Microsoft is enhancing its Copilot application on Windows to enable document creation from chat sessions and integration with Gmail and Outlook accounts. This revamped Copilot app is first being released to Windows Insiders before it becomes available to all Windows 11 users.
With the new features, Copilot on Windows can now generate Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and PDFs directly from the chat interface. Microsoft’s Copilot team highlights, “With a simple prompt, turn your ideas, notes, and data into shareable and editable documents without any additional tools.” Further, for answers exceeding 600 characters, Copilot includes a built-in export option to send text straight to Word, PowerPoint, Excel, or PDF.
Additionally, users can link Copilot to Outlook or Gmail, enabling the AI assistant to access content from these online accounts. This means you can ask Copilot to search for all invoices from a specific company in your inbox or retrieve a contact’s email address.
This integration is optional, requiring users to explicitly connect their Outlook or Google accounts within the app’s connectors section. Supported connections include OneDrive, Outlook, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts, similar to the Google Drive and Dropbox linkage introduced in ChatGPT earlier this year.
The updated Copilot app for Windows comes just before the release of an updated OneDrive app, which Microsoft plans to launch next year. The new OneDrive app will feature a gallery view, AI-driven slideshows, and editing tools.
