Microsoft Copilot
Copilot Chat: How to Toggle Between Work IQ and the Work and Web View
Licensed Copilot Chat now has a toggle to switch between the new Work IQ look and the classic Work and Web view. Here is where it lives and how it works.
Microsoft Excel
Excel Formula Completion with IF Functions: Commissions, Grades, and Copilot
I test Excel Formula Completion on real IF functions - a commission formula with absolute references and a nested IF for letter grades. Here's how Copilot did.
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot Updates: Smart Suggestions, Docking, and Shortcut in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
New Microsoft 365 Copilot updates in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint: smart suggestions on hover, docking the button to the far right, the Alt+C shortcut, and the upcoming Dock to the Ribbon option.
Microsoft Excel
Excel COPILOT Function: Advanced Prompts with Real Examples
Push the Excel COPILOT function with five advanced prompts on a real sales dataset — regional totals, ranking, category comparisons, and finding the top improver by dollars and by percentage — plus how to verify every answer.
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat's New Look: How Work IQ Replaces the Work and Web Toggle
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is getting a redesign, and I got it early at the end of May. This is the layout that rolls out to all users in July 2026, with an opt-in toggle available in June if you want to try it sooner. If you use Copilot
Microsoft Outlook
Auto-Reschedule Conflicting Meetings with Copilot in Outlook
If you have a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot license, there's a genuinely useful new calendar feature in Outlook: automatic meeting rescheduling. When a conflict arises, Copilot detects it and moves the meeting for you — no manual back-and-forth required. Here's exactly how to set it
Microsoft 365 Copilot
How to Use Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork to Build Word Docs, PowerPoint Decks, and Outlook Emails in One Prompt
Microsoft Copilot Cowork is the most exciting addition to Microsoft 365 Copilot I have used in a while. It is a multi-step agent that works across Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and your other apps at the same time — give it one prompt and it can search your mailbox, build deliverables
Microsoft Word
How to Use the Copilot Legal Agent to Redline Documents in Word
Microsoft Copilot in Word has a great new feature that just rolled out: the Legal Agent. It can review a contract, leave clause-level comments, and apply insertions and deletions with track changes — all from a prompt inside Word. I am not an attorney, so consider this a demo of
Microsoft Excel
Excel Copilot Got 3 Updates: New Icon Location, Preview Mode & Anthropic Claude Models
Microsoft Copilot in Excel just picked up three updates I think you'll want to know about. I caught these on Saturday, May 2nd, 2026, and they change how I use Copilot day to day. Let's walk through each one. Update 1: The Copilot Icon Moved Out
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Microsoft Teams
New Microsoft Teams Meeting Recap Features with Copilot (Speaker Summary, Executive Report, Audio Recap)
Microsoft Teams has rolled out new recap features for recorded meetings that work with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Alongside the AI summary and transcript we have had for a while, there is now a Custom summary section with three options — Speaker summary, Executive report, and Create template — plus an
Microsoft Word
Copilot in Word: Summary Differences Between Word for the Web and Word Desktop
Microsoft 365 Copilot can summarize a Word document in seconds, and it is one of the most popular features for licensed users. What is not obvious is that the summarize experience differs between Word Desktop and Word for the Web. The summary itself is identical in both, but Word for