Microsoft Highlights New and Coming Copilot for Microsoft 365 Features

In its latest monthly roundup of new Copilot for Microsoft 365, Microsoft also highlights some features coming next month.

“Every month we highlight new admin and end-user features in Copilot for Microsoft 365, enabling you to better prepare, plan, and roll out Copilot features that help your users be more productive and efficient,” Microsoft’s Seth Patton explains. “This month you will learn about expanded availability, new reporting on adoption and impact, Copilot Deployment Kit to drive adoption with your users, a plugin to extend Copilot in Teams meetings capabilities, and new end-user features in Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and more.”

Looking just at the features aimed at end users, Microsoft added a few interesting new features this past month, including the ability to rewrite draft messages in Teams chat (before sending them); Teams meeting management functionality so organizers can determine who can later access meeting recordings, transcripts, and AI-generated insights; the ability to reference PDFs, emails, and meetings with Copilot in Word, the ability to create new presentations from PDFs and encrypted Word documents with Copilot in PowerPoint; insights from the Microsoft cloud, Microsoft Graph, and Microsoft Bing search in Copilot in PowerPoint; and expanded data structure support and comprehensive answers in Copilot in Excel.

The firm also discussed some features that arrive in July. These include the ability to rewrite existing text on SharePoint pages and in new posts, and Microsoft Designer integration with Word and PowerPoint so you can add new images to your documents without leaving the apps.

You can learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365 on the Microsoft website.