Microsoft is building a sharing feature for chats into Copilot. A link is enough to share an entire conversation or a single response with colleagues. Recipients can see the content immediately for review, without anyone having to copy text and paste it into an email. The feature is part of the paid Copilot subscription and launches worldwide in August 2026.
Copilot now sends entire chats as a link
In Microsoft 365 Copilot, a sharing icon now appears above each chat window, according to an announcement in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. A click on it generates a link that contains either the entire conversation or just a single response. Anyone who opens the link sees the chat in a read-only view – tables, bullet points, and citations stay intact.
Until now, users had to manually highlight, copy, and paste Copilot responses into an email or chat, often losing formatting in the process. Anyone who opens a shared link can take the conversation as a starting point for their own inquiry and continue working from there. The recipient does not gain access to the original chat of the sender.
The Microsoft 365 Roadmap lists the feature under ID 562353. It is planned for Copilot on the web, on Windows, on Mac, in Teams, and on mobile devices. A separate, shorter link can be generated for a single response, showing only that one answer and suited for brief follow-up questions. Joint editing of the original chat is not part of the design: each recipient instead starts their own, independent copy of the conversation.
In everyday office work, the feature saves copying and pasting
An example from practice: a caseworker has Copilot summarize an unclear contract clause and wants to send the response to a colleague in the legal department for review. Previously, she had to highlight the text, paste it into an email, and manually fix the formatting. With the new feature, she instead sends a link. The colleague sees the complete response along with source references in the original layout and can add her own follow-up questions to Copilot if needed. A similar approach works when accounting has Copilot summarize a cost overview. The numbers then go straight to the team lead as a link, without reformatting tables by hand.
Here’s how to use the feature:
- Open a chat or a single response in Copilot.
- Select the sharing icon at the top right of the chat, or below the single response.
- Check the preview window to see which content the link includes.
- Copy the link and send it via email, Teams, or chat.
- The recipient opens the link and reads the conversation.
The feature only works with a paid Copilot subscription
The sharing feature belongs to Microsoft 365 Copilot, the paid add-on subscription for Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams. According to the current price list, the add-on typically costs around 30 euros per user per month on top of the existing Office subscription, though corporate discounts may differ. As with other Copilot features, such as the automatically found email attachments, the sharing feature stays invisible without a license. The rollout is set to begin in August 2026 across standard tenants worldwide, and Microsoft names no separate restriction for Germany or the rest of the EU.
When the feature appears in a given company depends on that tenant’s individual update schedule and can therefore vary. It remains unclear which exact license tier the feature requires; Microsoft does not distinguish in the announcement. Microsoft has recently rolled out similar sharing features in other Copilot areas too, such as the automatic creation of Word and Excel files in SharePoint. Even before this new feature, individual Copilot pages could already be shared. Session and response sharing now extends that to the complete chat history.
What matters most is how carefully employees handle the new links. Anyone who creates a link shares the content with every person who receives it – regardless of department or role. Internal company figures, customer data, or contract details from a Copilot chat therefore belong only in links that actually go to the intended recipients. Internal rules on data handling continue to apply unchanged. It also remains open whether companies can centrally restrict sharing with people outside their own organization.
