Copilot Notebooks now works with Markdown, plain-text, and rich-text files

Source: Microsoft 365 Copilot Blog By abhkaushik

Summary

Add your READMEs, wikis, logs, and transcripts to your notebook Your most useful project knowledge does not always live in a polished document. It might be captured in a README, project wiki, system log, meeting transcript, research export, or a simple text file. Copilot Notebooks can now use Markdown (.md), rich text format (.rtf) and plain text (.txt) files as references—helping you bring more of the content your work runs on into one focused workspace. Add the files to a notebook, chat with Copilot, and generate grounded insights and useful…

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Add your READMEs, wikis, logs, and transcripts to your notebook Your most useful project knowledge does not always live in…

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