What is Microsoft 365 Copilot? Guide to Features, Benefits, & Pricing

Copilot in Outlook can help employees save time by staying on top of emails. Copilot can summarize emails and draft responses that match your writing style and voice. It can help you prioritize your inbox to ensure your important emails have been followed up on.

• Draft an email
• Translate an email
• Summarize your inbox
• Prioritize important messages
• Generate meeting summaries

Copilot in Word is designed to make your writing process more efficient. Copilot can write content, edit pre-written pieces, and summarize important statements using artificial intelligence. Users can adjust the content produced by the tool to reflect their personal style or tone.

• Analyze a document to locate key information
• Rewriting tools so your content is clear and polished
• Generate documents with simple prompts to save time

Copilot in Excel helps analyze and explore data to identify trends. Simple prompts allow employees to review, filter, format, sort and edit data instantly. Professional and engaging charts can be produced in seconds with the click of a button.  Users can also leverage Python in Excel to create powerful visualizations.

• Save time with instant prompts, conditional formatting, and sheet-wide updates
• Visualize key insights from a large data set
• Generate complex formulas

Copilot in PowerPoint can create presentations using a prompt or written document. Users can enter a topic into PowerPoint, and Copilot will create a draft presentation, saving you and your team countless hours of preparation. The AI assistant can also condense lengthy presentations or adjust layouts.

• Create draft presentations with a single prompt
• Summarize lengthly presentations
• Organize and restructure your slides
• Instant branding to match your organizations look and feel

Copilot in Teams can assist with creating meeting agendas, summarizing discussions you’ve missed, and scheduling follow-up meetings. With Copilot, employees can follow Team meetings without attending. Copilot will send a notification once the meeting is ended with a recap and any action items for you specifically. 

• Summarize key discussion points
• Suggests specific follow-up action items
• Find buried data in documents, presentations, emails, notes and more.

Microsoft 365 Chat searches across your entire universe of data, including emails, meetings, chats, documents and more, plus the web. Like an assistant, it has a deep understanding of you, your job, your priorities and your organization.

Commercial customers with Microsoft 365 E3/E5, Office 365 E3/E5, and Microsoft 365 Business Standard/Business Premium are eligible to purchase CoPilot for Microsoft 365.

While there is no minimum number of users, customers must have a product license of one of the prerequisite base solutions mentioned above for each seat of Copilot for Microsoft 365 they purchase.