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Copilot in Microsoft Whiteboard

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Copilot in Microsoft Whiteboard

What Copilot adds to Microsoft Whiteboard: generating sticky-note ideas, organising a messy board into themes, and summarising a session.

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Good to know

Covered by the standard Microsoft 365 Copilot licence — no separate Whiteboard add-on.

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Can generate sticky-note ideas from a prompt and group existing notes into themes.

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Works on whatever is currently on the board, regardless of who added it.

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Does Copilot in Whiteboard need a separate licence from Copilot in Word or Teams?

No, it's covered by the same Microsoft 365 Copilot licence that covers Copilot across the other apps — there's no Whiteboard-specific add-on.

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Can Copilot organise sticky notes that other people wrote?

Yes. It works on whatever's currently on the board regardless of who added it, as long as you have edit access to the board.

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Does Copilot draw diagrams for me?

It can generate an initial visual layout or diagram from a text prompt (a simple flowchart or grouped structure), but it isn't a substitute for detailed diagramming and won't produce a polished, presentation-ready diagr…

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Can Copilot summarise a Whiteboard session for people who weren't there?

Yes — asking for a summary turns a cluttered board of stickies and shapes into a short written readout, which is often more useful to share afterwards than a screenshot of the board itself.

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