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Issue #161 / 13-JUL-26

Evolving the Copilot experience in Microsoft Forms

Microsoft Forms now features seamless integration with a Copilot chat experience. This builds on the familiar Copilot interactions users already know from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, while adding Forms-specific intelligence to help you create, refine, and analyze forms more effectively. Copilot works alongside your form to deliver tailored suggestions and refinements, help configure settings, prepare your form for distribution, and turn responses into clear, actionable insights.

Co-create documents with Copilot in Word for iPad

You can now work with Copilot as a co-creator directly within your Word document on iPad, instead of having to switch between different tools and commands. Whether you’re drafting new content, refining existing text, or restructuring a document, Copilot can make edits directly in place while preserving your document formatting and structure through Word’s built-in styles.

Available today: OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 in Microsoft 365 Copilot

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family of models is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot—in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat and Cowork. OpenAI and Microsoft partnered together to optimize GPT-5.6 for knowledge work across Microsoft 365 apps and make it the preferred model for Microsoft 365 Copilot. In addition to serving the models natively, Microsoft will also access OpenAI models directly through the API to bring GPT-5.6 to Microsoft 365 customers.