Mon Sep 16 15:47:12 UTC 2024: ## Microsoft Boosts Office Productivity with New Copilot Features

**Redmond, WA – September 16, 2024** – Microsoft continues to expand its AI-powered Copilot integration across its Office suite, making it even more powerful for users.

**Excel Gets a Python Boost and Copilot Integration:** After a year in preview, Python support in Excel is now generally available, allowing users to perform advanced analysis like forecasting, risk analysis, and machine learning without coding. Users can also leverage the newly launched public preview of Copilot in Excel to conduct these analyses using natural language prompts.

**PowerPoint Gets Smarter with Narrative Builder and Brand Manager:** Microsoft introduces Narrative Builder for PowerPoint, which helps users draft presentation outlines based on text prompts. Brand Manager, also added to PowerPoint, enables users to easily access and integrate company brand assets into presentations.

**Outlook Prioritizes Your Inbox with Copilot:** The new “Prioritize My Inbox” feature leverages Copilot to summarize emails and highlight important messages, ensuring users don’t miss critical correspondence. Users can also train Copilot to prioritize emails based on specific topics, keywords, or individuals. This feature will be available in public preview later this year.

**Copilot Enhancements for OneDrive:** Microsoft has finally rolled out Copilot support for its OneDrive file service, allowing users to quickly find information, summarize, and compare up to five files. This new functionality is available to all users by the end of September.

**Copilot Makes Office More Powerful:** These new Copilot features further demonstrate Microsoft’s commitment to enhancing user productivity across its Office suite. By automating tasks, providing insights, and making complex analyses more accessible, Microsoft aims to empower users to be more efficient and creative with their work.

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