How to Use Copilot in Microsoft OneDrive

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Copilot is now built into OneDrive for Microsoft 365 subscribers to help make sense of documents, meeting notes, photos and other files. A new floating Copilot button in the lower right of the web interface offers suggested prompts such as summarize a file, create an FAQ from a file, or ask a question from a file. You can select up to five files and ask Copilot to summarize them, extract key takeaways, or compare similar documents — it generates a table summarizing key changes and additions between versions. In Windows File Explorer, right-clicking a file via the OneDrive menu (or via the taskbar OneDrive icon) gives the same options, e.g. summarizing a Word document in the Copilot pane or creating an FAQ to copy elsewhere. Copilot also works on non-text files: it can recap a meeting recording, say whether you were mentioned, answer questions about it, and analyze a photo of a whiteboard as if reading a text document. Finally, Generate/Create Audio Overview in the mobile app (iOS or Android) and on the web produces a spoken summary; on the web you can choose a summary-style audio file or a longer podcast-style file where two virtual hosts discuss the file conversationally, with playback controls and background playback on mobile.

Key takeaways

• Use the floating Copilot button in the OneDrive web interface for suggested prompts like summarize, create an FAQ, or ask a question about a file
• Select up to five files at once to summarize them, pull key takeaways, or compare versions in a table of changes and additions
• Access the same Copilot options from Windows File Explorer by right-clicking a file, or from the OneDrive taskbar icon
• Copilot can recap meeting recordings, note mentions of you, and extract information from photos such as a whiteboard picture
• Generate an audio overview to listen on the go — summary-style, or on the web a podcast-style version with two virtual hosts

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