What's New In Microsoft 365 Copilot | April 2025

Welcome to the April 2025 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.  

This month, we want to highlight announcements as part of the Copilot Wave 2 Spring release to continue making Copilot the UI for AI, transform workflows with reasoning and agents, and create a platform for AI makers. 

Copilot is the new UI for AI: Today we’re announcing updates to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app—designed to power the next era of human–agent collaboration. 

• Updates to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app
• People Skills in Microsoft 365 Copilot
• Expanded functionality for Copilot Pages
• Generate audio overviews of documents, meetings, and files with Copilot
• Prioritize an inbox with Copilot in Outlook
• Upload phone images to Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents with Microsoft 365 Copilot
• Multilingual capabilities and onscreen content analysis for Copilot in Teams
• More ways to create and improve documents with Copilot in Word
• Table creation and text analysis with Copilot in Excel
• Easier creation of presentations with Copilot in PowerPoint

Agents & Reasoning: Copilot is now your window into the world of agents, with new capabilities that lay the foundation for the next wave of computing—driven by more advanced models and reasoning agents that work alongside you. Check out our Microsoft 365 blog for more headlining Agents & Reasoning features like Researcher and Analyst agent. 

• Chat with SharePoint agents in Copilot Chat
• Streamline status reports with the Project Manager agent in Planner

Platform for AI Makers: Copilot Studio lets you easily create and customize secure, enterprise-grade agents for your unique business needs. And the Copilot Control System gives IT administrators the tools they need to manage, govern, and measure Copilot and agents across the entire organization. Explore our Microsoft 365 blog for additional ways to govern, secure, manage and measure agents.  

• Expanded availability of Copilot Academy
•  Measure adoption and track insights in Viva Insights and Microsoft 365 admin center

Updates to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app

The Microsoft 365 Copilot app is users’ starting place for AI at work, with ease of access to Copilot Pages, productivity apps and files, and features such as enterprise search, secure AI chat, agents, and content creation. Now, the first time users open the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, they will be greeted with an experience that walks them through their favorite tools, apps, files, and more. The updated Microsoft 365 Copilot app is rolling out in May.  

Users can now effortlessly interact with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat by using the Copilot key or the new keyboard shortcut of Win + C on a Windows 11 device. This opens a prompt box, enabling users to quickly chat with Copilot, upload files and images, or call an agent. For more space, users can expand to the full Microsoft 365 Copilot app. This feature is rolling out in May.  

Users will soon find a simplified experience when using the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app. OneDrive is being renamed Search, and Copilot is being renamed Chat. We’ve also added a new module called Create. These three modules are pinned to the bottom navigation in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, giving users easy access to secure AI chat, apps, and files on the go. These updates are rolling out in May.  

 

Users will soon experience a more streamlined user interface for Copilot Chat. The first time users open Copilot Chat, they will be greeted with an intuitive experience that introduces Copilot Chat capabilities. The Chat module (previously the Copilot module) offers quick access to chat history, Copilot Pages, and agents through an updated left navigation pane. Users can also easily collapse the navigation pane while they collaborate seamlessly with Copilot. These features are rolling out in May.  

 

Now users with a Copilot+ PC can ask Microsoft 365 Copilot about content on their screen using Click to Do (preview). With a Win+left click, Click to Do recognizes text and images on your screen and offers you actions you can take, such as summarize, rewrite, and even the option to Ask M365 Copilot, which shares your selected content and enables you to have Microsoft 365 Copilot act on it while staying in the flow of work. This Click to Do action is expected to roll out to the Windows Insider Program in May.

People Skills in Microsoft 365 Copilot

People Skills is a new intelligent data layer in Microsoft 365 Copilot that infers a user’s skillsets derived from user activity such as meetings, documents, chat, search, and other signals. People Skills enhances Copilot Chat with contextualized information about the people in the user’s organization, empowers employees to find and connect with others, and provides leaders with visibility into talent landscape strengths, gaps, and opportunities. 

The People Skills data layer feeds into multiple Microsoft experiences, including: 

• Microsoft 365 Copilot 
• Skills agent 
• Copilot Analytics 
• Microsoft 365 profile card + profile card editor 
• Org Explorer 
• People companion 
• Viva Learning 

The People Skills data layer is rolling out in May. Skills  agent is rolling out in June. 

Expanded functionality for Copilot Pages

Soon, users can seamlessly open their Copilot Page content in a Word document to continue formatting, reviewing, approving, or publishing it. After generating material using Copilot Chat, users can save that content in Copilot Pages and then send it to Word with the press of a button. This feature is rolling out in May. 

 

With Copilot Pages on mobile, users can view, edit and share their work while on the go. Soon, users can also create new Copilot Pages from a mobile device. This feature is rolling out in May.  

 

Copilot Pages will soon be available as a module in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for mobile, enabling users to find all their Copilot Pages in the app they already use for everyday productivity. This feature is rolling out in May. 

Generate audio overviews of documents, meetings, and files with Copilot

Soon Copilot can help users engage with their content in a new and dynamic way—through audio. They can turn documents, meetings, and files into a listening experience that brings the content to life in a podcast-style discussion between two hosts with insightful commentary, connections between topics, and lively banter. Users can choose how they want to listen by selecting one or two speakers, adjusting the style from concise to playful, and tailoring the length. This capability is integrated directly into familiar tools—OneDrive, Outlook, Teams, Word, and Copilot Notebooks—so it’s ready whenever and wherever users need it.  

In Word, users simply open the Copilot chat pane and ask Copilot to generate an audio overview. These features is rolling out in English in May. The ability to configure the format is rolling out in English in the coming months.  

 

In Teams, users navigate to the Meet app and select the ‘audio overview’ tab. They can choose the transcribed meeting or multiple meetings and select ‘Generate audio overview.’ This feature is rolling out in English in the coming months.   

 

In OneDrive, users simply select the Copilot icon for the file, and then select ‘Generate an audio overview.’ Copilot will generate a narrated summary of the file highlighting the key points. Users can choose to switch to a podcast-style discussion from the ‘…’ menu on the overview player, and Copilot will regenerate the overview in the style of a podcast discussion between two hosts. This feature is rolling out in English in May. 

 

In Outlook, users can hover over a linked file in email, and then select the ‘Generate audio overview’ option. This feature is rolling out on web in English in May. 

 

In Copilot Notebooks, users select ‘Generate audio overview’ at the top of the notebook. Copilot will generate a podcast-style discussion of the referenced files with key insights. This feature is rolling out in English in May. 

Prioritize my inbox with Copilot in Outlook

The Prioritize my inbox feature marks high priority mails in a user’s inbox and provides a short summary of the mail's importance in the message list and the reading pane. Email can be sorted and filtered by Copilot's priority. In Outlook for the Web and New Outlook for Windows, users can also choose to have Copilot mark low priority mails.​ This feature rolled out in April. 

Transform physical, visual data in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents with Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot now makes it effortless for users to bring their phone’s photos directly into your Word, Excel, or PowerPoint workspace, so they can transform visual data into actionable insights without the hassle of emailing or downloading files. To do this, users simply open a document on desktop or web, click Copilot from the Home tab, tap the + button in the Copilot prompt box, select ‘Add an image’, and select ‘Upload from phone’. A QR code appears for the user to scan with their mobile device, enabling them to quickly snap a new picture or choose an existing image from their gallery. Once uploaded, the image (like photos of handwritten notes, whiteboard sketches, or receipts) appears in the Copilot chat where the user can ask it to extract and process text, summarize information, or answer any questions they have—all while keeping their workflow seamless and efficient. This feature is rolling out in April in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Windows desktop and web.  

Multilingual capabilities and onscreen content analysis for Copilot in Teams

We’re introducing a new control for meeting organizers that enables multilingual meetings. When enabled, each meeting participant can choose their own spoken language and translation language. Meeting organizers will see a new control in meeting options called “Enable multilingual speech recognition.” The meeting transcript and intelligent meeting recap will accurately reflect each participant’s spoken language of choice. This feature rolled out to public preview in April. 

Intelligent meeting recap now supports multilingual meetings, ensuring users can easily catch up on key discussions even when multiple languages were spoken during the meeting. After the meeting, the recap is automatically generated in the translation language the user selected for live transcription and captions during the meeting. This feature rolled out to public preview in April. 

 

Copilot in Teams can now analyze content shared on screen, enabling deeper insights into the meeting and ensuring no meeting details are overlooked. Users can ask Copilot to summarize or find specific information from content shared on-screen simply by asking questions, such as “Which products had the highest sales?” This works for any content a user shares from their desktop screen, including documents, slides, spreadsheets, and websites, irrespective of platform or app. Copilot can also consolidate insights across both the conversation and whatever information is presented to answer questions such as “'What was the feedback per slide?” Additionally, users can ask Copilot to draft new content based on the entire meeting with a prompt such as “Rewrite the paragraph shared on the screen incorporating the feedback from the chat.” This feature rolled out to public preview in April. 

More ways to create and improve documents with Copilot in Word

We’re including more ways for users to reference and create documents from their work data. When drafting, users can reference an entire folder, up to 20 individual files, and documents up to about 1,500,000 words or about 3,000 pages. Referencing a folder rolled out in April for web and will be rolling out in the coming months for desktop and Mac. These features rolled out in April. 

Understanding and refining a document takes time and effort. That’s why Copilot will soon include a dynamic document snapshot that updates in real time, giving users a clear summary, key insights, activity and discussion highlights, and coaching suggestions in the top of the document. Whether users are learning, managing projects, or need a writing assistant, Copilot helps them stay focused and in control. These features are rolling out in the coming months:  

• April 2025: The Summary tab in Word for the web, Windows, and Mac, and the Insights tab in Word for the web
• May 2025: The Activity and Discussion tabs in Word for the web
• June 2025: The Coaching tab in Word for the web
• July 2025: The Insights tab for Windows and Mac, the Activity tab in Word for Windows and for Mac
• August 2025: The Discussion tab in Word for Windows and for Mac

 

Everyone has their own way of working, and sometimes users just want to speak instead of type to get a thought or idea started, especially if they’re on the go. Now users can dictate to Copilot directly in Word on mobile, and Copilot will organize their thoughts, drafting new documents and content. This feature rolled out in April for certain languages. Learn more. 

While on your mobile phone, use just your voice with Copilot to organize your thoughts and create new documents on the go.

 

Now, with one click, Copilot can fix all spelling and grammar issues from a selection, helping to polish a user’s document. This feature is rolling out in May for web. 

Copilot helps you fix all spelling and grammar from a selection of your document, helping you polish with ease.

Table creation and text analysis with Copilot in Excel

For users who don’t have time to analyze text data, Copilot can now quickly identify sentiments in text and summarize themes, providing sources for efficient validation. Copilot can then create charts or PivotTables to help users uncover deeper insights into key issues or trends from their text analysis. Additionally, Copilot now supports analyzing tens of thousands of rows, so users can save time and uncover deeper insights across larger text datasets. This feature rolled out in April. 

Copilot response with sentiment analysis, creating a Pivot chart and inserting into a new sheet.

 

For users who are not sure where to begin in Excel, now they can just tell Copilot what they want to create, and Copilot will suggest and refine a template with headers, formulas, and visuals to get them off to a great start. Users can either choose from suggested prompts or simply describe what they want, and Copilot will create a preview table. Then users can keep, regenerate, refine, or discard it with a click. This feature rolled out on Web in March. 

Easier creation of presentations with Copilot in PowerPoint

New improvements to Copilot in PowerPoint help users create, edit, and understand professional presentations with even more ease. These improvements will give users more control over the slides and content Copilot helps to create. 

 

When users are building a presentation, they will soon be able to create a new slide based on a Word doc or a prompt directly on the canvas. This makes it easy to get a great draft slide based on existing content. This feature is rolling out in May. Learn more. 

 

Soon, users working with Copilot in PowerPoint will see a new design suggestions pane, sharing the same designer-like suggestions in a new way. These suggestions include new slide starter options, so users can quickly choose their favorite designs, which will be applied as they update their content. These features rolled out in April.  

 

When creating a new presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint, users can choose a template from their organization's collection for on-brand presentations or select one from Microsoft's handpicked templates. This makes it easier to create a new presentation with the right branding in minutes. This feature is rolling out in May. 

 

Additionally, there are now more grounding-on-a-file options with the addition of PDF file types to create new presentations, rolling out in late April. Narrative builder will also pull in tables from users’ grounded content into the final presentation. This feature rolled out in April 

 

As users refine and edit text on slides, they can now use rewrite to transform a paragraph into bullets directly on the slide, helping with those final fine-tuning edits. This feature rolled out in April. 

 

Copilot can now surface an automatic summary of a PowerPoint presentation. This gives users an opportunity to grasp key ideas before diving into the details. This feature rolled out on web and desktop, and is rolling out in May for Mac. 

Chat with SharePoint agents in Copilot Chat

Finding answers and insights from SharePoint's vast data is easier than ever with SharePoint agents, which provide real-time information and insights from specific sites or content. Users can already share these agents via email or Teams by @mentioning another user in a chat. Soon, users can chat with SharePoint agents directly in Copilot Chat. This feature is rolling out in May. 

Streamline status reports with the Project Manager agent in Planner

Project Manager agent can now automate the creation of status reports, streamlining the process to generate, view, modify, and share reports based on project progress. This ensures stakeholders stay informed effortlessly with concise, accurate, and professional summaries of a project plan's progress, key milestones, and upcoming tasks, saving time while maintaining transparency and alignment across projects.  This feature became available in preview in April, and is rolling out in May. 

Measure adoption and track insights in Viva Insights and Microsoft 365 admin center

IT admins can now measure the adoption and business impact of Copilot Studio agents in Viva Insights. Understand how agents are performing and how they relate to key business metrics, including custom agents created in Copilot Studio that are published outside of Copilot. View summary and detailed metrics like number of agents created, employee sessions, satisfaction score, resolution rates and business impact. This feature became available in preview in April and is rolling out in June. The ability to upload business metrics for impact analysis will be available when the feature rolls out to general availability in June. 

 

The new AI adoption score is designed for AI admins and adoption managers to measure and drive Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption. The AI adoption score and the accompanying report provide a simple and effective way to measure Copilot adoption with peer benchmarking to compare the score with similar organizations. It includes a usage frequency distribution chart, feature-level usage insights, and enablement resources to inform and support adoption efforts. The report also includes organizational messages to promote Copilot features in the flow of work, directly within Microsoft Teams and Windows. The AI adoption score rolled out in April. Learn more about the AI adoption score.  

 

To inform Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing and adoption strategy decisions, the new Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat usage report helps AI admins and adoption managers understand Copilot Chat adoption in an organization. The report is scoped to Copilot Chat usage by users who are not assigned a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, and includes total active users, average daily active users, segmentation by apps, and user-level details. User-level details are anonymized by default, and only global admins can update the setting to show user-level activity. With this update, AI admins can view active users by additional apps, including Microsoft Teams, Outlook and the Microsoft 365 Copilot web app at copilot.cloud.microsoft. This feature rolled out in April. 

Expanded availability of Copilot Academy

Originally created for users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, Microsoft Copilot Academy was designed by experts to provide a comprehensive set of self-paced learning paths for using Microsoft 365 Copilot effectively. Now, Copilot Academy is accessible to all users with a Microsoft 365 license, and admins can select their preferred user access settings for Copilot Academy. This expansion rolled out in April.  

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.