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Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 is here with a wealth of new features, including Pages, Agents, and a new narrative builder for PowerPoint that creates presentations from scratch.
Here’s a look at some of the biggest updates and features coming in Copilot Wave 2.
Copilot Pages for Collaborative Documents
Pages lets you collate all the information Microsoft 365 holds about you and your business with information that it finds on the web, pulling it all into collaborative documents, or “Pages.”
For example, if you ask Copilot about something online, then click “Edit in Pages,” it will move its response to a new Copilot Page. This document can be added to and shared with colleagues for collaboration.
You can choose between the Web or Work tabs, depending on how you want to use Pages. For example, the Work tab allows Copilot to pull across information from your work documents. You could ask it to compile a report similar to last year’s one, but using the most relevant data.
Copilot AI Agents Automate Business Processes
One new feature that should help business productivity is Copilot Agents, AI assistants designed to automate and execute business processes. They can be created for a site, folder, or library. You can even @mention them in Teams chat and speak with them as you would any other member of staff.
Agents can help with everything from sales to customer service, and you can publish them to Microsoft 365 Copilot so they can draw from your data across Microsoft apps, helping Copilot to learn more about your business and how it works.
You can even equip agents with handy skills like creating support tickets or sending emails, or customize them in the Copilot studio, adding more advanced capabilities like autonomy. Plus,it’s now easier for team members of any skill level to build Copilot agents in BizChat and SharePoint.
You’ll find Copilot agents in a new store in Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat, Teams, and the Microsoft 365 app, rolling out to all customers starting in October.
PowerPoint’s New Narrative Builder Creates Your Presentations
It’s easier to craft a story for PowerPoint presentations with the new narrative builder, which creates a deck of slides from a simple Copilot prompt, adding speaker notes and transitions.
To get started, type, “Create a presentation about……” and you’ll be provided with an outline that you can edit, add new sections to, and reorder until you’re happy. Then click “Generate Slide” to magic up the presentation.
The feature can even access DALL-E 3 to generate images for your presentation or use images already in your library.
Copilot for Excel, Word, and Outlook
Though Copilot has been available for a while now across Office applications, Microsoft has added more functionality.
Up until now, Copilot in Excel was in beta, but it’s now generally available. Combining Copilot with Excel and Python makes it easier to carry out tasks such as analyzing risk, forecasting, and more – tasks that you’d normally need extensive knowledge of Python to do. All this can be achieved with no coding skills necessary.
In Outlook, you can use the “Prioritize my Inbox” feature to extract your most urgent emails and summarize them, saving you time on busy days. You’ll be able to highlight specific keywords, individuals, or subjects that are important to customize the feature to your needs and automatically prioritize these emails in future. This feature won’t be in public preview until later this year, though.
In Word, there will be new suggested prompts making it easier to get started with your documents. Copilot is also generally available in Teams starting later this month, where it can analyze group chat in its answers.
Finally, Copilot in OneDrive will let you compare and summarize your files, providing useful insights you may not have considered.
Copilot Wave 2 Features Rolling Out From Today
The Copilot chat interface will be re-titled “Business Chat” and this alongside the Pages feature will roll out to Microsoft 365 Copilot customers now, though Microsoft says that Pages “will be generally available later this month.”
Pages is also coming to the free version of Copilot in the next few weeks, but only for users signed in through a Microsoft Entra account.
Other new features will begin appearing in public previews later in September.
