What are you doing on Thursday, 5th June at 12:00 – 12:35 BST?
I’m running a session called “You switched on Microsoft 365 Copilot. Now what?” — it’s all about the quiet shift toward passive, no-prompt usage and how Copilot is helping people work smarter without needing to be AI experts. If prompting has felt like a barrier, you’ll love what’s new and what’s coming. Come along — I’d love to share what we’re seeing!
The session will be live, just 35 minutes long and is free to join. Sign up here.
Short Version
The Copilot summary at the top of Word documents will soon gain new tabs in addition to the Summary tab: Insights, Activity, Discussion and Coaching. Due late April to August 2025.
Details
If you have a Copilot licence and you open a Word document, you will see the option to view a summary (or snapshot) of the document at the top:
This summary is to become the first of five tabs in the new document snapshot:
Let’s look at each of these tabs:
Summary – Choose the level of summary detail – brief, standard, or detailed. The detailed summary will support up to 3000 pages in a document, an upgrade from the previous cap of 300 pages. A version of this is available now, with the enhancements rolling out in April/May 2025.
Insights – A quick view of key numbers in the document. Due late April 2025 for Web and from July 2025 for desktop.
Activity – See what has changed in the document since you opened it. You can also view what’s happened over the last 3 days, 1 week or 2 weeks. Due mid-May 2025 for Web and from July 2025 for desktop.
Discussion – See a summary of all active comments and discussions. Due mid-May 2025 for Web and around August 2025 for desktop.
Coaching – View suggestions to improve your document. Due June 2025 for Web, a date for desktop is to be confirmed.
Availability
Due late April to August 2025 (see above for more details).
Source, related links, and references
MC1060867.
365 Roadmap ID 483519.
Image(s): Microsoft.
Page originally published
1st May 2025 and kept up to date.
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