Word/Excel/PPT era, come!

The other day,Microsoft has officially announced the Microsoft 365 Copilot, a "smart co-driver." Think of it as ChatGPT for Office。

Microsoft Copilot combines the power of large language models (LLMS) with business data and Microsoft 365 apps to help users unleash creativity, unlock productivity and upgrade a variety of skills.

For example,You can chat and let Copilot polish Word documents, create Excel spreadsheets, quickly generate powerpoint slides, or even write a weekly work report。

In short,Microsoft 365 Copilot offers a new way of working that helps you do your job better in two ways:

1. Copilot will be built into Microsoft 365 apps that users use every day, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, etc.

2. Microsoft also announced a new feature, Business Chat.

Business Chat will be applied to large language models, Microsoft 365 applications, and users' calendars, email, chat, documents, meetings, and contacts to do things that users could not do before.

For example,Users can ask "Tell my team how we're going to update our product strategy" in natural language, and Business Chat can generate a progress update report based on morning meetings, emails, and related chats。

Microsoft says that with Microsoft 365 Copilot support, users can decide what to keep and what to change or discard. With these new tools, people will have more freedom to be creative in Word, more analytical in Excel, more expressive in PowerPoint, more productive in Outlook, and better collaboration in Teams.

"Microsoft 365 Copilot combines large language model capabilities with your data and applications to turn your language into a powerful productivity tool," said Jared Spataro, Microsoft Worldwide Vice President, Microsoft 365 Global Division. It marks a whole new era of computing and will fundamentally transform the way we work."

Here's how Microsoft 365 Copilot works:

Copilot in Word：Be able to write, edit, summarize and create with people as they work.

Copilot in PowerPoint：The ability to turn ideas into designed presentations through natural language commands during the creative process.

Copilot in Excel：Can help users unlock insights, identify trends, or create professional-style data visualizations in a short time.

Copilot in Outlook：Helps users consolidate and manage their inboxes, thus saving more time for actual communication.

Copilot in Teams：Improves meeting efficiency by providing real-time summaries and to-do items directly from the context of the conversation.

Copilot in Power Platform：By introducing two new features in Power Apps and Power Virtual Agents, developers of all skill levels will be able to leverage low-code tools to speed up and simplify development.

Business Chat：It aggregates data from documents, presentations, emails, calendars, notes, and contacts to help users summarize chats, compose emails, find key dates, and even make plans based on other project documents.

At present,Microsoft is testing the Microsoft 365 Copilot with some business customers.A version for individual users is not far off.