What's New in Microsoft 365 Copilot: Inline Images, Attachment Lists and a OneNote Redesign

A quick round-up of recent M365 Copilot changes worth an admin's attention — responses now surface images inline, Copilot can list email attachments, and the OneNote Copilot overview got a rework.

What's new — a short, independent summary. Read Microsoft's original: Microsoft Learn →

Copilot ships small changes constantly, most of which don’t need a blog post of their own. Here are three recent ones that are worth knowing about if you support the people using it — grouped, because individually none of them justifies your attention for more than a minute.

Images now appear inline in responses

Copilot responses used to be text-only. Now Copilot surfaces relevant images from your files and meetings directly within its answers, while keeping to the same Microsoft 365 data and compliance boundaries. For anything visual — a diagram in a deck, a chart in a doc — it’s a genuine comprehension win, and it saves the “open the source file just to see the picture it’s describing” dance. No admin action; it’s a client-side experience change your users will simply notice.

Copilot can list email attachments

A small but frequently-wanted one: Copilot can now surface the attachments on an email or thread rather than just summarising the text. “What files came with this thread” is a question people ask constantly, and now it has an answer that doesn’t involve scrolling back through the conversation.

OneNote’s Copilot overview got a redesign

The Copilot Notebooks overview in OneNote has been reworked — cleaner AI-generated summaries and key insights, plus one-click artifacts to act on what’s in the notebook. If your users live in OneNote, it’s a nicer front door to the Copilot features that were already there.

The admin takeaway

None of these need configuration, but they change what users see, which changes what they’ll ask you about. Copilot’s surface area shifts week to week — the useful habit is skimming the release notes occasionally so a “when did Copilot start doing this?” question doesn’t catch you flat.

Source: Microsoft Learn. Summarised independently — check the source for the latest detail.