CoPilot is an AI-powered assistant that helps support Microsoft 365 users with automation features for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams. It supports Bing and Windows operating systems as well. CoPilot offers suggestions, automates tasks, and aims to make users more efficient and productive. CoPilot was designed by Microsoft to leverage the large amount of processing power provided by Intel and AMD in PCs in their newly developed Coprocessors. The Coprocessors made by chipmakers, are designed to process large language models.

How to Use Copilot:

From the perspective of a regular user, CoPilot in Word can help users draft, edit and format documents. It can understand prompts in natural language, generate content, summarize long texts and improve clarity along with grammatical correctness for a seamless editing experience. In Excel, users can visualize, analyze, generate formulas, build complex models and provide insights. It can also help create compelling presentations. Users can generate slides from the content provided. CoPilot can also suggest design elements that align with the presentation’s theme. CoPilot can manage Outlook functions as well through managing emails, drafting responses, summarizing mail threads, setting up meetings and extracting action items from long email chains. It also finds its applications in Teams through facilitating productive meetings and collaborations. It can create meeting summaries, and create task lists based on topics discussed.

Accessing Copilot

The CoPilot icon is located where the Cortana icon was previously placed in the lower left corner of the toolbar at the bottom of the screen, for Windows 11. This button can be accessed for various features such as voice commands, information searches and file navigation. Bing and Microsoft 365 have a Copilot button to open a prompt interface.

For Bing, it is below the search box that says “Ask Copilot.” In the Microsoft 365 apps, there is a Copilot button in the toolbar for all the applications in the suite.

In Outlook, users can access CoPilot through the add-ins menu or the Help section. In Microsoft Teams, the Copliot icon can be accessed either through the main menu or during one-on-one group chats.