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Introducing "Copilot" by Microsoft: Your Everyday AI Companion

Microsoft has just unveiled its game-changing innovation, "Copilot," designed to be your indispensable AI companion, simplifying and enhancing your everyday tasks. In words of Microsoft, it combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with your data in the Microsoft Graph and the Microsoft 365 apps to turn your words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet.


Here's a comprehensive overview of what Copilot can do for you in Word, Excel, Presentation, Outlook, and Teams. Here’s everything you need to know!


1. Microsoft Word

Unleash your creativity at work. Having a writer's block? Copilot comes to rescue.

  • Leverage your files and documents as input and generate a first draft.

  • Copilot scans the target files and generates a first draft with all key points.

  • Format it by adding files for your reference. Insert images, include short summaries, and add FAQs.

2. Microsoft excel

Helps you make sense of all your data. Turns the sea of data into clear insights and actions.

  • Ask Copilot to analyze your sales data and recommend 3 key trends, within seconds- you got what you need!

  • Add visuals/ graphs to your data for a better understanding of your data.

  • Use what-if scenarios to create a simple model for simplifying your data and provide step step-wise process!

3. Powerpoint presentation

Want to save time and be a better presenter? Now you can turn your proposal into a customer-ready presentation.

  • Now translate a Word document into a presentation with just a few words and vice versa.

  • Get a professional-looking presentation that you can hone and polish.

  • Add extra slides with just a text prompt, make a wordy slide with more visuals, and add professional animations to your slide in just a single click.

  • Copilot even generates speaker notes for all your slides! Isn't it a time saver?

4. Outlook

Want to stay on top of your email? Here’s a productivity game changer.

  • Copilot can help you separate the signal from the noise, and triage your inbox to prioritize your emails.

  • On the mobile, it helps you summarize long email threads, and draft a reply using data from Excel. Make it more concise, and change the writing style!

5. Teams

Business chat in teams is everything you need to keep you always prepared!


  • Copilot can summarise all your recent customer interactions, meetings, content you’ve shared, issues, and deliverables.

  • Works across your calendar, emails, chats, documents, and meetings.

  • Get a concise summary with citations (View or verify citation)

Copilot is more than just an AI assistant; it's a revolutionary tool that can elevate your productivity and efficiency across multiple tasks. Welcome to a new era of seamless and simplified work with Copilot by your side. With Copilot, you’re always in control. You decide what to keep, modify or discard. Now, you can be more creative in Word, more analytical in Excel, more expressive in PowerPoint, more productive in Outlook and more collaborative in Teams.


GitHub data shows that Copilot promises to unlock productivity for everyone. Among developers who use GitHub Copilot, 88% say they are more productive, 74% say that they can focus on more satisfying work, and 77% say it helps them spend less time searching for information or examples.


But Copilot doesn’t just supercharge individual productivity. It creates a new knowledge model for every organization — harnessing the massive reservoir of data and insights that lies largely inaccessible and untapped today. Business Chat works across all your business data and apps to surface the information and insights you need from a sea of data — so knowledge flows freely across the organization, saving you valuable time searching for answers. You will be able to access Business Chat from Microsoft 365.com, from Bing when you’re signed in with your work account, or from Teams.





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