Copilot M365 : Premium
Copilot built into Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Notebooks and Agents.
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PremiumCreate an Outlook rule with Copilot
No more digging through Outlook's rules menus: tell Copilot what you want to automate in plain language, and it creates the rule for you. Here's the principle, several concrete video examples, where to find your rules, and the few limits to know.
PremiumCopilot settings in Outlook
Copilot in Outlook isn't a black box: four settings let you decide how it works, what it treats as a priority, how it drafts your emails and how it handles your calendar. A quick trip to the settings, and Copilot truly works your way.
PremiumCreate an infographic from Notebooks, based on your own content
Notebooks (which you can open straight from OneNote) does more than gather your sources: with a license, its « Create » menu generates a full infographic from the content referenced in your notebook. Here, we use the fictional « Thunderbolt » project to turn specs into a share-ready visual.
PremiumCopilot Search: find the right file using natural language
You know the document exists, but you just can't find it. Copilot's « Search » section scans all your enterprise content (SharePoint, Outlook, Teams…) and understands a request phrased in plain language. Filters, sources, recent or shared content, and even a prompt launched straight from a file: here's how to make the most of it.
PremiumThe Library and Pages: keep a memory of your work with Copilot
At the end of a prompt, Copilot can turn its answer into a « Page »: a living document you edit, enrich, export to Word or PDF, share, and even reload into a conversation to pick up where you left off. All your Pages (and generated images) live in one place: the Library.
PremiumCowork in practice: a multi-task prompt and tracking credits with /cost
You know Cowork, now let's see it in action. An example prompt that chains several tasks at once, the right reflex to choose between Cowork and classic Copilot, and the /cost command to see how many credits your request used.
PremiumMeeting Recaps: all your meeting summaries in one place
An often-overlooked Teams app that brings together all your meetings, past and upcoming, each with an intelligent recap. No more digging through chats or emails to find a summary: everything is centralized, and you can even listen to an audio recap.
PremiumEdit with Copilot in Word: rewrite and enrich a document
A document that's almost done, but the tone is off, the text is too long, or content is still missing. With Edit with Copilot and « Allow Editing », you ask Copilot to rewrite directly inside Word, and even pull material from another source: an email, a PDF, another document.
PremiumDiscover Copilot Cowork
Cowork is where Copilot goes from an assistant that answers to a teammate that gets things done. You hand it a broad task, it breaks it down, works step by step, and comes back to you when it needs a green light. Here's how to get comfortable with it.
ChatSchedule a meeting using Copilot
No more back-and-forth to find a slot. From the Copilot app, simply ask in natural language to schedule a Teams meeting: Copilot checks calendars, suggests slots where everyone is free, and prepares the invite. All you have to do is click « Send ».
ChatTalk to Copilot: voice conversation on mobile
What if you talked to Copilot like a real personal assistant? Voice conversation, grounded in your work data and the web, makes your exchanges simpler, faster and more natural. Here's how to start it, how to dialogue well, and 4 concrete scenarios to get going.
PremiumThe 1P agents of Microsoft 365 Copilot: the full tour
You know the generalist Copilot. But did you know Microsoft already ships a small team of ready-to-use specialists? These are the 1P (first-party) agents, « Built by Microsoft »: Analyst, Researcher, Plan My Day, Workflows… Here's who does what, sorted by family, with concrete examples.
PremiumPersonalize Copilot: Custom Instructions and Memories
Copilot answers everyone the same way? Not anymore. With Custom Instructions and Memories, you teach it who you are, how you like to work and what it should remember over time. Two settings, a Copilot that feels like yours.
PremiumSchedule a recurring prompt: your assistant that works ahead of you
What if Copilot prepared your day before you even opened your laptop? Scheduling a recurring prompt automatically runs an instruction at the frequency you choose (daily, weekly, monthly) and delivers the result, without you relaunching it.
PremiumSchedule with Copilot: from an email thread to a structured meeting
Schedule with Copilot in Outlook automatically turns an email exchange into a meeting. Copilot analyzes the thread's context and helps create a meeting with the right people, a suitable time slot and a first draft agenda.
PremiumSave a prompt to reuse it in one click
Saving a prompt lets you store an instruction you use regularly so you can find it in one click, without rewriting it. Available with or without a Copilot license, it's the habit that saves time and standardizes usage.
PremiumAdd Copilot to a Teams conversation
Adding Copilot to a Teams conversation is like inviting a virtual assistant into the chat to help you summarize, analyze and make the most of the exchanges in real time. It then works with the context of that specific discussion: ideal for long conversations and team projects.
ChatWhere can you access Copilot? All the entry points
« But where do I actually find Copilot? » That's THE question that keeps coming back. Good news: there isn't one single place, but many. Here are all the entry points, from web to mobile, through Edge, Teams, the dedicated app and of course your Microsoft 365 apps.
PremiumA guided tour of the Microsoft 365 Copilot interface
You open Copilot, you see a text box, and you have no idea what's hiding all around it. Here's a guided tour, button by button, of the licensed Microsoft 365 Copilot app: the two Chat and Cowork spaces, the model picker, Work IQ, the Library, Notebooks and everything else.
PremiumUse a brand kit from Copilot in PowerPoint
Once your brand kit is available, apply it in one click in PowerPoint via the Copilot pane: colors, fonts, images and brand voice are applied automatically to your slides.
ChatGPT-5.6 arrives in Microsoft 365 Copilot
GPT-5.6 becomes Copilot's default model: stronger reasoning, native Work IQ integration and better quality in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Here's where to select it and what actually changes.
PremiumCreate a Copilot Notebook to organize your watch
Bundle files, chats, meetings and emails on one topic into a Copilot Notebook: a dedicated space where Copilot reasons only over your curated sources.
PremiumSend an email straight from Copilot
Draft and send an email without leaving Copilot: describe the intent, let Copilot draft it, tweak the tone, send.
PremiumSummarize your inbox and reply to an email
Ask Copilot for a digest of your unread mail sorted by priority, then let it draft your replies right inside Outlook.
PremiumGet the recap of a Teams meeting
After a meeting, Teams and Copilot produce the full recap: summary, decisions, speakers, which you can customize, share and even listen to.
PremiumCreate a Brand Kit for on-brand presentations
Define logos, colors, fonts and brand voice once from the Microsoft 365 Copilot app: Copilot then generates presentations that respect your brand.
PremiumDeploy official Brand Kits (IT side)
Enable tenant-wide “Official” Brand Kits: create the Brand Managers security group and configure the policy in config.office.com.
PremiumAnalyze an Excel table in plain language
Copilot understands your table's context and analyzes it in plain language, then, if you let it edit, adds columns, dashboards and charts, on a new sheet if needed.
PremiumBuild an executive dashboard from an Excel file
A dense workbook spread across several sheets? Ask Copilot for a single “Executive Dashboard” sheet: it analyzes all your data and assembles KPIs, tables and charts so an executive grasps the situation at a glance.
PremiumBuild a Copilot agent for a business use case
With Agent Builder, anyone can create their own agent, no code: describe it in natural language, add your instructions, enable options (images, sources) or start from a ready-made template.
PremiumSet up Copilot usage tracking with the Copilot Dashboard
Turn on the Copilot Dashboard “out of the box” in a few clicks from the M365 admin center, check your org chart, then move to custom reports and Power BI only if needed.
PremiumTrack your Copilot rollout with Copilot Dashboard
To steer adoption, the Copilot Dashboard (enabled via Viva Insights) is the best fit: track Copilot Chat and Microsoft 365 Copilot, per app and more granularly than the native reports.
PremiumPrepare your team conversations with the Researcher agent
Managers: lean on the Researcher agent, powered by Work IQ, to prepare annual reviews, 1:1s, feedback, team syncs and objectives, grounded in your real exchanges, in depth.
PremiumWhy can I trust Microsoft 365 Copilot?
Your data stays your data: Copilot honors existing permissions, never trains models on your content and shares nothing across tenants. The green “Enterprise Data Protection” shield confirms it visually.
ChatOrganization prompts: structure and reuse your Copilot interactions
Available with and without a Copilot M365 license: publish prompts at the organization level to give your users ready-to-use, consistent and reusable starting points.