can interact with Copilot by selecting prewritten prompts or writing their own questions. Responses include clickable citations that direct users to the relevant source content that was used. Conversations with Copilot take place in a side panel that allows users to copy and paste. Copilot conversations are ephemeral and will disappear after the side panel is closed.
• Meetings
• Users can invoke Copilot in meetings or calls within the same tenant. Copilot will use the transcript in real-time to answer questions from the user. It only uses the transcript and knows the name of the user typing the question. The user can type any question or use pre-determined prompts; however, Copilot will only answer questions related to the meeting conversation from the transcript. The user can copy/paste an answer and access Copilot after the meeting ends on the Recap page. Copilot interaction history with the user is kept for 24 hrs.
• Business Chat
• Allows users to access data across their Microsoft 365 Graph and leverage LLM functionality. Business chat can be accessed in Teams and when signed-in to Bing with an active directory account.
• Whiteboard
• Makes meetings and brainstorm sessions more creative and effective. Use natural language to ask Copilot to generate ideas, organize ideas into themes, create designs that bring ideas to life and summarize whiteboard content.
OneNote
• Draft with Copilot
• Use prompts to draft plans, generate ideas, create lists, and organize information to help you easily find what you need.
Specifications:
To purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365, customers must have one of the prerequisite base SKUs: Office 365 E3/E5, Microsoft 365 E3/E5, Microsoft 365 Business Standard, and Business Premium (inclusive of EEA w/o Teams products where applicable).
Note that the inclusion of Office 365 E3/E5 as valid pre-requisite products for Copilot for Microsoft 365
