Microsoft’s Office apps now have free Copilot Chat features

Microsoft is adding the escaped Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and agents to Office apps for each Microsoft 365 concern users today. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote are all being updated with a Copilot Chat sidebar that volition assistance draught documents, analyse spreadsheets, and much without needing an further Microsoft 365 Copilot license.

“Copilot Chat is unafraid AI chat grounded successful the web—and now, it’s disposable successful the Microsoft 365 apps,” explains Seth Patton, wide Manager of Microsoft 365 Copilot merchandise marketing. “It’s contented aware, meaning it rapidly understands what you’re moving on, tailoring answers to the record you person open. And it’s included astatine nary further outgo for Microsoft 365 users.”

While this escaped mentation of Copilot volition rewrite documents, supply summaries, and assistance make slides successful PowerPoint, the $30 per month, per idiosyncratic Microsoft 365 Copilot licence volition inactive person the champion integration successful Office apps. The Microsoft 365 Copilot licence is besides not constricted to a azygous document, and tin crushed implicit full enactment data.

“Users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence get priority access to features similar record upload and representation generation, on with the latest exertion similar GPT-5, including faster effect times and much accordant availability—even during highest usage periods,“ explains Patton.

Microsoft antecedently bundled its AI-powered Copilot features into Office apps for user Microsoft 365 plans earlier this year, but it raised the prices of subscriptions astatine the aforesaid time. Microsoft isn’t doing immoderate terms adjustments for businesses with Copilot Chat being added to Office apps. Microsoft is besides getting acceptable to bundle its sales, service, and concern Copilots into the Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription successful October, reducing the terms for immoderate businesses that trust connected Microsoft’s latest AI tools.