Features
What can Microsoft 365 Copilot actually do?
Microsoft 365 Copilot is the AI assistant that works alongside you in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams: writing drafts, suggesting formulas, building decks, summarising mail and taking meeting notes. You also get Copilot Chat, search and agents across all your apps.
Per app
What it delivers per app
Not a button manual, but where Copilot takes concrete work off your hands in every app.
Word
Drafts in seconds, rewrites in any tone and long documents summarised.
Excel
Suggest formulas, explain trends and turn data into charts and pivot tables.
PowerPoint
A whole deck from a Word document or prompt, structured with an agenda.
Outlook
Long mail threads summarised and draft replies ready before you send.
Teams
Ask questions live, meeting notes with action points and chats and channels summarised.
Loop & OneNote
Organise notes, summarise them and turn them into concrete tasks and plans.
Grounding
Web knowledge or your work data?
The core question with Copilot: where do the answers come from? Web grounding draws on public knowledge. Work grounding looks via Microsoft Graph into your own mail, documents and meetings — that is where the real value sits. With the work/web toggle you deliberately choose the source.
Web grounding
Answers based on public web knowledge via the search service — included in every M365 plan.
Work grounding (Graph)
Answers from your own mail, documents and meetings via Microsoft Graph — needs the Copilot licence.
Beyond the apps
More than a button in Office
Copilot is also a layer that works across all your apps and data.
Copilot Chat
One chat window to ask, write and analyse — with or without your work data.
Copilot Search
Search M365 and connected sources in plain language, with a source for every answer.
Agents
Specialists like Researcher and Analyst, or your own agents for recurring work.
Pages & Notebooks
A workspace where people and Copilot build text, data and sources together.
The core
Only with your work data does Copilot get truly smart.
In practice
From feature to result
A feature on its own changes nothing. It is about what you achieve with it — and that is where we advise and build alongside you.
Mail & meetings
Threads and meetings summarised — less time spent catching up, faster decisions.
Documents & data
Drafts, analyses and decks already in place before you start refining.
Finding knowledge
Ask your organisation's knowledge, with sources cited instead of endless searching.
Curious which features fit your work? Browse the use cases or compare with ChatGPT.
FAQ
Veelgestelde vragen
The most common questions about what Copilot can do and which feature needs which licence.
What can Microsoft 365 Copilot do in practice?
Copilot writes and rewrites in Word, suggests formulas and charts in Excel, builds decks in PowerPoint, summarises mail in Outlook and takes meeting notes in Teams. Plus a chat, a search function and agents that work across all your apps.
What is the difference between web grounding and work grounding?
Web grounding draws on public web knowledge and is included in every M365 plan. Work grounding uses your own mail, documents and meetings via Microsoft Graph and needs the paid Copilot licence. The difference decides whether answers are generic or genuinely about your organisation.
Does Copilot in Excel also work on formulas and data?
Yes. Copilot suggests formulas, explains them, spots trends and turns raw data into charts and pivot tables. The agent mode now also works on workbooks stored locally on your device.
Do I need a Copilot licence for every feature?
No. Copilot Chat with web knowledge is already in M365. Anything touching your own work data — Copilot inside the apps, answers about your documents and the advanced agents — needs the Copilot add-on. We advise which mix fits each role.
What exactly does Copilot do in Teams?
Copilot summarises ongoing and past meetings, pulls out decisions and action points and answers questions during the meeting. Copilot Chat now also works inside Teams chats, channels and conversations.
Can Copilot carry out tasks on its own?
Increasingly so. Beyond giving answers, agents can take work off your hands — think bundling research, analysing data or drafting a document. Which tasks are worth automating we decide together in a working session.
See what Copilot does for you?
In a demo or working session we run Copilot on familiar examples — and decide together which features deliver value.