Last updated: October 30, 2024
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This article applies only to when you’re using Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps for home. For example, when you’re using Microsoft Copilot Pro.
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By “for home” we mean when you’re signed in with a Microsoft account. For example, a personal outlook.com email address.
Copilot provides you with AI-powered assistance in Microsoft 365 apps. For example, in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, or OneNote.
Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps is covered by the Microsoft Services Agreement and the Copilot Terms of Use. For information about how Microsoft uses your personal data, see the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
Your data and Copilot
A “prompt” is what you ask Copilot to help you with; the answer Copilot provides is a “response.” Copilot doesn’t show you any previous prompts or responses after you close the app. Every time you open an app, you're starting over again with Copilot.
Copilot only makes use of the content in the file that you’re working in or content in another file that you ask it to look at. For example, when you ask Copilot to help you rewrite a paragraph in a Word document or when you ask Copilot to generate a to-do list from your notes in OneNote.
Your privacy settings and Copilot
You can choose your privacy settings when you're using Microsoft 365 apps. Your ability to use Copilot features depends on these two settings:
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Experiences that analyze content
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All connected experiences
If you turn off either of those settings, you can’t use Copilot features in these apps:
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Excel
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OneNote
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Outlook
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PowerPoint
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Word
This applies to when you’re running the most current version of these apps on Windows, Mac, iOS, or Android devices.
These settings also turn off other features that you might want to use. For more information, see Connected experiences in Microsoft 365.
