Microsoft has offered its latest monthly update for its generative artificial intelligence service Copilot in its Microsoft 365 productivity subscription service, this time for the month of April 2024.

However, Microsoft’s Blog post for the April 2024 update Includes a feature that won’t be available until sometime in May. This will add a new function for the Outlook email client:

Starting in May, you can use Copilot in Outlook to connect to and explain your organizational data, including your chats, documents, meetings, and emails. You’ll find the Copilot app in the left app bar in Microsoft Outlook classic for Windows, new Outlook for Windows, and Outlook on the web.

Microsoft will also add another related feature in May. This will add a way to allow Copilot answers to your questions to be based on your locally stored files.

Word users in Microsoft 365 can now chat with Copilot in the app with answers provided by Microsoft’s cloud and Microsoft Graph data, Copilot in Word has also added a Rewrite feature to help improve text documents and can now create summaries of selected parts of Word file.

Other related new features include adding commercial data protection for people using the Copilot mobile app for Android and iOS, if you use Copilot in Excel, you can access a feature that lets it create multiple formula columns from just one text prompt.

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that Copilot for Microsoft 365 now supports the use of 16 additional languages, with more to be added in the near future. In May, the company plans to add support for Copilot for Microsoft 365 for its higher education customers. Schools with students under 18 will be able to access a private preview of Copilot sometime in spring 2024.