--- id: copilot-copilot-pages lang: en track: copilot title: "What are Copilot Pages?" seoTitle: "Copilot Pages: keep and share answers" description: "Turn a Copilot chat answer into a Page you can keep, edit and co-edit live with colleagues, and learn when a Page is the right home for Copilot output." part: getting-started partTitle: "Getting started with Copilot" partOrder: 2 order: 4 level: Beginner durationMinutes: 3 outcome: "Use Pages to turn Copilot output into something you and others can keep working on." summary: "A Page turns a Copilot chat answer into a document you can keep, edit, and, unlike a normal chat reply, co-edit live with colleagues." draft: false updated: "2026-10-14" furtherReading: - title: "How Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages works" url: "https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-microsoft-365-copilot-pages-works-d155bd99-c3cc-4ef8-8da4-c0a92bfce29b" note: "How Pages are stored, shared and kept." - title: "Get started with Copilot Pages" url: "https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/get-started-with-microsoft-365-copilot-pages" note: "Step by step: create your first Page from a Copilot answer." - title: "Frequently asked questions about Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages" url: "https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/frequently-asked-questions-about-microsoft-365-copilot-pages-aaffb2d7-cbd7-4b57-a69a-69a29bd03685" note: "Microsoft's answers to common questions about Pages." - title: "View or restore an earlier version of your Microsoft 365 Copilot Page" url: "https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/Microsoft-365-Copilot/view-or-restore-an-earlier-version-of-your-microsoft-365-copilot-page" note: "How to use a Page's version history." keywords: - Copilot Pages - Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages - co-edit Copilot output - save a Copilot answer - Copilot Page version history - collaborate with Copilot quiz: intro: "Four quick questions. Ace them all and the next lesson unlocks." passScore: 4 questions: - q: "What's the core difference between a normal Copilot Chat reply and a Page?" options: - "A Page is just a longer chat reply" - "A Page is a persistent, editable document; a chat reply scrolls away as the conversation continues" - "A Page can be read but not edited" answer: 1 explain: "A Page is a persistent, editable document; a chat reply scrolls away as the conversation continues." - q: "What can multiple people do on the same Copilot Page at once?" options: - "Only view it, while one person edits" - "Each work on their own private copy" - "Nothing, because a Page can't be shared" - "Co-edit it live, the same way as a shared Word or OneNote document" answer: 3 explain: "Co-edit it live, the same way as a shared Word or OneNote document, and keep chatting with Copilot from inside it." - q: "Which of these is worth sending to a Page rather than leaving in chat?" options: - "A proposal you build up across several chats" - "A one-off answer you only needed right now" - "Nothing, since chat answers can't be added to a Page" answer: 0 explain: "Any answer you'll keep, edit further, or share with others: a draft report, meeting brief, or a proposal built up across several chats. A one-off answer can stay in the chat." - q: "If an edit to a Page goes wrong, what's the best way to get the earlier version back?" options: - "Rebuild it from memory" - "Ask Copilot to start a new Page from scratch" - "Open the Page's version history and restore an earlier version" - "Nothing, because edits on a Page are permanent" answer: 2 explain: "Open the Page's version history and restore an earlier version, instead of rebuilding it from memory." pass: badge: "Perfect score" title: "You can make Copilot work stick." body: "Full marks. You know when to send an answer to a Page, how to co-edit it, and how to restore an earlier version. Next up: giving Copilot context, so its answers fit your role and your work." retry: "Check the marked answers and give it another go. You've got this." --- > **Level:** Beginner ยท **Reading time:** ~3 min > > **What you'll be able to do:** use Pages to turn Copilot output into something you and others can keep working on. ## The problem Pages solves A normal Copilot Chat reply is just that: a reply. Scroll up enough and it's gone from view; ask a follow-up and the original answer doesn't move with you. A Page takes a chat response out of that scrolling conversation and puts it on its own persistent canvas: a real, editable document that stays put, that you can shape further, and that doesn't get buried under the next question you ask. ## What you can build in a Page Anything that started as a chat answer but deserves to become a document: a draft report, a meeting brief, a project plan, a set of collected notes pulled together from several chat responses, a first pass at a policy or one-pager. It's also where a piece of work that grows over several sessions belongs: a proposal you add to across a few days of chats with Copilot, rather than one single answer, is exactly the kind of thing a Page is built to hold. If you'd otherwise copy-paste a Copilot answer into Word to keep working on it, that's exactly the moment to send it to a Page instead. A concrete case: say a colleague asks Copilot in Teams to draft talking points for Thursday's client call. The moment more than one person needs to read or edit that draft, it's a candidate for a Page, since anyone in the meeting can add their own point directly onto the same document instead of emailing edits back and forth. ## Multiplayer: the part Claude doesn't do This is where Pages genuinely differ from Claude's Artifacts. A Page isn't just yours to keep. You can share it with colleagues and co-edit it together in real time, the same way you'd co-edit a Word or OneNote document. Everyone sees the same Page, can add to it, and can keep chatting with Copilot from inside it to extend or revise the content. If a piece of work is genuinely a team effort, like building a proposal together or drafting shared meeting notes, a Page is built for that in a way a private chat reply isn't.
A chat answer vs. a PageTwo panels. Left, a chat answer: lives in the conversation, scrolls away as you keep chatting, good for quick answers. Right, a Page: a persistent, editable canvas with Edit, Share and Live controls -- keep it, edit it, co-edit it live.A chat answer vs. a PageA chat answerLives in the conversation.Scrolls away as you keep chatting.A PageEditShareLiveA persistent, editable canvas.Keep it, edit it, co-edit it live.vs
## How to create one, and edit it afterwards After Copilot gives you a response worth keeping, look for the option to add it to a Page (in Copilot Chat, this shows up alongside the response). That opens the canvas with the response already in it. From there you're not limited to asking Copilot for changes: you can edit the text directly on the Page, the way you'd edit any document, or keep chatting with Copilot to extend or rework it. Pages also keep a version history, so if an edit, yours or a colleague's, goes the wrong way, you can open an earlier version and restore it rather than reconstructing it from memory. That history is also useful for more than fixing mistakes: it's how you check what a colleague actually changed, the same way Word's own version history lets you see who edited what and when, rather than just noticing a document looks different with no record of why. ## When to reach for a Page If you'll edit it, keep it, or work on it with someone else, send it to a Page. If it's a one-off answer you just needed right now, leave it in the chat. When in doubt, ask yourself whether you'd otherwise be tempted to paste the answer into a Word doc just to keep it safe; if the answer is yes, send it to a Page instead and save yourself the copy-paste. ## Try it Ask Copilot Chat to draft a short pre-meeting brief for an upcoming meeting. Add the response to a Page, edit it directly (tighten a paragraph, add a questions section), then share the Page with a colleague and see their edits appear. Open the version history afterwards and see your first draft still sitting there. ## Key terms [Copilot Pages](/glossary#copilot-pages), [Multiplayer collaboration](/glossary#copilot-pages), [Version history](/glossary#version-history), [Copilot](/glossary#copilot)