Microsoft is continuing to relentlessly push Copilot into every corner of its software ecosystem. This time, the company is introducing a new chat pane in SharePoint that will allow users to ask AI to edit their pages.
Once this change becomes live, you can use simple text prompts within that chat pane to iteratively edit both new and existing SharePoint pages on the fly. This builds upon the existing chat pane in SharePoint, which allowed you to ask Copilot various questions about documents from across your SharePoint instance, but without the ability to edit them.
Microsoft announced the upgraded AI chat pane in the Microsoft 365 Roadmap:
“This feature allows you to edit new and existing pages with an AI chat pane. Now, with just prompts, you can add webparts, grounding documents, and refine the visuals and text on your page.”
Microsoft also recently introduced the ability to build custom agents to query specific site data. However, none of those previous tools could actually alter an active page layout. You still had to use isolated menus just to rewrite a specific paragraph or generate an entire page from scratch.
Just a few weeks ago, Microsoft announced fundamental changes in the SharePoint design, but without specifying what those changes will look like. This new Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry now paints a much clearer picture of where the entire SharePoint experience is headed.
Once the new chat pane arrives, you’ll basically be able to do anything in SharePoint with AI. Be it summarizing documents with Copilot, finding relevant info from specific documents with agents, or editing entire documents with new AI capabilities.
Microsoft plans to launch this feature for SharePoint on the web for preview testing in May, with a general rollout to all enterprise users scheduled for August.
Source: Microsoft 365 Roadmap
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