Top 5 New Features and Changes in Microsoft Copilot

Copilot Subscription Changes

• 💡 The previous Copilot Pro subscription is no longer available; upgraded Copilot features are now integrated into Microsoft 365 subscriptions for individuals and businesses.
• 🎯 Business and enterprise users have baseline Copilot features included, with an option for an upgraded subscription.

Temporary Chats in Copilot

• 💬 A new Temporary Chat option is available for business and enterprise accounts, allowing requests that are not saved in chat history.
• ⚠️ This is not a privacy feature, as administrators may still retain information about Copilot requests.
• 🧼 Temporary chats are useful for keeping chat history clean and organized.

Copilot in Productivity Apps

• 🚀 For individual users, Copilot features within Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are now included with their Microsoft 365 account.
• ⚠️ Business and enterprise users can access the Copilot panel in these apps with a baseline Microsoft 365 account, but advanced features outside the panel (like text rewriting in Word or presentation generation in PowerPoint) still require the upgraded subscription.

Copilot App Skills in Excel

• 🛠️ Copilot App Skills allow Copilot to make direct changes to spreadsheets, available for individual users and requiring the upgraded Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription for business/enterprise users.
• ✅ Users can ask Copilot to modify spreadsheets, such as highlighting cells or creating pivot tables, after approving the suggested changes.

Agent Mode in Excel

• 🧠 Agent Mode in Excel is a powerful, non-preview feature available in all Microsoft 365 subscriptions, requiring files to be stored on OneDrive or cloud storage with autosave enabled.
• 📈 This mode can perform research, make independent decisions, and create new workbooks, spreadsheets, charts, and graphs based on user requests and internet data.
• 🔍 It can also analyze existing data to help achieve goals, find insights, and create dashboards, but users should carefully review responses for potential projections or placeholders.