From the course: Copilot in Outlook: Maximize Your Workday Efficiency
Check if you're using the new Outlook
From the course: Copilot in Outlook: Maximize Your Workday Efficiency
Check if you're using the new Outlook
- [Narrator] One other thing to be aware of if you want to be able to use all the features of Copilot in Outlook is that you have to use what's currently being referred to, at least as of this recording, as the new Outlook. Now, we're currently looking at the older or legacy version of Outlook in Windows. And while you can access some Copilot features here, when you say draft a new email, for example, here's the Copilot button or you can use it to draft a message or use the coaching feature. You'll only get the full experience if you're using the new Outlook. Now, one way to get the new Outlook is to come up to this upper right hand corner of the window and click this, "Try the new Outlook" switch here. This will either download and install the new Outlook for you, or if it's already on your computer, you can switch over to it from here. And now, we're looking at the new Outlook. Now alternately, if you don't have the new Outlook or any version of Outlook installed, you can open up the Microsoft store on your computer, do a search for Outlook, and that will bring up the latest version of Outlook, which you can then install from here. So, the new Outlook looks like this. You can see we have the Copilot menu in the ribbon, and the Copilot panel on the right is open. You can also access the Copilot chat experience by clicking the Copilot icon here in the left navigation area. I'll just go back to our inbox for now. And you can see the new Outlook switch is enabled. So again, this will give you the full Copilot experience in Outlook. Now the same thing goes if you're using Outlook on a Mac. First, make sure you're running the most current version of Outlook. If even after updating, you're still seeing this legacy interface, just come up to the switch at the top of the window and turn off legacy Outlook. And after a few moments, that switches us to the new Outlook for Mac. All right, so just make sure you're running the new Outlook on whichever operating system you're using. And let's jump into using Copilot.