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Copilot Pro: What can Microsoft’s 365 premium AI do?

Copilot Pro delivers the power of the AI chat tool Chat-GPT directly to your Microsoft Office applications and the Windows sidebar. The tool summarizes texts, replies to emails, creates new texts, analyses Excel spreadsheets and creates presentations.

A miracle machine that does all your Office tasks for you automatically? We took a look at the tool.

GETTING STARTED

To be able to use Copilot Pro, a few requirements must be met. First, you need a paid subscription to Microsoft 365 Personal (£5.99 per month) or Family (from £7.99 per month). These are available from fave.co/43WZs3m.

Then you need to take out a subscription to Copilot Pro with the same Microsoft account for £19 per month (fave.co/3vLZdMa). Both subscriptions can be cancelled monthly. You also need Windows 10 or 11 – we tested on Windows 11.

Copilot Pro will appear in Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office) programs, including Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point and OneNote. However, it is not installed directly; there is no installation file to download and run.

Instead, after purchasing the Copilot Pro licence, you must go to File > Account > Update licence in any Office application. Copilot should then automatically appear in the program after restarting the application.

On our test computers, however, there were massive problems,

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