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You can access four new Copilot skills directly from File Explorer.
You can summarize, ask questions, and compare up to five files.
The process supports Microsoft 365 files, PDFs, and web files.
Microsoft 365 users have long been able to turn to Copilot on the web to analyze and answer questions about their documents and other files. But now they can get help from Microsoft's AI directly in Windows.
On Thursday, Microsoft announced four new Copilot skills accessible from File Explorer. By right-clicking on any supported file stored in OneDrive, you can ask Copilot to summarize it, answer questions about it, and create an FAQ. And by selecting as many as five files, you can tell the AI to compare them all.
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To tap into the new skills, you'll need a Microsoft 365 Family or Personal subscription. The files you wish to analyze must be stored in OneDrive and appear in File Explorer. For now, only certain files are supported. These include Microsoft 365 documents (DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLSX, FLUID, LOOP), universal formats (PDF, TXT, RTF), web files (HTM, HTML), and OpenDocument formats (ODT, ODP). Sorry, but photos and videos haven't been invited to the party.
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