📊 **Excel 中的 Python 集成和 Copilot 支持**：微软将 Python 支持与 Copilot 相结合，让 Excel 用户能够轻松地对电子表格数据进行高级分析。现在，任何人都可以使用 Copilot 进行高级分析，例如预测、风险分析、机器学习和可视化复杂数据——所有这些都使用自然语言，无需编码。Copilot 在 Excel 中还增加了对 XLOOKUP 和 SUMIF、条件格式以及 AI 助手生成更多图表和数据透视表的支持。

📲 **PowerPoint 中的 Copilot 改进**：PowerPoint 中的 Copilot 拥有改进的叙事构建器，旨在让你快速创建幻灯片演示文稿的初稿。AI 助手甚至很快就会使用公司的品牌模板来创建草稿或从 SharePoint 库中创建公司批准的图像。

📧 **Outlook 中的 Copilot 改进**：Copilot 在 Outlook 收件箱中的功能越来越强大。一个新的“优先处理我的收件箱”功能让 Copilot 可以自动优先处理电子邮件。今年晚些时候，你还可以“教 Copilot 了解对你重要的特定主题、关键字或人物”。这些电子邮件将在你的收件箱中标记为高优先级。

📝 **Word 和 OneDrive 中的 Copilot 改进**：本月晚些时候，微软还将改进 Word 中的 Copilot，让你可以参考来自电子邮件和会议的数据，以及来自文档的数据。这将更轻松地将附件从电子邮件或会议中的全部要点导入。微软还将在本月晚些时候推出 OneDrive 中的 Copilot，使你能够轻松总结和比较多达五个文件，以发现它们之间的差异。

📡 **Copilot 的商业用途**：微软对 Office 中的 Copilot 的改进旨在让 AI 助手对企业更具吸引力，以及一个新的 Copilot Pages 功能和 AI 代理，这些代理将自动执行某些任务。最近的报道表明，由于错误和不愿意支付每用户 30 美元的费用，微软面向企业的付费版 Copilot 并没有受到热烈欢迎。微软表示，财富 500 强企业中有 60% 现在使用 Copilot，并且在工作中每天使用 Copilot 的人数“环比几乎翻了一番”。这两个数据点似乎都包括免费版的 Copilot。微软已经赢得了 Microsoft 365 Copilot 的一个大客户：沃达丰在试用 AI 助手并看到早期效益后，正在为其 100,000 名员工签署 68,000 个 Microsoft 365 Copilot 许可证。

Microsoft is unveiling new features in its $30 per user Microsoft 365 Copilot monthly subscriptions that are designed to improve AI integration inside of Office apps. Excel is getting Python integration inside of Copilot, PowerPoint has an improved AI-powered narrative builder, Word is getting better at AI-assisted drafts, and Copilot will be able to help you organize your Outlook inbox, too.

After bringing Python to Excel last year, Microsoft is now combining its Python support with Copilot to let Excel users easily perform advanced analysis on spreadsheet data. “Now, anyone can work with Copilot to conduct advanced analysis like forecasting, risk analysis, machine learning, and visualizing complex data — all using natural language, no coding required,” says Jared Spataro, corporate vice president of AI at work at Microsoft. “It’s like adding a skilled data analyst to the team.”

The Copilot and Python integration inside of Excel enters public preview today, just as Microsoft makes Copilot in Excel generally available to its Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers. Microsoft has also added Copilot support for XLOOKUP and SUMIF, conditional formatting, and the ability for the AI assistant to produce more charts and PivotTables.

Copilot in PowerPoint is also getting improvements, with an improved narrative builder that’s designed to let you quickly create a first draft of a slide deck. The AI assistant will even soon use a company’s branded template to create drafts or company-approved images from SharePoint libraries.

Copilot in Microsoft Teams will summarize conversations that happened in the text chat as well as spoken ones in meetings later this month. This will help meeting organizers make sure they didn’t miss any unanswered questions that were typed into the chat. “Our customers tell us Copilot in Teams has changed meetings forever — in fact, it’s the number one place they’re seeing value,” says Spataro.

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I’ve personally been waiting for improvements to Copilot in Outlook beyond drafting and summaries, and now Microsoft is starting to allow its AI assistant to organize your inbox. A new “prioritize my inbox” feature lets Copilot automatically prioritize emails. Later this year, you’ll also be able to “teach Copilot the specific topics, keywords, or people that are important to you,” according to Spataro. These emails will then also be marked as high priority in your inbox.

Later this month, Microsoft is also improving Copilot in Word to let you reference data from emails and meetings, alongside data from documents. This will make it easier to bring in attachments from emails or entire talking points from meetings. Microsoft is also rolling out Copilot in OneDrive later this month, making it easy to summarize and compare up to five files to spot differences between them.

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Microsoft’s improvements to Copilot in Office are designed to make the AI assistant more enticing to businesses, alongside a new Copilot Pages feature and AI agents that will automate certain tasks. Recent reports have suggested there has been a lukewarm reception to Microsoft’s paid Copilot version for businesses, due to bugs and a reluctance to pay the $30 per user price.

Microsoft says 60 percent of the Fortune 500 now use Copilot and that the number of people who use Copilot daily at work “nearly doubled quarter-over-quarter.” Both of these data points appear to include the free version of Copilot. Microsoft has won over a big customer for Microsoft 365 Copilot: Vodafone is signing up for 68,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses for its 100,000 employees, after trialing the AI assistant and seeing early benefits.