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What’s New in Notebooks | June 2026

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Jun 11, 2026

Today, Copilot Notebooks is rolling out to more people across your team, making shared notebook collaboration broadly accessible in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app and OneNote.

Copilot Notebooks are available to Copilot Chat users

Previously only available to Microsoft 365 Copilot users, Copilot Notebooks is now rolling out to Copilot Chat users, giving more people across the team a shared place to gather project context, work from reference sources, and turn that information into helpful mind maps and learning tools in study guide.

 

 

This gives Copilot Chat users a powerful workspace for knowledge sharing and collaboration: they can add files — including Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, Excel worksheets, and Outlook emails — into a notebook, ask questions across those sources, and understand content through mind maps and learning tools in study guide.

In mixed-licensed teams, everyone can collaborate in the same notebook1, while Microsoft 365 Copilot users can add premium sources and use premium AI capabilities, like advanced creation experiences. 

Starting today, Copilot Chat users can explore Copilot Notebooks in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app and in OneNote 2.

Availability: Rolling out to Copilot Chat commercial and education users 2 starting today.

 

Learn more about Copilot Notebooks and this change in our Support documentation. For more information for education users 2, read the Copilot Notebooks in Education blog.

 

1Copilot Chat users have limited sources per notebook, access to standard sources only, and standard access to chat.

2Only Copilot Notebooks in OneNote on web will be available to Copilot Chat (Basic) commercial customers at this time.

Review our previous blog about Copilot Notebooks

What’s New in Notebooks | May 2026 | Microsoft Community Hub

Updated Jun 11, 2026
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8 Comments

  • jhn23's avatar
    jhn23
    Copper Contributor

    Well ... I'm somehow confused in sharing and extending Copilot output. A few Montessori ago, I learned, Loop is the go-to tool for sharing and collaboration. And now? Still OneNote? Personally, I prefer OneNote as it is more flexible in regards of content, formatting, etc. Any glues which road to go down? 

  • Emora's avatar
    Emora
    Copper Contributor

     

    So, from the M365 Copilot chat, we’ll have access to notebooks, but to unlock all the Copilot Notebooks features, do we need to open them in OneNote? Also, is there any estimate on when Copilot Notebooks will be available in OneNote for Mac?

    • ntaylornc1's avatar
      ntaylornc1
      Copper Contributor

      "to unlock all the Copilot Notebooks features, do we need to open them in OneNote"
      This seems to be the case and is a step in the wrong direction for sure. I hope they address this UX problem; OneNote online doesn't even have dark mode...

    • AnalyMSFT's avatar
      AnalyMSFT
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      This announcement is about availability across different license types. Previously the Copilot notebooks functionality was only available to those with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Now Copilot Chat licensed users can also access Copilot notebooks although some sources and AI capabilities are only available for the Copilot add-on license. 
      We expect to enable Copilot Notebooks in OneNote for Mac in the future but have no date to share at this point. 

  • KamBrzezinski's avatar
    KamBrzezinski
    Brass Contributor

    Thanks for the update! So, if someone with M365 Copilot license adds premium sources including emails, or Teams chats/channels, will the regular E5 licensed user be able to take advantage of those references also?

    • AnalyMSFT's avatar
      AnalyMSFT
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      Copilot will not be able to answer with information contained in those sources for users without the Microsoft 365 Copilot add-on license. 

  • Is it possible for CoPilot to create and edit pages in a CoPilot Notebook?  Can I tell it to summarize a document and place it's findings in a new Notebook page or to update an existing Notebook page with the results?

    • AnalyMSFT's avatar
      AnalyMSFT
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      Yes! Copilot can create pages, draft content to add into those pages in the notebook and even modify content already in those pages. Try it out and if it doesn't do as you expect please submit feedback.