Microsoft has introduced through the Microsoft 365 Insider Weblog you could now use your cell system (Android or iOS) to take or add pictures on to Microsoft 365 Copilot in your laptop.

Earlier than this replace, the way in which this labored was that you simply needed to ship the picture to your laptop both by way of e-mail or utilizing instruments like LocalSend. After sending the image out of your telephone to your laptop, you would then add it to Copilot. Here is how the brand new function works:

1. Open a brand new or present doc, spreadsheet, presentation, or pocket book.
2. Open Copilot from the Residence tab within the ribbon.
3. Choose the + button within the decrease left-hand nook of the chat field, then choose Add a picture.

4. Choose Add from telephone.

5. Together with your telephone or pill, scan the generated QR code. This can direct you to open up an internet web page in your most popular browser in your cell system.
6. In your cell system, choose Take a photograph if you need to take a brand new picture, or Choose a picture out of your picture library.

7. Discover the uploaded picture seems in your desktop or browser within the Copilot chat field.

This function is accessible in Copilot inside Microsoft 365 apps (like Phrase, Excel, and PowerPoint) for Home windows and the net. For Insiders on Home windows, you’d need to be on Model 2504 (Construct 18603.20000) of Phrase, Excel, and PowerPoint to make use of this function.

Each Insiders on the net and Home windows have to have an Enterprise Copilot license to entry the function.

This isn’t the one function Microsoft has launched to Copilot in Microsoft 365. Weeks in the past, the corporate added Copilot for OneDrive on the net, permitting Microsoft 365 subscribers to do issues like summarize paperwork, examine as much as 5 paperwork, and reply questions utilizing a specific doc as context.