Instructions for Using Copilot in OneDrive

This updated overview organizes the essential information about Instructions for Using Copilot in OneDrive, including practical uses, key features, setup considerations, and common questions.

In addition, Copilot also helps you create tables and improve content as well as create document summaries. Below are instructions for using Copilot in OneDrive.

How to use Copilot in OneDrive

Search for information in files

Through Copilot you can search for information in files stored in OneDrive. We just need to ask Copilot to find information in a certain file and will immediately receive the results we need.

Find where files are stored in OneDrive

If you store a lot of files in OneDrive, instead of searching manually or via the search bar, you can use Copilot right away.

Start by give the name of the file you want to find and then Copilot will search for the location of the file.

Summary of content in OneDrive

With files including PDF files, you can use Copilot to summarize the content, grasp the main ideas of a file as quickly as possible, and clearly understand the content of a file if you don't have time to read it or I don't understand the file's contents clearly.

Add a summary when sharing documents

We can also add summary content to documents when sharing, quickly providing information contained in the document to viewers without them necessarily having to open the document directly. However, sharing a summary created by Copilot when sharing a document only applies to Word documents on web-based OneDrive.