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The PowerPoint capabilities are particularly nifty. Using Copilot, users can create a presentation based on a Word document, complete with a slick deck, speaker notes and source citations. They can then refine that deck by asking Copilot to, for instance, \u201cadd animations to this slide\u201d or \u201capply a modern style to the presentation.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Outlook, Copilot can help synthesize and manage inboxes as well as draft responses with toggles to adapt the length or tone. (It\u2019ll recognize a prompt such as \u201cDraft a response thanking them, and asking for more details about their second and third points; shorten this draft and make the tone professional\u201d). Meanwhile, in Teams, Copilot provides real-time summaries and action items, like identifying people for follow-ups and creating meeting agendas, in the context of conversations.<\/p>\n

One of the more intriguing elements of Copilot is Business Chat, which brings together data from across documents, presentations, email, calendar, notes and contacts to help summarize chats, write emails, find key dates or even write a plan based on other project files. With prompts like \u201ctell my team how we updated the product strategy,\u201d Business Chat \u2014 coming first to Teams \u2014 will generate a status update based on the morning\u2019s meetings, emails and chat threads.<\/p>\n