Welcome to the March 2026 edition of What's new in Microsoft 365 Copilot! Every month, we highlight new features and enhancements to keep Microsoft 365 admins up to date with Copilot features that help your users be more productive and efficient in the apps they use every day.
Let’s take a closer look at what’s new this month:
User capabilities:
- Video recap of meetings in Copilot Chat
- Researcher, app branding, and Notebooks improvements for Microsoft 365 Copilot app
- AI in SharePoint
- Audio recap in more languages for Copilot in Teams
- Work IQ context and editing local workbooks with Copilot in Excel
- Citations display for Copilot in Word
- Standardize format with Copilot in PowerPoint
Copilot controls:
- Safeguard web searches and prompts with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
- Manage authoritative sources, high-usage users, and domain exclusion in Microsoft 365 admin center
- Tracking satisfaction, intent, and usage with Copilot Dashboard
- Copilot Tuning templates in Agent Builder
User capabilities
Video recap of meetings in Copilot Chat
When users ask Copilot Chat to summarize a meeting, they’ll now get a video recap alongside the written recap. Video recap transforms the meeting summary into a narrated highlight reel, combining key takeaways with short, relevant clips that bring important moments to life. Users can quickly catch up and see curated segments from the discussion without sifting through a full recording. Video recap is available in Copilot Chat and Microsoft Clipchamp web player for meetings that are at least 10 minutes long with recording enabled. Video recap will launch initially in English only. This feature is rolling out in March.
Researcher, app branding, and Notebooks improvements for Microsoft 365 Copilot app
Researcher in Microsoft 365 Copilot introduces new output formats that let users generate polished reports in their preferred formats. Users can convert Researcher reports to PowerPoint, a PDF, an infographic, or an audio overview, adapting insights to every audience in one click, without redoing the work. This feature rolled out in March.
Admins can now add a branded footer to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for their organization. This footer appears at the bottom of the Copilot Chat screen in the app and helps build trust that they are using an approved, organization-managed AI tool. The footer can be configured for users in the Microsoft 365 admin center. This feature rolled out in March.
Copilot Notebooks features a new, revamped user experience that makes navigating and working in Notebooks more intuitive. The updates bring references, content in Copilot Pages, and Copilot chats into one seamless, side-by-side view. Other updates include richer reference sets, a new Overview page, faster artifact creation with Copilot, and easier sharing with teammates. This feature rolled out in February.
Audio recap in more languages for Copilot in Teams
Audio recap is now available in seven additional languages, so global teams can easily catch up on meetings in the language that works best for them. In addition to English, users can now generate and listen to AI-powered audio summaries in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. Whether users are commuting, multitasking, or just have a preference for listening over reading, audio recap delivers the key discussion points, decisions, and action items from one or multiple meetings—now in more languages. This feature rolled out in March.
AI in SharePoint
What was introduced as Knowledge Agent in September 2025 is now refreshed and rebranded with new capabilities as AI in SharePoint. AI in SharePoint brings agentic building and content intelligence directly into SharePoint. Teams can plan and build sites, libraries, pages, and lists using natural language. Rather than requiring technical expertise, this capability makes work in SharePoint more accessible by enabling users to describe what they want to build in plain language. AI in SharePoint rolled out to Public Preview in March and is rolling out worldwide in May.
In addition to the new planning and building experiences, AI in SharePoint automatically extracts and applies metadata, adapts libraries as content changes, and helps ensure information is structured to support accurate Copilot and agent experiences across Microsoft 365. The preview is powered by Anthropic’s Claude model. These features rolled out to Public Preview in March and are rolling out worldwide in May.
Work IQ context and editing local workbooks with Copilot in Excel
When users are editing with Copilot in Excel, Work IQ automatically brings in the most relevant context—from emails, meetings, chats, files—without requiring users to manually reference them. This helps Copilot make more accurate, multi‑step edits that reflect the latest context about users, their work, and their relationships. This feature rolled out in March.
Copilot can now make multi-step edits to modern Excel workbooks stored locally on devices across Windows and Mac platforms. This gives users the flexibility to work with Copilot no matter where their files are located, eliminating the requirement to store files in the cloud. This feature rolled out in March.
Citations display for Copilot in Word
Now when users are editing with Copilot in Word, citations are automatically displayed whenever responses incorporate information from web content or Work IQ sources. This helps users easily verify and track the origins of content, improving transparency and confidence in the document’s accuracy, and ensuring reliable referencing for all edits with Copilot. This feature rolled out in March.
Standardize format with Copilot in PowerPoint
By enabling ‘Edit with Copilot’ in PowerPoint, users can quickly standardize a presentation’s appearance by automatically updating fonts, font sizes, and bullet styles across all slides at once, eliminating the need for tedious, manual adjustments. This streamlines the formatting process, ensuring a polished and consistent look throughout the presentation, so users can focus more on their content and message, confident that their slides maintain a professional and cohesive design. This feature rolled out on Web in March, and is rolling out on Windows and Mac soon.
Copilot controls
Safeguard web searches and prompts with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat is expanding to safeguard web searches containing sensitive data. This real-time control helps organizations mitigate data leakage and oversharing risks by preventing users from using sensitive information in Copilot prompts for web search, while allowing the response to be grounded in internal data sources. This feature rolled out to Public Preview in March and is rolling out worldwide in June.
Microsoft Purview DLP is further expanding to safeguard prompts, helping organizations prevent sensitive information from being used in Copilot prompts. Admins can define policies that detect and restrict Copilot from responding to prompts, connecting to internal data sources, and performing web searches, if the prompt contains sensitive data such as financial data, national IDs, bank numbers, or custom SITs. This feature is rolling out in March.
Manage authoritative sources, high-usage users, and domain exclusion in Microsoft 365 admin center
Admins can now manage authoritative sources within the Copilot Search experience in the Microsoft 365 admin center. This capability enables admins to designate SharePoint Online sites as authoritative content for their organization, helping enhance relevance and ranking of these sites in Copilot search results. This feature is rolling out in April.
High‑usage users is a new category that helps IT and finance teams quickly identify individuals driving high consumption across Copilot usage‑based services (i.e. pay-as-you-go services). By surfacing high‑usage patterns in one place, admins gain early visibility into potential cost drivers, enabling faster investigation and informed license optimization decisions. This insight helps organizations better manage spend, improve license allocation, and ensure usage aligns with business value, without slowing down AI adoption and business process innovation. This feature rolled out in March.
Domain exclusion for web grounding lets admins specify a limited set of sites to exclude from web grounding in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat, giving IT teams control over which external web sources Copilot can reference when generating responses, supporting compliance and content governance requirements.
This feature is rolling out in April.
Tracking satisfaction, intent, and usage with Copilot Dashboard
Analysts can now track user satisfaction of Microsoft 365 Copilot at scale. In the Copilot Dashboard, analysts can understand how users perceive Copilot value by analyzing the breakdown of thumbs up and thumbs down for Copilot responses, as well as see trends over time and breakdowns by group. This feature rolled out in March.
Admins can now use new metrics to better understand common user intents and usage patterns for Copilot across Microsoft 365 apps in the Copilot Dashboard and Advanced Analysis in Viva Insights. Using these metrics, admins can track Copilot tasks in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, Edge, and OneNote, and analyze key intent-based scenarios in Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint—including suggested reply, translate, coach, and clean data. This feature is rolling out in April.
Copilot Tuning templates in Agent Builder
Copilot Tuning introduces new templates in Agent Builder designed for tasks such as drafting complex documents, validating documents against guidelines, and editing to match a distinct writing style. Users with Copilot Tuning enabled can further customize the template-based agents by tuning the context, tools, and underlying models with their organization's proprietary data, processes, and standards, empowering teams with customized agents aligned to how the organization works. This feature will be available to enterprises with at least 5,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses, will roll out to Frontier in April, and will roll out worldwide in June.
Did you know? The Microsoft 365 Roadmap is where you can get the latest updates on productivity apps and intelligent cloud services. Microsoft 365 Copilot release notes is where you can see the Microsoft 365 Copilot features that are generally available (Current Channel for Microsoft 365 apps) and specific to each platform. Check back regularly to see what features are in development, coming soon and generally available. Please note that the dates mentioned in this article are tentative and subject to change.
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