The Best New Microsoft Copilot Features You Can Use Right Now

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Here are some of the best features and changes Microsoft has brought to Copilot this year.

However, since the beginning of 2024,Microsoft has offered Copilot as a dedicated mobile appas well.

As of October,the Copilot app (and site) even have a new look.

That changed early in 2024, whenMicrosoft rolled out Copilot support in Microsoft 365 to all Copilot Pro users.

Since May 2024, however, Microsoft has offered Copilot support in the Outlook app itself.

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Starting in July, Microsoft added the ability to generate summaries from multiple referenced files.

New options in Word with Copilot

In 2024, Microsoft has given Copilot in Word a boost.

Here are some of the highlights:

Use Rewrite on specific sections of a document.

Highlight a portion of text to summarize and share.

Create tables from your text.

Make new tables based on the format of previous tables in your doc.

Confidential docs are labeled as confidential when referencing them in new docs.

Pull from up to three other files to create new content.

Rework text, lists, or tables, and ask for an explanation of the selected information.

Search the web for content or information directly from Word.

Pull in emails, meeting notes, and contacts when writing in Word.

Copilot now has expanded paste options.

Ask Copilot follow-up questions, including requesting clarifications to previous responses.

Generate formula column options with one prompt.

Use Copilot to figure out why you’re running into issues with a task.

Ask Copilot to generate a formula column.

Copilot can reason with data ranges that only have one row of headers.

As of September, Copilot is now fully integrated in Excel.

Since June 2024, Microsoft has added new Copilot functionality to PowerPoint.

Create presentations from PDFs.

Start a presentation from a Word document without copying links into the deck.

Copilot can summarize and answer questions about presentations.

OneNote actually has had quite a few new Copilot features since January 2024.

Create to-do lists with Copilot.

Copilot can search through information within your organization for added context to your requests.

Ask Copilot to organize your notes for you.

Copilot now recognizes handwriting, so you might scribble out a prompt in the chat window.

You may also see a new Copilot option attached to the top of your Teams chats.

This lets you quickly prompt Copilot inside chats, pulling in documents with the/key.