Planner Agent creates status reports from your plans
Short VersionPlanner Agent can now turn your Planner plan into a status report, covering overall status, progress, risks and next steps. You choose the audience, tone, length and reporting period, then...
Clarify my thinking with Copilot in PowerPoint
Short VersionCopilot in PowerPoint has a new built-in skill, Clarify my thinking, that asks you questions to help sharpen your ideas and improve your presentation before you share or present it....
Copilot Memory now uses insights from your work
Short VersionCopilot Memory now uses work insights, details it learns from your emails, Teams chats and meeting transcripts, to give you more personalised responses. You can ask Copilot what it knows...
Create interactive slides in PowerPoint with Copilot
Short VersionCopilot in PowerPoint can now create interactive slides: full-slide visuals your audience can click through to reveal steps, context and data. Start from the new Interactive Slide button on the...
Record a skill with Copilot in PowerPoint
Short VersionYou can now record a PowerPoint task once and save it as a reusable skill for Copilot in PowerPoint. Copilot watches the changes you make, drafts the skill for you...
Copilot in Edge gets a refreshed, simpler design
Short VersionCopilot in Microsoft Edge is getting an updated icon and a simpler side pane, along with upgraded features such as Copilot Voice and Copilot Vision. It's the same refreshed look...
Copilot in SharePoint: Select what you want to edit
Short VersionWhen you edit a SharePoint page with Copilot, you can now select a section or web part first, so Copilot knows exactly which part of the page to change. If...
The new Copilot: Home, Code, Autopilot and interface changes
Short VersionMicrosoft has announced the new Copilot, and it brings more changes to the Copilot app's interface. A new Home screen brings Chat and Cowork together, Word, Excel and PowerPoint are...
Brand managers can add custom skills to Copilot in PowerPoint
Short VersionBrand managers can now upload custom presentation skills to Brand Kit and share them across the organisation for use with Copilot in PowerPoint. This is one for brand managers to...
Prompt directly from the Copilot button in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Short VersionA new prompt input attached to the Copilot button lets you type or dictate a request without opening the Copilot pane, and selecting content in Word, Excel or PowerPoint now...
Ask Copilot straight from a Teams message
Short VersionYou can now select any message or text in a Teams conversation and ask Copilot about it directly, with that content automatically included as context, no copying, pasting, or explaining...
Share your Copilot sessions and responses
Short VersionYou can now share an entire Copilot chat session or a single response with a link, letting colleagues in your organisation view it and pick up the conversation in their...
Copilot in Teams gets a refreshed, chat-centred design
Short VersionCopilot in Microsoft Teams is getting a refreshed, chat-centred design that aligns with the updated Copilot app, bringing simplified navigation, an improved chat layout, better agent discovery, and new Work...
Copilot in Outlook gets a refreshed, chat-centred design
Short VersionCopilot in Outlook is getting a refreshed, chat-centred design that aligns with the updated Copilot app, bringing simplified navigation, an improved chat layout, better agent discovery, and new Work IQ...
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 early...
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. Now due mid-September 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...
What’s new in Microsoft 365 and Copilot? November 2026
*Members only early access* Welcome to our eleventh roundup of 2026. We review what was announced, released, and delayed across Microsoft 365 and Copilot...
