Satya Nadella has announced new capabilities for Copilot in Microsoft Word, expanding how users interact with documents during editing and review workflows. The update focuses on professionals handling contracts, policies, and other detail-heavy documents where accuracy and traceability are critical. According to Microsoft, the features are designed to work directly within Word, ensuring that formatting, document structure, and collaboration history remain intact.
One of the key additions is AI-powered track changes with word-level precision, where users can enable track changes through Copilot, making every edit visible by default. This helps teams review modifications in a structured way and maintain a clear audit trail during revisions.
Another feature is contextual comments in which users can add, read, and reply to comments tied to specific parts of a document. Copilot manages these comment threads while keeping them anchored to the relevant text, allowing teams to maintain context during collaborative editing.
Copilot can additionally insert and update tables of contents using built-in heading styles. It can also manage dynamic elements such as headers, footers, page numbers, and dates, which update automatically as the document evolves.
These new capabilities are powered by Microsoft’s Work IQ layer, which personalizes responses based on organizational data and user context. Copilot operates within the Microsoft 365 Copilot environment, ensuring that sensitivity labels and data protection policies remain enforced.
