{"id":139487,"date":"2025-09-15T18:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/139487\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:57:09","slug":"microsofts-office-apps-now-have-free-copilot-chat-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/139487\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Office apps now have free Copilot Chat features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft is adding the free Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and agents to Office apps for all Microsoft 365 business users today. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote are <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/blog\/microsoft365copilotblog\/copilot-chat-comes-to-the-microsoft-365-apps\/4453349\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">all being updated<\/a> with a Copilot Chat sidebar that will help draft documents, analyze spreadsheets, and more without needing an additional Microsoft 365 Copilot license.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cCopilot Chat is secure AI chat grounded in the web\u2014and now, it\u2019s available in the Microsoft 365 apps,\u201d explains Seth Patton, general Manager of Microsoft 365 Copilot product marketing. \u201cIt\u2019s content aware, meaning it quickly understands what you\u2019re working on, tailoring answers to the file you have open. And it\u2019s included at no additional cost for Microsoft 365 users.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">While this free version of Copilot will rewrite documents, provide summaries, and help create slides in PowerPoint, the $30 per month, per user Microsoft 365 Copilot license will still have the best integration in Office apps. The Microsoft 365 Copilot license is also not limited to a single document, and can reason over entire work data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cUsers with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license get priority access to features like file upload and image generation, along with the latest technology like GPT-5, including faster response times and more consistent availability\u2014even during peak usage periods,\u201c explains Patton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft previously bundled its AI-powered Copilot features into Office apps for consumer Microsoft 365 plans earlier this year, but it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2025\/1\/16\/24345051\/microsoft-365-personal-family-copilot-office-ai-price-rises\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raised the prices of subscriptions<\/a> at the same time. Microsoft isn\u2019t doing any price adjustments for businesses with Copilot Chat being added to Office apps. Microsoft is also getting ready to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/776235\/microsoft-365-copilot-bundle-sales-service-finance-announcement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bundle its sales, service, and finance Copilots<\/a> into the Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription in October, reducing the price for some businesses that rely on Microsoft\u2019s latest AI tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft is adding the free Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and agents to Office apps for all Microsoft 365&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[554,59,696,50,227,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-139487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-gb","tag-microsoft","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}