Elena Canorea
Communications Lead
Extra daily help in creating slide presentation graphics in a spreadsheet or a text document is always welcome. Or to summarise and analyze all the information in these files. And we’re not talking about human help: artificial intelligence helps you get the most out of PowerPoint, Excel, or Word. We are talking about Microsoft Copilot.
In March, we told you about the first features of Microsoft Copilot 365, but now Microsoft is launching a new update offering a much more personal experience. Let’s take a look at all the new features!
Copilot is an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that combines natural language with linguistic models, data, and Microsoft Graph to improve employee productivity using everyday applications such as Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, or PowerPoint.
As the name itself says, Copilot is an assistant, someone who helps you work to improve your performance or get you out of the most monotonous tasks. And at the same time, you remain the pilot, i.e., you control the business operations.
Copilot has been developed in collaboration with GitHub and OpenAI, whose GPT-4 language technology is integrated into the tool.
With nearly 150 new features and the addition of the power of Copilot to the PC, Microsoft has released a new update to deliver better AI experiences, including:
One of the new features of Copilot is the introduction of new functionality in Bing and Edge to enhance users’ everyday experience with the most advanced AI capabilities, such as:
Microsoft Copilot incorporates a tool called Microsoft 365 Chat. Linked to Microsoft 365 applications and the data generated by each user (chats, emails, notes…), it ‘listens’ to natural language to execute orders.
We already saw a preview with Business Chat, but the rapid advances of the last few months have taken it to another level. Microsoft 365 Chat reviews the entire universe of data at work, such as emails, meetings, chats, documents, etc., and the web. As an assistant, it has a deep understanding of the user, their work and priorities, as well as their organization. It goes far beyond simple questions and answers to advance some of the most complex or tedious tasks, whether it is drafting a strategic document, booking a business trip, or catching up on emails.
The latest addition to the Microsoft 365 suite, Designer, makes it possible to quickly create eye-catching visual effects, social media posts, invitations and more.
The expansion of generative AI for image stretching goes further, nurturing the image generation experience in Designer, making it easy to add higher quality original images to your design in seconds.
Copilot is integrated into Microsoft 365 in two ways. It works alongside the user, integrated into the Microsoft 365 applications you use daily (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams…) to increase productivity, access to data, and, in short, expand the user’s knowledge.
Here are some of the most confirmed features that add to the mythical Microsoft 365 package with Copilot.
The arrival of Copilot in Word means having the best companion for writing, editing, accessing, and incorporating information and summarizing as quickly and accurately as possible: making a first draft, including info of interest, adding related documents… In addition, it can bring a personalized tone to each task by knowing the document’s recipients.
Copilot in PowerPoint helps you turn your ideas into excellent presentations. If creativity is not your forte, Copilot becomes your ideal companion to tell stories in the best way. It can transform written documents into complete presentations, even with notes and fonts to reinforce your presentation. Or start a new slideshow from scratch from a simple prompt or outline. Condense long presentations at the touch of a button and adjust the layout, reformat text, or perfectly synchronize animations using your natural language prompts.
Copilot in Excel is here to facilitate data analysis and exploration. Forget formulas: simply ask about the presented dataset and access concrete answers, correlations, and what-if scenarios. It will also suggest new procedures and recipes for your questions, using models to help you explore your data.
Identify trends, create visualizations, and ask for recommendations to gain greater depth.
The time we spend managing e-mails is undoubtedly an obstacle to our maximum productivity. Copilot in Outlook is our best help to communicate better and faster. Summarize long and convoluted email threads with multiple people to understand at a glance not only what has been said but also each person’s different points of view and unanswered questions. Reply to an email with a simple prompt or turn quick notes into clear, defined messages from other emails or content you already have access to from Microsoft 365.
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In Microsoft Teams, Copilot helps you organize more effective meetings and meeting highlights and summarize critical actions, so your team knows what to do next. In chat, Copilot answers specific questions or updates you on anything you missed.
Adding Copilot to your meetings and conversations gives you a powerful tool to help you with everyday tasks such as creating meeting agendas based on chat history, identifying the right people to follow up with, and scheduling monitoring meetings.
Copilot will enable application developers to work with machines and humans to create applications faster and easier. Using natural language models, developers will develop apps by describing their needs through conversation.
Copilot will also allow users to interact with data in a chatbot experience, creating queries and refining analysis more intuitively.
In addition, Power Virtual Agents chatbots have been integrated into Power Apps. This will make it easier for developers to add AI chatbots to their applications.
By including these tools, Microsoft hopes to lead the revolution in low-code application development and move towards creating transformative software in a natural language that everyone understands.
Microsoft Power Automate has released two new features to enhance the platform: Copilot and Create text with GPT. The Describe it to design it, launched in October 2022, allowed you to type a simple sentence and create a workflow based on that description. With Copilot, the user will enhance and modify flows with AI-driven conversations. Users ask questions and receive help to make improvements and changes; natural language is used to create simple flows or complex business processes.
In addition, Microsoft has launched a new feature called Create text with GPT, allowing users to generate content in desktop workflows automatically. This can be useful for creating daily content, customer service, and extracting information from large amounts of text and documents, as it saves time compared to manual crawling.
In short, these new features help Power Automate users automate processes more intelligently, quickly, and efficiently.
At Plain Concepts, we specialize in incorporating and powering your business applications through artificial intelligence on a large scale. We have designed a unique OpenAI Framework to ensure the correct application of these services, improve process efficiency, meet production needs, increase business-critical security, and enhance regional compliance and availability.
Suppose you want to learn more about which use cases best suit your business goals or how to leverage the capabilities of OpenAI models in your business. In that case, we help you unlock the full potential of generative AI!
Elena Canorea
Communications Lead
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