# Add content

> The option in Copilot Chat, and on a Page, to bring a specific file, link or piece of work content into your prompt instead of relying on a broad search.

**Category:** Copilot

**Add content is how you point Copilot at exactly the material you mean.** Copilot is already grounded in what [Microsoft Graph](/glossary#microsoft-graph) can reach, so a broad question searches everything you have access to. In Copilot Chat, the plus (+) icon in the message box opens a menu where you can add work content, upload files and images from your device, or attach cloud files from OneDrive, including files shared with you.

A narrowly scoped prompt is **more accurate and safer**: less noise to sift through, and less chance of surfacing an old, loosely shared file that should not have come up. It applies to the message you are writing, the narrowest of Copilot's context levels. An instruction you keep repeating across chats belongs in a [Copilot Notebook](/glossary#copilot-notebooks) or your personalization settings instead.

## At work

Before a renewal call, an account manager adds the signed contract and last month's meeting notes to her prompt, so Copilot summarises those two files rather than everything that mentions the client.

## Often confused with

Grounding. [Grounding](/glossary#grounding) is everything Copilot draws on to answer; Add content is you choosing the specific sources for one prompt.

## Related terms

- Grounding
- Microsoft Graph
- Tenant permissions
- Copilot Notebooks

## See it in a lesson

[Giving Copilot context](/en/learn/copilot/getting-started/giving-copilot-context)

## Further reading

- [Add content to Microsoft Copilot Chat prompts (Microsoft Support)](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/add-content-to-microsoft-365-copilot-chat-prompts): How to add work content, uploads and OneDrive files to a prompt.
- [What information does Copilot use to answer my prompt? (Microsoft Support)](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/what-information-does-copilot-use-to-answer-my-prompt): Which sources Copilot draws on when it answers you.

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Last updated: 14/10/2026  
Source: Rollo Academy glossary