9 ways Copilot can turbocharge OneNote

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9 ways Copilot can turbocharge OneNote Microsoft OneNote is a robust note-taking tool in its own right, but the integration of Copilot, Microsoft's AI assistant, takes it to a whole new level. In this guide, we highlight a handful of Copilot functions in OneNote that speed up and enhance how you work with your notes, from summarizing the contents of a notebook to creating visual materials from its data. (We have a separate story that introduces OneNote's interface, layout, and tools and another that covers Copilot's writing capabilities in OneNote, Word, and Outlook.) Read more 15 mins

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