The M365 Proactive Adoption and Change Expertise (PACE) team provides monthly updates on new features coming to Microsoft 365. In May, the focus is on Copilot for Microsoft 365, which has seen a significant increase in feature development, with 36 new additions in April, bringing the total to 64.
Key updates include:
- Graph-grounded chat with Microsoft Copilot in Outlook: Users can select the Copilot icon at the top of the Outlook window to type prompts and questions and receive responses from Copilot.
- Restricted SharePoint Search: This feature allows organizations to trim Microsoft Search results and limit Copilot to selected SharePoint sites.
- Call Copilot in Teams chat: The simplified compose box in the new Teams desktop and web app allows users to easily call Copilot before sending a message to help rewrite or adjust the current message.
- Draft by Copilot: This feature, which helps users draft new email messages, has now been released to Outlook Classic.
- Advanced Copilot features in Excel: Users can ask Copilot to utilize complex formulas such as XLOOKUP and SUMIF to bring together data from multiple tables.
Upcoming features on the Copilot Roadmap include:
- File reference: In May, Microsoft will launch the ability to ground your prompts in local files by using the new ‘Upload’ link.
- Summarise in OneDrive: Users will be able to ask questions about or summarise files without the need to open the file.
- Copilot in SharePoint: Users will be able to use a brief prompt to generate custom sites and pages with content hierarchy, design, and sample content that aligns with their needs.
- Copilot and Azure OpenAI features in preview: This feature will bring new ways to transform and analyze data, generate insights, and create visualizations and reports in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI.
