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Microsoft is bringing Word, Excel and PowerPoint into the Copilot app, with the rollout starting in mid-November 2026.
Word, Excel and PowerPoint are coming to the Copilot app
Microsoft is bringing Word, Excel and PowerPoint to the Copilot app. There you can create, view, edit and work on files together with others, without leaving the app. Microsoft will start the rollout in mid-November 2026 and expects to finish it in the same month.
If you have Microsoft 365 Copilot through your work, you will see this in the Copilot app after that. Whether you get it depends on your employer's policy. That policy also decides whether Copilot may read and change the content of your Office files. If you don't know what is allowed for you, ask your administrator or the IT department.
Background for subscribersIf you have Microsoft 365 Copilot through your work, then after mid-November 2026 you can create, view, edit and co-edit files in the Copilot app without switching to another program. Changes also show up in the regular Office apps. What is new is that Copilot can read and edit the content of your Office files.
Copilot: projects keep an ongoing topic together
A Copilot project contains the chats, tasks, instructions and files that belong together. In Cowork, the part for bigger tasks, projects have existed since October. In November they also come to Copilot Chat. If you work on the same topic for weeks, you keep everything in one place. You then don't have to explain to Copilot every time what it is about. Whether and when you get projects depends on your organization.
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