Copilot Notebooks can now turn the references you’ve gathered into a finished Office file — a Word document, an Excel spreadsheet or a PowerPoint deck. One click starts it, and you never write a prompt. We tested all three and found that what you can change afterwards depends entirely on which format you picked.

Agent Mode in PowerPoint can now take a Teams meeting or chat as the source for a presentation, turning a conversation into a first draft deck. One prerequisite is easy to miss: without a transcript, there’s nothing for Copilot to work from. We look at how to get started, what’s genuinely new here, and what to watch for.

With Voice Interaction in Audio Overview, you can now ask questions directly within Microsoft 365 Word while listening, instead of pausing playback and searching through the document yourself. This is especially useful for long proposals, meeting notes, or briefings that you want to review on the go or between meetings. We take a look at what is already known and

In PowerPoint, Copilot can now draw on enterprise images from multiple SharePoint Organizational Asset Libraries — instead of just a single central image source. That’s interesting for marketing, sales and project teams who want to adapt presentations quickly while staying on-brand. An example: a product slide needs a new visual, and Copilot draws on approved brand images from the relevant

Copilot for PowerPoint can now explain shapes and images in the context of the slide they sit on — from a chart to a process diagram. It’s most useful when you need to get your head around someone else’s deck quickly, or turn what’s on a slide into speaker notes, summaries and answers to likely questions. Here’s what’s known so

Copilot in PowerPoint now lets you decide which AI model generates your slide images. Two recent additions join the picker: Microsoft’s own MAI Image 2.5 and FLUX.2 Flex from German vendor Black Forest Labs, alongside the familiar GPT-Image models. Here’s what sets them apart, when each one earns its place, and what to watch for with AI-generated images.