• Smart paste now supports images – paste screenshots or handwritten content, and AI will extract relevant details for your form.
• Expanded file support – add .txt, .csv, .docx, .pdf, or image files (.png, .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp) to get inline AI suggestions.
• New form fill toolbar – review and manage AI-generated suggestions more easily.
• More control for makers – makers can now specify fields that should always require human input, ensuring AI assistance focuses on where it’s most valuable.

Let’s explore how these updates can help you work smarter.

Paste images and extract insights

Have a handwritten note, a scanned document, or a screenshot with key data? Now, smart paste can extract text and tables from images and suggest relevant field values—no retyping needed.

Where this helps:

• Extract invoice details from a receipt image to log expenses effortlessly.
• Update inventory records by pasting images of handwritten stock counts or delivery receipts.
• Convert maintenance logs or inspection checklists from images into structured form data.
• Digitize whiteboard notes from a sales planning session to update an opportunity record.
• Capture contact details by pasting a scanned business card into a CRM form.

Smart paste can be enabled using the Smart paste setting in Power Platform admin center by going to Environments > [select an environment] > Settings > Product > Features.

Add files to fill forms

Adding a document makes data entry even easier. Simply select or drag and drop a supported file type—.txt, .csv, .docx, .pdf, or image files (.png, .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp)—and AI will intelligently extract key details to populate your form, reducing manual effort.

Files is only available when the new form fill toolbar experience is enabled, see how to enable both in the section below.

New form fill toolbar: manage suggestions with ease

We’ve made it easier than ever to see where AI-generated suggestions come from and manage them effortlessly. The new form fill toolbar provides:

• A clear view of all AI suggestions in the form.
• Sources of suggestions, helping you understand where the data is coming from.
• A real-time count of open suggestions, allowing you to track pending reviews at a glance.

The new form fill toolbar and files capabilities can be enabled using the Form fill assist toolbar setting in Power Apps app designer when editing a model-driven app.

More control for makers: define where AI assists

While AI form fill assistance speeds up data entry, some fields should always require human input. Based on your feedback, we’ve introduced a way for makers to opt specific fields out of AI suggestions by configuring the Allow form fill assistance setting in column properties.

Try it out and share your feedback!

These enhancements are available in production today—so try pasting images, uploading files, and using the new toolbar to streamline your workflow. And as always, we’d love to hear how these updates help you—share your feedback and help shape what’s next for AI data entry!

Learn more at Use Copilot’s form fill assistance feature in model-driven apps – Power Apps | Microsoft Learn

¹ Internal Microsoft testing conducted in November 2024 on sample of 22 subjects.

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Introducing smart paste

Smart paste is the latest capability of Copilot form fill assistance for model-driven apps, designed to make the time-consuming and frustrating task of form filling easier. Imagine this: you have some text in an email, document, or note that you need to enter into a form. Instead of manually typing it all in, you can now simply copy the text to your clipboard. Without selecting any specific field, just click the smart paste button or use the standard paste shortcut (CTRL+V or CMD+V). Copilot will reason over the form and the pasted text to suggested what text could be used to fill specific fields, and provides suggestions inline in the form. You can review and accept the suggestions that work for you—as always, nothing gets saved until you confirm. Ignoring suggestions will automatically discard it, and we are also introducing a new capability to clear all suggestions in the form.

And if you prefer the traditional way, you can still paste directly into a specific field by clicking on it first and then pasting.

You can use smart paste in your model-driven apps by updating the following two settings in Power Platform admin center, under Settings > Product > Features > AI form fill assistance section:

1. In the Enable this feature for field, make sure that All users immediately is selected.
2. Set Enable smart paste (Preview) to On.

Discover the suggestion source using new citations

We are introducing a new capability that adds even more transparency to Copilot’s suggestions. With the new citations, you can now learn more about the source of the suggestions provided by Copilot. These citations clearly identify the source, for example “Records you have updated recently” or “Clipboard”, giving you more clarity and confidence in the suggestions you receive.

Form fill assistance now available in quick create forms

Form fill assistance, including the new smart paste capability, is now available in quick create forms as well. This means you can enjoy the same time-saving benefits across even more of your forms.

Expansion to 21 languages

Form fill assistance in model-driven apps is rolling out in the following 21 languages in addition to English (US):

1. Arabic
2. Chinese (Simplified)
3. Czech
4. Danish
5. Dutch
6. Finnish
7. French
8. German
9. Greek
10. Hebrew
11. Italian
12. Japanese
13. Korean
14. Norwegian (Bokmål)
15. Polish
16. Portuguese (Brazil)
17. Russian
18. Spanish
19. Swedish
20. Thai
21. Turkish

We want to hear from you

Learn more about this feature in the documentation. We look forward to you trying out these capabilities in your model-driven apps and sharing your feedback through the form fill assistance survey in your model-driven app.

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Form fill assistance in your favorite Dynamics 365 model-driven apps

Copilot assistance for form filling uses AI to generate suggestions for fields in main forms, based on your app usage and data patterns and what’s already in the form. You can simply accept the suggestions that suit your needs. And don’t worry, nothing gets saved until you confirm it.

This feature is now available in your favorite Power Apps and Dynamics 365 model-driven apps. See it in action below in Dynamics 365 Customer Service and Dynamics 365 Sales:

Manage form fill assistance in admin center

Admins can manage whether form fill assistance is available or not in their model-driven apps through Power Platform admin center using the AI form fill assistance setting rolling out worldwide this week.

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Form fill assistance in model-driven apps

Imagine filling out forms with just a few clicks or keystrokes. Form fill assistance is a powerful feature that helps you complete your forms in model-driven apps faster and easier. It uses AI to generate suggestions for fields in main forms, based on how you use the app, what information is already in the form, and your common data patterns. You can simply accept the suggestions that suit your needs. And don’t worry, nothing gets saved until you confirm it. 
With form fill assistance, you can breeze through forms and get more done in your model-driven apps by getting handy suggestions right where you need them – see it in action below: 

Learn more

Form fill assistance in model-driven apps is rolling out gradually in the February monthly channel release and early access for 2024 release wave 1. It is available in English language model-driven apps on the web with “New Look” enabled. 
Learn more about this feature in the documentation.  

We want to hear from you

Share your ideas and thoughts through Power Apps Ideas and Power Apps Community Forum.

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Today, we are announcing the availability of Copilot for users of model-driven apps and a major expansion of Copilot control’s capabilities in canvas apps. Now, all Power Apps can be intelligent apps. Makers can easily build apps to boost productivity for users, powered by next-generation AI in an intuitive experience.

Introducing Copilot in model-driven apps

Today, we are rolling out Copilot for users of model-driven apps. Copilot helps users get insights about their data and helps them navigate the app simply through conversation in natural language.

Copilot in model-driven apps is releasing as part of the Monthly Channel. This enables Copilot to evolve more rapidly based on your feedback, bringing value in smaller and quicker increments instead of making you wait for twice-yearly updates.

To learn more about Copilot in model-driven apps, please read: Add Copilot to model-driven apps

Major boost to Copilot control in canvas apps

Since the release of Copilot control in March, we have received a resounding and clear request: support larger datasets! We heard you, and today we are rolling out an important update: now when you connect the Copilot control to Dataverse, you can ask questions about really large tables – no size limits.

Pro tip: PowerFx can help you do more with Copilot control. In the example below, Copilot control’s ‘SelectedItems’ property is used to display details about Copilot’s answer in a gallery.

To learn more about Copilot in canvas apps, please read: Add Copilot control to canvas apps

Your feedback makes Copilot better

Are you curious about how to steer the future of Copilot? Do you have innovative ideas on how to enhance its capabilities? We want to hear from you! Your input plays a pivotal role in shaping the evolution of Copilot. In addition to the current ability for makers to provide feedback about Copilot control in canvas apps, today we are rolling out two new ways to share your voice:

1. Share your ideas and thoughts through this Power Apps community forum post
2. Share your feedback directly as you use Copilot in both model-driven and canvas apps

Availability

Today’s announcements are available in the United States and English language. While Copilot for app users in model-driven and canvas apps remains in preview, we are aware about the importance and urgency of equipping organizations to leverage these latest powerful capabilities in production. If you would like to use these capabilities in production today, please reach out to us with details about your use via Microsoft Support to request production support.

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Spelling check

If a search query is misspelled, relevance search will attempt to find close matches based on what was typed.

Recognizing common abbreviations and acronyms

Relevance search will recognize common abbreviations and acronyms in search queries. The abbreviations and acronyms supported will grow over time.

Better understanding

Relevance search will try to better understand the query by applying common knowledge, recognizing frequently used synonyms, and limited natural language understanding that will expand over time.

These capabilities are available today in all Dataverse environments in the public cloud with English as their base language, and relevance search enabled. No additional configuration is required. We plan to support additional languages in the future.

You can help improve these relevance search capabilities by providing feedback through this option on the search results page:

And by enabling the optional “Improve Relevance Search results” setting located in the Power Platform admin center (Settings > Product > Features):

Review the documentation for more information about relevance search. If you are enabling relevance search for the first time, you can review how to configure searchable data here.

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The API can power three types of search experiences:

• Search results page
• Suggestions-as-you-type

  

• Autocomplete

  

Additionally, capabilities like term boosting, fuzzy search, proximity search, and regex search made possible through Lucene query syntax help you create highly customized search experiences. All results are based on the environment’s configured entity data and what the user has permission to access.

The following documentation provides details about the Relevance Search API: Search across entity data using Relevance Search. Note that it is accessible through Web API only at this time.

We look forward to learning about how you leverage these new capabilities!

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