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Copilot in Microsoft 365
Copilot in Microsoft 365 is Microsoft Copilot working with your organisation’s data. Microsoft Learn says its experiences use large language models and grounding in web and work data, with access scoped by user permissions.
What Copilot in Microsoft 365 does
- Uses large language models for understanding and generating natural language.
- Grounds answers in web data and, depending on your licence, in organisational data through Microsoft Graph and Work IQ.
- Limits access by user permissions, with security and compliance enforced.
- Offers Copilot Chat on web data only, and Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote with a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence.
What people use it for
Prioritise your inbox
Microsoft’s channel shows Copilot in Outlook helping you fight email overload.
Understand a spreadsheet
Ask Copilot in Excel to analyse and visualise data.
Draft in your apps
Use Copilot inside Word, PowerPoint and Outlook for first drafts you then edit.
Who it suits
- Organisations on Microsoft 365 that want AI grounded in their own work data.
- Admins who manage licences and what each experience can access.
Plans and access
Microsoft Learn says Copilot responses and experiences differ by data grounding, integration depth and licensing, and that availability varies by region. Check which licence you have, read Microsoft’s current terms and ask your admin what is turned on.
How to start
- 1Read Microsoft’s Copilot overview to see how licences differ. Open
- 2Find out which Copilot licence you have.
- 3Try one task in Outlook or Excel and check the result against the source.
- 4Ask your admin how your data is accessed and who can see Copilot’s output.
Watch and learn
Videos from Microsoft’s own channel, so you can learn it here. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play. More on the Microsoft Copilot channel.
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5 Ways to Use Copilot in Outlook | Microsoft 365
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How Copilot can directly edit and update your Excel spreadsheet
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Common questions about Copilot in Microsoft 365
- What is Copilot in Microsoft 365?
- It is Microsoft Copilot in the Microsoft 365 apps and Copilot Chat, powered by language models and grounded in web and organisational data.
- What data can it see?
- Microsoft says access is scoped by user permissions, and some licences use work data through Microsoft Graph and Work IQ while others use web data only.
- Do all licences include the same features?
- No. Microsoft lists Copilot Chat, Microsoft 365 Copilot Basic and Premium licences with different access.
- Is it available everywhere?
- Microsoft says it is available in many regions worldwide but might not be accessible in certain markets.
Where this comes from
Written from the maker’s own pages, read on 2026-10-13. Plans, limits and features change, so the page you land on is the source.
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