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title: "Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft M365): Copilot Chat can now better match search results from text that appears inside images embedded in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file"
date: 2026-09-10
roadmap_id: "570469"
source: "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=570469"
tags: ["Copilot"]
slug: "microsoft-copilot-microsoft-m365-copilot-chat-can-now-better-570469"
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# Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft M365): Copilot Chat can now better match search results from text that appears inside images embedded in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file

**Ship Outcomes, Not Chat** — a short read on a Microsoft 365 roadmap item.

## What it is

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft M365): Copilot Chat can now better match search results from text that appears inside images embedded in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file (Copilot). Roadmap id `570469`.

## What it does

Copilot Chat can now better match search results from text that appears inside images embedded in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files is user's working files — such as scanned contracts in Word, screenshots of tables in Excel, or whiteboard photos in PowerPoint — content that…

## What to worry about

Search-plus-chat is useful discovery. Do not mistake fluent answers for shipped outcomes.

## What it means for users

Treat Copilot as the door people already open. Route work through agents that finish steps under identity and audit.

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Source: [Microsoft 365 Roadmap](https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=570469)