Microsoft Copilot is a new and disruptive solution that easily brings AI into your organisation. Copilot for Microsoft 365 is the obvious starting point for many organisations, it brings Copilot into the productivity tools you use every day, helping you with Teams, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and more.
As this is a new technology, helping your users get the most out of it is going to be a critical driver of success. When looking to get started here are 10 effective prompts for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365.
- Recap a meeting in Microsoft Teams – You can ask Copilot to recap your meeting to you. Copilot can keep track of the key topics of the meeting and any action items and send you a summary of these in an email, allowing you to stay focused on the meeting.
- Summarise an email thread in Outlook – When you are trying to catch up on emails and there is a long email chain it can be hard to make sense of it and get caught up. With Copilot you can use it to quickly summarise the thread.
- Draft an email in Outlook – Copilot can be used to generate an email for you. You can ask it to write a reply to an email or if you tell it to email person X about Project Y it can draft an email for you.
- Summarise a document – Save time reading long documents with the ability to summarise the document and highlight the key areas. You can even drill down for more details on the area that matters to you.
- Tell me about a topic/project – This is a useful way to quickly get you up to speed on something new. Copilot will pull together information from multiple sources to give you a clear overview of the topic or project.
- Generating some ideas – When you are looking for some inspiration and to boost your creativity, Copilot can be a great help. Asking Copilot for say 10 new product ideas or 5 ways to solve this problem etc, can be a great way to inspire a solution in yourself.
- Help you write in Word – Asking Copilot to help you write something can be a great way to get started on a document. You can ask it to write the amount of words you need with a little prompting and away it goes.
- What did they say? When you are struggling to remember something, someone said whether it be an email on a Teams meeting or chat. You can simply ask Copilot and it’ll find it.
- How do you do things in Excel – Excel can be tricky, and some people struggle with the formula side of things. Now with Copilot you just tell it in words what you want it to do, and it will write the formula for you.
- Translate something – As businesses become more international using copilot to quickly translate anything for you can be a quick and easy way to communicate across multiple languages.
There you have it, 10 effective prompts you can quickly start to see value from Copilot for Microsoft 365. If your organisation is looking at Microsoft Copilot, then visit our Copilot services to understand how we can help or contact us via our website.
