Welcome to the fifth installment of our Copilot series! After exploring the innovations in Copilot Chat, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, we're now focusing on the updates to Microsoft Teams and Outlook.
To read our past installments of this series, click the links below:
- Part 1: Copilot Chat Updates: 6 New Features That Matter
- Part 2: PowerPoint Transformed: Latest Copilot Features That Streamline Presentation Creation
- Part 3: Word Updates: From Blank Page to Polished Documents in Minutes
- Part 4: Copilot in Excel: New Capabilities
Schedule Meetings with Unprecedented Ease
Schedule meetings from your inbox: With the new Outlook for Windows and the web, Copilot can pull the main points from an email conversation and help you set up a meeting instantly.
Spend less time scheduling: Identify optimal slots in seconds by asking Copilot to find the best time for a 1:1 or focus session.
These features allow you to focus on the actual work rather than administrative tasks.
Craft Communications That Make an Impact
Create your perfect message: Use Copilot to rewrite portions of your email to achieve the tone, length, and style that you want.
Whether you need to make your message more concise, more formal, or more persuasive, Copilot can help transform your draft into exactly the communication you need. This capability ensures your messages achieve their intended effect without requiring extensive manual editing.
Personalize Your Experience
Personalize Outlook with Copilot-generated themes: Give your inbox a fresh, unique look with themes designed by Microsoft Copilot. Go to Settings > Appearance > Themes by Copilot. Select from beautifully designed themes to match your personality or mood.
This feature allows you to customize your Outlook environment with AI-generated themes that reflect your personal style. Rather than using standard templates, you can now enjoy unique visual designs created by Copilot to match a variety of styles and moods.
Optimize Your Workspace
Book smarter with Microsoft Places: Get AI-powered insights for booking rooms and managing office spaces in Teams and Outlook.
This integration helps you make better decisions about physical workspace usage, particularly valuable in hybrid work environments. Copilot can help identify appropriate meeting spaces based on available data, making office coordination more efficient.
Enhance Team Collaboration
Sharing Copilot prompts in Teams? There's an app for that! Use the new Microsoft Prompts app in Teams to discover and share your best prompts with your coworkers.
Get the app: Select Apps from the Teams toolbar and type prompts. Select the Microsoft Prompts app, and select Add.
This feature allows your entire team to benefit from effective Copilot prompts that colleagues have developed. Instead of everyone reinventing the wheel, team members can leverage proven prompts that deliver results.
Capture Every Valuable Insight
Maximize meeting insights with integrated chat summaries: Copilot in Teams now combines meeting transcripts with chat, ensuring no valuable input is missed. This feature is perfect for large meetings.
This integration acknowledges that important information is shared in multiple channels during meetings. By combining spoken dialogue with chat conversations, Copilot ensures that you get the complete picture.
Work Smarter, Not Harder
These updates to Teams and Outlook significantly reduce the time spent on communication management and meeting coordination. By providing intelligent assistance throughout your communication workflows, Copilot enables you to focus on meaningful exchanges rather than administrative tasks.
In our final installment, we'll explore how Copilot Agents bring specialized AI assistance to specific workflows and tasks.
If you're interested in learning more about implementing these Copilot features across your organization, reach out to our Managed Services team today!
Learn more about Microsoft Copilot here.
