Microsoft Copilot: New Productivity Feature Announcements

Microsoft Copilot: New Productivity Feature Announcements

This year’s Microsoft Ignite of 2024 has brought exciting updates to Microsoft 365 applications, with a clear focus on enhancing productivity and collaboration through Microsoft Copilot.

The Valto team headed over to Chicago in order to hear first hand the exciting new announcements relating to Microsoft Copilot.

We wanted to share with you our top 3 favourite productivity announcements that will transform the way you work!

Copilot Actions

Here are some of the latest features that have been announced during the event:

Copilot Actions

Managing repetitive tasks can take a toll on your productivity, but Copilot Actions makes this easier than ever. At the heart of Copilot is the ability to save you time on the not so interesting tasks so you can focus on real value add work.

With simple prompts, you can delegate routine tasks to Copilot, freeing up your time to focus on what really matters.

For instance, you can ask it to create an action to gather team inputs for your monthly newsletter.

This will result in time savings and will also make sure that you are not missing important details when trying to keep on top of all of your tasks.

Delegated actions could include scheduling such this as regularly summarising communications from a specific area.

It might be asking other to complete a task by a specific deadline, and following up with chasers.

You might wish to create a new document from existing files automatically. For example this might be consolidating all of the key updates from departments into a monthly board pack for the end of month review.

By offloading repetitive tasks, you can focus on what truly matters.

Copilot in Microsoft Teams

Collaboration in Microsoft Teams just got way smarter with new AI capabilities brought to you by Microsoft Copilot.

The updates to Copilot in Teams include:

• Recapping and answering questions based on visual content shared onscreen, such as key metrics or deadlines. This truly is a game changer. So far Copilot for Microsoft Teams has only been able to reason over what is discussed during a Microsoft Teams meeting. Essentially it is just looking at what has been said and documented into the transcript of the meeting. However, now it can also reason of content that is shared on your screen, such as PowerPoint or a document shared within the meeting. This closes the gap of any information that may not have been said out loud but it was communicated visually from being excluded from what Copilot can then process for you.
• Summarising shared files in chat without needing to open them and spend time skimming through them yourself. You will soon see that when opening a document you will have a quick summary for you at the top of the document. This is going to make it so much quicker when a colleague shares a document with you during a Microsoft Teams meeting to get the context quickly without having to read the entire document.
• Generating meeting recaps in a selected translation language, ensuring inclusivity and accessibility for global teams. If you are working within a multi lingual team then this feature is going to make collaborating with them so much easier. It allows people to use Copilot to understand what happened in a meeting in their own native language.

We are so excited by these announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2024. We cannot wait to see how these enhancements allow Teams users to stay aligned and informed, regardless of their location or time zone.

Hear from our CEO

Microsoft Copilot is designed to save countless hours by streamlining administrative tasks and delivering actionable insights. Valto is already reaping the benefits, and we can help you achieve the same level of productivity and efficiency.

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CEO , Hugh Valentine

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