Copilot Notebooks are AI-powered workspaces for a project or topic built on your reference materials—bringing together your work context behind a project in one place for you, your team members, and Copilot to collaborate on. Whether you need a mind map to better understand a complex concept or a stakeholder-ready presentation, these new features offer fresh opportunities to support creation, collaboration, and learning.
Now available in the Frontier program, these features enhance the way you work in Notebooks for a collaborative and powerful experience.
Take a closer look at what’s coming to Frontier.
Create documents and presentations from your notebook
Copilot Notebooks now also becomes a reference source and workspace for chat-first artifact creation, letting you move easily from collaboration into app native work. Create documents and presentations directly from your notebook with Word and PowerPoint agents that use references already in your workspace.
Use quick create to access artifact creation
Without switching context between tools, Copilot can create Word documents with the Word agent. Quickly generate documents like reports, summaries, and proposals straight from your notebook content and references so you can leverage your notebook into high quality documents. Specify what you need in your prompt, and customize document type, main topic, audience and themes to create a first draft that fits your purpose and audience. As a native Word file, you can then polish your document into a final draft in Word.
Create a PowerPoint deck for audiences, team, or executive meetings with the PowerPoint agent. Copilot can pull from notes, references, and structure already in your notebook to help draft slides that are consistent, ready to refine, and preloaded with visuals. Choose the primary focus, level of detail, slide deck length, and design theme and PowerPoint agent can create a presentation for your unique request. The PowerPoint agent creates a fully editable PowerPoint file as its output, so you can refine your presentation further in PowerPoint as you wish.
Share Notebooks More Easily
Copilot Notebooks isn’t just a space for you and Copilot to collaborate, team members can join your notebook as well. Copilot makes it easy for teams to collaborate in real-time and share knowledge in one place. Instead of adding each person individually, it is now simpler to collaborate with larger teams by sharing directly to existing Microsoft 365 Groups in your company. Notebooks can be shared with the group all at once, and as people come and go from the group, access will be automatically updated accordingly.
Share Copilot Notebooks with individuals and groupsBring whole SharePoint folders and OneNote notebooks as references
Add references to your notebook, now including SharePoint Sites and folders
Your notebook can draw from the files you already use every day—Word documents, PowerPoint decks, Excel spreadsheets, OneNote pages, PDFs, and Copilot Pages. And we’re continuing to expand the list of supported references, so it’s easier to bring the right context—and your team’s shared knowledge—into one place.
In addition to being able to bring individual OneNote pages as references, you can now bring a whole OneNote notebook for Copilot to leverage. You can also go beyond individual files and point your notebook to SharePoint sites and folders, giving Copilot the ability to reason across your team’s documents and enable it to generate smarter answers, insights, and content. Instead of manually adding references one by one or creating a copy of your file to upload, link to a SharePoint site page or an entire SharePoint folder directly in your notebook. Copilot respects existing Microsoft 365 permissions while tapping into shared knowledge, historical context, and supporting files. As the content evolves in SharePoint, your notebook stays in sync automatically, so Copilot will work with the latest, most relevant context as your project progresses.
Understand your content in new ways
Copilot Notebooks can help you leverage AI to quickly build an understanding of the content in the notebook in different ways. In addition to asking Copilot questions about your notebook like "flag key action items or decisions that need attention" and generating an audio overview for a podcast-style summary to listen to, now there are new ways to interact with your notebook for deeper understanding.
Explore your notebook’s content and see how key themes, concepts, or topics connect visually through an interactive mind map. Copilot can generate a map of key topics and relationships from your notebook, helping you understand how information fits together at a glance. See connections, view quick summaries of individual nodes, and ask Copilot to help explain a concept further. Mind maps help you make sense of your complex work.
New learning tools in study guide help you learn faster from your notebook. Start with a summary, explore deep-dive topic pages, and test your knowledge with flashcards and quizzes. Whether you’re preparing for a meeting, onboarding on a new project, or learning unfamiliar material, Notebooks can help you get up to speed and build your expertise.
Use Study guide to quickly create summaries, topic pages, flashcards and more
Explore the new features
Together, these updates make Copilot Notebooks a more powerful workspace for your personal knowledge and team collaboration. Add references to a notebook like Word documents, PowerPoint decks, Excel spreadsheets, OneNote pages, PDFs, Copilot Pages, and now SharePoint content, explore your notes with the overview page, audio overview, mind maps and learning tools, generate Word documents and PowerPoint presentations, and share notebooks with your team and groups.
These features are now available to users in the Frontier program—learn more about Frontier at https://aka.ms/frontier
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