Copilot Work and Personal become one app with a new name and clearer accounts
Short VersionCopilot is moving to a single app experience across personal and work accounts, adopting a simpler name and icon, and getting clearer visual cues to help you tell which account...
Copilot document summarisation in Word is moving
Short VersionThe Top of Doc summarisation experience in Word is moving to other Copilot surfaces. The capability itself isn't being removed, only where you access it is changing. Now due from...
Planner Agent chat comes to basic plans
Short VersionPlanner Agent chat is coming to Microsoft Planner basic plans, letting you ask questions about your plans, understand priorities, and take action without leaving Planner. Due late early to late...
Create and upload custom skills from within PowerPoint Copilot
Short VersionYou can now create new custom skills and upload existing ones directly from the Copilot experience in PowerPoint, without needing to build the OneDrive folder structure separately first. Now due...
Personal custom skills for Copilot in PowerPoint
Short VersionCopilot in PowerPoint will soon support personal custom skills. Upload a skill folder containing a SKILL.md file to a designated location in OneDrive, and it will automatically appear in the...
Summarise and categorise text columns with Copilot in Excel
Short VersionCopilot in Excel can now analyse a column of unstructured text, such as survey responses or customer feedback, and automatically generate categories or tags for each entry, helping you spot...
Copilot moves into the Outlook compose experience
Short VersionCopilot is moving from a separate assistant into the Outlook compose experience itself. Instead of switching to a chat window, you'll be able to create, refine, and edit email content...
Web content setting moves to Settings in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Short VersionThe web content setting in Microsoft 365 Copilot is moving to Settings and expanding to more Copilot experiences. You'll be able to turn web search on or off from one...
Create infographics in Microsoft Copilot Notebooks
Short VersionMicrosoft Copilot Notebooks is getting Infographics, a new way to turn your notebook content into clear, structured visual summaries built from the grounded references already in your notebook (1 &...
Changes to Notebooks in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Short VersionThe Notebooks experience in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app is changing. Chats, generated content, and reference materials for a project will be grouped together in one view. Now due mid...
Facilitator to answer unanswered questions in Teams meetings
Short VersionFacilitator in Microsoft Teams is getting a new capability that spots when a question in a meeting goes unanswered, then searches the web and posts a relevant answer in the...
Create branded presentations with Copilot in PowerPoint
Short VersionYou can now select a brand kit when using Copilot in PowerPoint to generate presentations, ensuring the slides Copilot creates automatically match your organisation's colours, fonts, and visual identity. Due...
Search your organisation’s content directly in Excel Agent
Short VersionYou can now search across your organisation's content directly in Excel Agent, including files, emails, meetings, chats, people, and transcripts, and use what you find as grounding for more relevant...
Shorter, more scannable Copilot Search summaries
Short VersionCopilot Search in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app is getting an improved summarised answer at the top of your search results. The answer will be shorter and easier to scan,...
Improved file selector for Copilot Excel Agent
Short VersionWith the new file selector, you can quickly find and select the files you want Excel Agent to process, all from one place. It makes it easier to locate relevant...
Copilot Cowork is now generally available, arrives with billing news and an interface update
Short VersionCopilot Cowork is now generally available worldwide, bringing multi-model support, new plugins, updated skill management and navigation, Microsoft Purview integration, and support for branded templates and image creation. Rolled out...
Copilot Notebooks come to Copilot for Basic users
Short VersionCopilot Notebooks are coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot for people with Copilot (Basic) experiences, extending it beyond those with a Copilot add-on licence. Now due from mid-June 2026.
DetailsCopilot Notebooks will...
Share your screen with Copilot in a voice session
Short VersionMicrosoft 365 Copilot is getting Vision in voice sessions, letting you share your desktop screen or mobile camera and ask Copilot about what you're seeing. Copilot analyses the visual content...
The Planner agent arrives in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Short VersionThe Planner agent is coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing task and plan management into Copilot so you can create, update and manage personal tasks and shared basic plans. It...
Turn Meeting AI on or off during a Teams meeting
Short VersionMicrosoft Teams is getting an in-meeting toggle that lets licensed organisers and presenters turn Meeting AI (Copilot, Facilitator and meeting recap) on or off during a live meeting. You'll be...
What’s new in Microsoft 365 and Copilot? September 2026
*Members only early access* Welcome to our ninth roundup of 2026. We review what was announced, released, and delayed across Microsoft 365 and Copilot...
