What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot | Feb 2025

Welcome to the February 2025 edition of What's new in Microsoft 365 Copilot! Every month, we highlight new features and enhancements to keep Microsoft 365 admins up to date with Copilot features that help your users be more productive and efficient in the apps they use every day.

Let’s take a closer look at what’s new this month:

Admin and management capabilities:

• New policy for access to Copilot in Teams meetings

End-user capabilities:

• GCC availability and meeting recap options for Copilot in Teams
• Copilot Pages are now available on mobile
• Tenant grounding, prompt suggestions, and Python language expansion for Copilot in Excel
• Greater summarization and coaching in more languages with Copilot in Word
• Translation, rewriting, and speaker note drafting with Copilot in PowerPoint
• Use Copilot chat to gain insights from images

New admin policy to enable Copilot for multi-tenant organizations

Now admins can use a new admin policy in Teams admin center to enable or disable Copilot access in meetings between business-to-business (B2B) members in multitenant organizations. Teams admins can toggle the ‘Allow Copilot for B2B members’ setting in the Teams admin center or with PowerShell. This setting is turned on by default, allowing B2B members within the multitenant organization who have Copilot licenses to use Copilot when they join meetings hosted by their organization. Learn how to Manage Copilot access for B2B members within multitenant organizations (MTO) in Teams. This feature rolled out in January.

GCC availability and meeting recap options for Copilot in Teams

Copilot in Teams meetings is now available for GCC. Users can now run more effective meetings, get up to speed on conversations, organize key discussion points, and summarize key actions so participants know what they need to do next. Users can type questions or use predetermined prompts during or after the meeting, and their interactions with Copilot are only visible to them. Copilot in Teams meetings for GCC rolled out in February.

Meeting participants can now share a link to the meeting recap from the meeting thumbnail in chat and the recap tab, making it easier to reference and share the meeting recap insights with others. Meeting participants can share the meeting recap link with anyone in their organization. Users who don't have access to the recording or transcript can request recording and transcript access. This feature rolled out in February.

Intelligent recap is now available for town hall and webinar event instances, just like the intelligent recap experience users are used to in meetings. Event organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can now easily explore the meeting recording by speakers and topics, and access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. In addition to availability with a Teams Premium license, intelligent event recap features are available with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. This feature rolled out in February.

Copilot Pages are now available on mobile

Copilot Pages are now available in the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app, so users can continue working with Copilot and colleagues while on the go. Users can view, edit, and share existing Pages on mobile now, and soon they will be able to create new Pages on mobile as well. This feature rolled out in February.

Tenant grounding, prompt suggestions, and Python language expansion for Copilot in Excel

Copilot in Excel with Python extends Excel's functionality to a more powerful tool for data analysis, automation, visualization, and machine learning. Now, users can use their everyday language to ask Copilot to perform advanced analytics, and Copilot will write Python code and insert it on the grid, resulting in deeper insights and stunning visuals. These newly supported languages include English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish and rolled out in February on Excel for Windows.

Copilot in Excel now includes graph-grounded chat. Users can ask Copilot in Excel for answers based on content beyond the active Excel workbook, and Copilot will answer with information grounded in their organization, which includes chats, documents, meetings, and emails. If a user is analyzing a workbook and wants to enhance understanding using information from another source in the tenant, they can simply ask Copilot in Excel. This feature rolled out in February.

Users can now open Copilot in an Excel workbook and see a rotating selection of suggested prompts. These prompts will help users do more with their data by generating formula column suggestions, showing insights in charts and PivotTables, and highlighting interesting data. Using these prompts can help refine workflows to maximize efficiency. This feature rolled out in February.

Greater summarization and coaching in more languages with Copilot in Word

Copilot can now summarize documents up to about 1,500,000 words (about 3,000 pages), in the summary box above your document content. This is a significant increase from the previous limit of 80,000 words (about 160 pages). This feature rolled out on the web in February and will roll out on Windows and Mac in the coming months.

Coaching with Copilot supports reviewing content beyond grammar and spelling by giving suggestions to clarify ideas and improve impact through additions, organization, style and tone, supporting information, and more. To get coaching, users can now choose a section of text (or even the entire document), select the Copilot icon on the canvas, then select “Get coaching.” Learn more about Copilot coaching in Word. This feature started rolling out in February and is available for the following languages: English (United States), English (United Kingdom), French (France), German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Mexico), Chinese (Simplified).

Translating, rewriting, and speaker note drafting with Copilot in PowerPoint

Translation can be time-consuming and costly, even for a quick presentation for internal training or team meetings. With Copilot translation in PowerPoint, users can translate an entire PowerPoint into one of 40 languages, maintaining the design integrity of each slide. Languages include those currently supported by Copilot, with the small nuance of non-location specific English and Spanish. Copilot can translate the text in text boxes, shapes, tables, charts, speaker notes, comments, and smart-art. This feature rolled out in January. Learn more here.

Copilot in PowerPoint can now help users quickly improve text on slides. They can rewrite, condense, and make text more professional. Copilot can also fix grammar and spelling errors and improve readability without changing the meaning. This feature rolled out in February.  

After typing a prompt and seeing the narrative’s outline, users can add topics that include a Word doc (including encrypted Word docs). This helps users fine-tune a story, by using Copilot to create a first-draft deck with relevant topics and information. This feature rolled out in January.  

Creating speaker notes for PowerPoint presentations can be a daunting and time-consuming task, especially for long presentations. Users can now add speaker notes using Copilot. Copilot will automatically generate notes for all slides, providing a solid first draft for presentation notes that users can refine as needed. This saves time and effort, helps ensure consistency across the presentations, and makes it easier to deliver a polished, professional presentation. This feature rolled out in February. 

Use Copilot chat to gain insights from images

Users can now chat with Copilot to easily gain insights from uploaded images. Whether using the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, Teams, Outlook, or the Edge sidebar, Copilot helps users understand and iterate on uploaded content. This feature rolled out in February.

Did you know? The Microsoft 365 Roadmap is where you can get the latest updates on productivity apps and intelligent cloud services. Please note that the dates mentioned in this article are tentative and subject to change. Check back regularly to see what features are in development or coming soon.