Microsoft Copilot Outlook

Microsoft 365 Copilot in Outlook: Manage Email with Natural Language Commands in Outlook Classic, New, Web, Mac & Mobile.

Overview

Microsoft 365 Copilot can help you manage your inbox faster using natural language commands.
Instead of manually pinning, flagging, archiving, or updating email status, simply tell Copilot what you want to do.

This feature is available to all Microsoft 365 users and works in:

  • Outlook for Windows (Classic and New Outlook)
  • Outlook on the web
  • Outlook for Mac
  • Outlook Mobile (iOS and Android)
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat (Premium License)

What You Can Do

Copilot in Outlook can help you:

  • Pin or unpin emails
  • Flag or unflag messages
  • Mark flagged emails as complete
  • Archive emails
  • Mark emails as read or unread

Getting Started

  1. Open Outlook.
  2. Open Copilot in Outlook in the upper right corner.
  3. Select an email or describe the email you want to manage.
  4. Enter a natural language request.

Example Prompts/Commands:

Pin Important Messages:

  • Pin this email.
  • Pin all emails from Financial Services.
  • Unpin this message.

Flag Messages for Follow-Up

  • Flag this email.
  • Flag all messages from my manager this week.
  • Remove the flag from this email.
  • Mark this flagged email as complete.

Archive Email

  • Archive this email.
  • Archive all newsletter emails from today.
  • Archive emails older than 30 days from this folder.

Manage Read Status

  • Mark this email as read.
  • Mark all emails from this sender as read.
  • Mark this email as unread.

 

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