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What's New in Microsoft Copilot for Everyone

A short refresher on the latest Microsoft Copilot for Everyone updates

What this course covers

The course runs across 7 topics, each one a short adaptive session rather than a recorded lecture. The tutor explains the idea, works an example, checks understanding, and adjusts the next step to the answer given.

  • Work IQ button controls use of your work data — What's different: Web and work chats are now one chat, with a Work IQ button at the top left that turns the use of your work data on or off (it is on by default). Why it matters for your work: You no longer switch tabs; you just decide per chat whether Copilot should look at your emails, files and meetings or only the web. Try it (about 2 minutes): Open Copilot Chat, find the Work IQ button at the top left, ask "What did I agree to in my last three meetings?", then turn Work IQ off and ask again to see the difference. No access? Here's what you'd see: A single Work IQ button appears at the top left of the combined chat to toggle work data grounding.
  • New Home puts Chat and Cowork on one screen — What's different: Home in the Copilot app now brings Chat and Cowork together with a new side menu for Plugins, Automations, Workspaces and Projects, plus one shared history with search and filters. Why it matters for your work: The first screen and side menu most people see are changing, so finding past chats and tools works differently. Try it (about 2 minutes): Open the Copilot app, look at the side menu, and use the history search box to find a chat you had last week. No access? Here's what you'd see: The Copilot app Home screen displays Chat and Cowork together, featuring a side menu for plugins and a shared history search box.
  • Clean up your Outlook inbox by asking Copilot — What's different: Copilot in Outlook can now delete, move, copy and categorize emails and create folders and inbox rules from a chat request, and it asks first before touching more than five emails or changing rules. Why it matters for your work: Routine inbox sorting that used to take many clicks can now be done with one sentence. Try it (about 2 minutes): In Copilot Chat in Outlook, type "Move all emails from [sender] this month into a new folder called [name]", review the confirmation, and approve it.
  • Make your own skills in Copilot Chat — What's different: Skills are coming to Copilot Chat, so you can write a reusable skill in plain words and find skills shared by coworkers in the Plugins section. Why it matters for your work: Steps you repeat often can be saved once and reused so results stay consistent across a team. Try it (about 2 minutes): In Copilot Chat, describe a task you do every week and ask Copilot to save it as a skill, then open Plugins to see it listed. No access? Here's what you'd see: In Copilot Chat, users can save custom skills written in plain words and find shared coworker skills listed in the Plugins section.
  • Notebooks are becoming Workspaces — What's different: Copilot Notebooks are turning into Copilot Workspaces, a shared team space where people and Copilot work on the same files and context together. Why it matters for your work: Training and help pages that say Notebooks will soon look different, and teams can now work in one place with live cursors showing who is editing. Try it (about 2 minutes): Open the Copilot app, go to the section that lists your notebooks or workspaces, open one, and check whether you can invite a teammate to it. No access? Here's what you'd see: You'd no longer see Copilot Notebooks; use Copilot Workspaces (Frontier first in October 2026; existing notebooks become workspaces) instead. Renamed or removed: Copilot Notebooks → Copilot Workspaces (Frontier first in October 2026; existing notebooks become workspaces)
  • Also new — - Projects keep related chats and tasks together: Projects let you group related chats, tasks, files, and meetings on one topic with an Outputs view. - Agents page is now called Plugins: The Agents page in Copilot has been renamed to Plugins and houses agents, skills, and connectors. - Newer Claude and GPT models in the model picker: New Claude Opus and GPT models have been added to the Copilot model picker. - Add emails and Teams meetings to Notebooks: Copilot Notebooks can now use Outlook emails and Teams meetings as sources. - Select part of an answer and ask about just that: You can now highlight specific parts of a Copilot response to ask follow-up questions about them. - Cowork can build on earlier chats and tasks: You can now attach past Copilot Chat conversations or Cowork tasks as context for new Cowork requests. - Cowork can read and update OneNote and Planner: Cowork can now read and update OneNote notebooks and manage Planner plans and tasks. - Ready-made role plugins and task catalog in Cowork: Cowork now offers role-based plugins and a catalog of suggested task templates. - Base a new PowerPoint deck on an existing deck's style: You can now base a new PowerPoint presentation on an existing deck's theme and styles. - Get a different answer with Try again or Switch model: A new Regenerate option lets you rerun prompts using Try again or a different model. - and 8 more: Federated connectors bring live outside data into Copilot; Reusable Skills and Brand Kit in PowerPoint; Choose how hard Cowork works on a task; Share a whole chat or one answer by link; Ask follow-up questions on Copilot Search results; New Copilot look in Word, Excel and PowerPoint; Excel can spot and fix messy data; Cowork's Scheduled tab is now called Automations
  • Try one on your own work — Pick the one main change from this course that is most useful to your job. Try it in your own Microsoft Copilot for Everyone on a real task, then paste or describe what you got. The coach gives short, specific feedback. No access to the app or plan it needs? Describe how you would use it on a real task this week. That counts too. There is no score and no pass or fail: finishing this completes the course.

Skills you build

Results are measured against named skills in the OneRange taxonomy of more than 10,000 skills, so a manager sees proficiency per skill rather than a completion tick.

Who it is for

The material is pitched at intermediate level, and takes roughly 20 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

It sits in the Tool: Microsoft Copilot track of the Vero AI Catalog, and can be assigned to one person, a team, or the whole company.

How it is delivered and assessed

Delivery is conversational and interactive. There is no video to sit through and no slide deck to click past.

Understanding is checked with a lab assessment, with a pass mark of 70%.

Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

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Frequently asked questions

How long does this course take?

It runs roughly 20 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

How is it assigned to a team?

An administrator assigns it from the Vero dashboard to one person, a team, a department or the whole company, and sees progress and results per person and per skill.

Can we customise it with our own documents and terminology?

Yes. Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Course code what-s-new-in-microsoft-copilot-for-everyone-e4d85f86.