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Microsoft copilot updates

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3hg2bYt19s

Here’s a summary of the video by Nick Harris, a Senior Copilot Cloud Solution Architect with Microsoft, from the “Microsoft 365 Copilot Connection” channel: In this video, Nick Harris demonstrates several recent, actively rolling out updates to Microsoft 365 Copilot across various applications. Microsoft Word Updates:

  1. Enhanced Document Summaries: The automatic summaries now offer “Brief,” “Standard,” and “Detailed” options, allowing users to quickly get key points or a more comprehensive overview of a document.
  2. Document Snapshots with New Tabs: Beyond the “Summary” tab, Word now includes “Insights” and “Discussion” tabs.
    • Insights: Extracts key metric information like phone numbers, mailing addresses, and specific intervals (e.g., blade replacement). Crucially, it also provides “Suggested Q&A” derived from the document content, which previously required explicit prompting.
    • Discussion: Aggregates and highlights conversations and comments within the document, providing a quick overview of who is collaborating and what changes or discussions are taking place.
  3. Image Uploads in Copilot Chat: Users can now upload images directly into the Copilot chat pane within Word, enabling Copilot to leverage its vision capabilities to analyze and provide insights based on visual content.

Microsoft Excel Updates:

  1. Direct Table Creation from Prompt: When opening a blank Excel file, Copilot can now generate structured tables with specified rows and columns, including optional example data, conditional formatting, and even basic formulas, directly from a natural language prompt.
  2. Enhanced Prompt Examples: The Copilot pane in Excel now offers a wider range of suggested prompts to help users get started, including options for creating charts, pivot tables, or performing advanced data analysis using Python.

Microsoft PowerPoint Updates:

  1. Brand/Organization Templates: Copilot now facilitates easier adherence to organizational branding. When creating a new presentation, users can select brand templates uploaded by IT administrators to SharePoint Online, making it simple to maintain a consistent corporate identity.
  2. Slide Design Suggestions & Imagery: Copilot helps create visually appealing presentations by suggesting design layouts and incorporating contextual imagery that aligns with the presentation’s content.
  3. Presentation Translations: A powerful new feature allows users to translate an entire presentation into a different language (e.g., Spanish). Copilot creates a new copy of the presentation with all text translated. (Note: Users are advised to review the translated content for linguistic nuances).

Microsoft 365 Copilot (Business Chat) Update:

  1. Scoping to SharePoint Locations: In the core Microsoft 365 Copilot chat experience (when the “Work” toggle is selected), users can now provide a hyperlink to a specific SharePoint site, document library, or folder. Copilot will then intelligently retrieve information only from that specified location, enhancing data governance and ensuring more focused, relevant responses from organizational content. (Note: There are limitations to how much data Copilot can consume from very large locations, so it might provide a subset of files).

Nick concludes by thanking viewers for their support and encourages them to like, share, and subscribe, emphasizing the continuous evolution of AI to enhance work.

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