After a year and a half of development, Copilot—a generative AI tool from Microsoft—is hitting its stride, particularly within the realms of Microsoft Excel.
During the recent Microsoft 365 Copilot livestream, CEO Satya Nadella blank” data-ga-click=”1″ data-ga-element=”offer” data-ga-label=”$text” data-ga-item=”text-link” data-ga-module=”contentbody” rel=”noopener”>revealed exciting new features for Excel, as well as enhancements across various other 365 applications including PowerPoint and Teams. Among these is an innovative collaborative space known as Copilot Pages and customizable AI Agents designed to assist users in their tasks.
Though the event primarily targeted Microsoft’s enterprise user base—streaming on platforms like LinkedIn—it still unveiled numerous updates that appealed to all Microsoft 365 users.
The highlights from this significant event have been compiled below for your convenience.
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Enhanced Capabilities in Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, Word, and OneDrive
As previously mentioned, one of the standout functionalities is Copilot’s integration into Excel. It can assist users in formatting their datasets effectively while providing guidance on popular formulas such as XLOOKUP and SUMIF. Users can also visualize information through charts or pivot tables easily. Moreover, it now accommodates textual analysis alongside numerical tasks; you can search for keywords or phrases within datasets with remarkable efficiency—this feature is available now.
Migrosoft informed that Copilot has added support for Python scripting within Excel—making programming accessible without requiring knowledge of coding principles.
When it comes to PowerPoint presentations,, Copilot can efficiently create outlines based on specific prompts by aggregating related information from your available sources in Office 365. Subsequently,, it arranges this content into dedicated slides while integrating bespoke designs—including corporate branding or images generated by DALL-E 3 technology. The “Brand Narrative” feature will be released soon but does not yet have a definitive launch date according to announcements made during streaming session.
