Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Pro, and Microsoft 365 Copilot support a wide range of file formats for things like create or summarize. The contents of uploaded files can be referenced in subsequent prompts.

Microsoft Copilot and Copilot Pro

To add a file, select the plus sign (+) icon in the chat box. To add an image, select the image icon in the chat box.

Below are the supported file formats:

Documents: PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX

Text-based Files: RTF, TXT, CSV, LOG, INI, CONFIG

Images: GIF, JFIF, PJPEG, JPEG, JPG, PJP, PNG, WEBP

Audio: WAV

Programming Languages: PY, JS, JSX, JAVA, PHP, CS, C, CPP, CXX, H, HPP, M, COFFEE, DART, LUA, PL, PM, RB, RS, SWIFT, GO, KT, KTS, R, SCALA, T, TS, TSX

Shell Scripts: BASH, SH, ZSH

Markup and Documentation: HTML, CSS, MD, RMD, TEX, LATEX

Database Languages: SQL

Data Serialization Formats: IPYNB, JSON, TOML, YAML, YML

Microsoft 365 CopilotĀ (Work)

To add a file, select the paperclip icon in the chat box.

Below are the supported file formats:

Microsoft Office Documents: DOC, DOCX, FLUID, LOOP, PPT, PPTX, XLSX

Other Document Types: PDF, ODT, ODP

Text-based Files: RTF, TXT

Markup and Documentation: ASPX, HTM, HTML

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