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Yes, however this feature is only available for M365 business subscribers (commercial users), which by the way, can use some other quite useful Copilot features.

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Now, let’s clarify something. In January 2025, Microsoft made available Copilot for all personal and family users (consumers), which brought about very ?specific AI capabilities that are limited in comparison to Copilot for commercial users. This has always been the case since Microsoft launched the AI integration in the M365 ecosystem. So, working with multiple files residing in OneDrive? is only available for business subscribers. Now, let’s tackle what exactly means “working with multiple files.” This simply means that the user can reference (select) multiple files stored in either OneDrive or SharePoint an ask Copilot to do something drawing on the information contained in such documents.

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Now, in my own experience, let’s tackle the fact of why could be relevant using OneDrive and Copilot if one owns a personal or family subscription. Insofar as Excell, I can’t tell much because I hardly ever use it, but I heard that for some things the document you’re working on should reside in OneDrive undoubtedly. On PowerPoint, the only advantage I’ve found is document transformation from a link. Let me clarify this. Let’s say I want to create a PowerPoint presentation from a file that I wrote. I can simply go to the file explorer on my Windows PC, search for my document, and using the “share” option,? generate a link as if I were to send this link via e-mail to a friend of mine. ?Then, instead of sending this link to my friend, I rather launch PowerPoint, bring up Copilot pane, an introduce the following prompt:

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Create a PowerPoint presentation from the document available in the following link:? LinkToYourDocument”

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Wait for a few seconds and you’ll see magic. Now, here’s the secret. The document must reside in OneDrive. No other option or way to circumvent this.

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Yes, but I thought I’d read somewhere that in order to work with multiple files, the files would all have to reside in OneDrive. That’s what I’m trying to clarify. I’m hoping you’re absolutely correct, and my previous impression is completely inaccurate.

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Joe

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Joe, I don’t see the connection. OneDrive is a file synchronization service. Copilot is Microsoft’s AI service.

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Hi,

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Can someone please clarify the use of OneDrive as part of Copilot on M365? I use Dropbox as my primary platform, have no interest in switching to OneDrive, but as a result, what features would I be missing out on with Copilot?

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Thanks in advance,

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Joe

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