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Microsoft 365 Copilot for Office Work

Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams and PowerPoint with Copilot.

Taught by Asha Karki · AI Product Engineer

What you'll learn

  • Explain the difference between Copilot Chat and Microsoft 365 Copilot and how each uses your work data
  • Summarise threads, draft replies and prepare for the day in Outlook with Copilot
  • Get meeting recaps, action items and answers about past meetings from Teams
  • Draft, rewrite and summarise documents in Word using referenced files
  • Analyse tables, generate formulas and create charts in Excel with Copilot prompts
  • Build a first-draft presentation from a document and apply data-governance good practice

About this course

Microsoft 365 Copilot is now rolled out across many organisations, and the difference between people who get real hours back and people who tried it once and gave up comes down to a handful of workflows. This beginner course is for office professionals, analysts, managers and assistants whose company has enabled Copilot and who want to use it well in the apps they live in. You will summarise and draft in Outlook, get meeting recaps and action items from Teams, draft and rewrite in Word using your own files as references, analyse data and build formulas in Excel, generate a first-draft deck in PowerPoint, and organise work in Copilot Pages. A final lesson explains how Copilot respects permissions, what data governance your IT team is managing and how to stay on the right side of it. No technical skills are required, only a Microsoft 365 account with a Copilot licence.

Course content

6 lessons
  1. 1What Microsoft 365 Copilot Is and How It Uses Your DataCopilot Chat versus the licensed Copilot, the Microsoft Graph, and why permissions decide what it can see.Preview
  2. 2Outlook: Triage, Drafting and Preparing for the DaySummarise threads, prioritise your inbox, draft replies with coaching and prepare for meetings.
  3. 3Teams: Meeting Recaps, Catch-Up and Chat SummariesTurn meetings into recaps and action items, catch up on what you missed and query past meetings.
  4. 4Word: Drafting, Rewriting and Summarising With Your FilesCreate first drafts from referenced documents, rewrite for audience and summarise long files.
  5. 5Excel: Analysis, Formulas and Charts With CopilotFormat data as a table, ask analytical questions, generate formula columns and chart the results.
  6. 6PowerPoint, Copilot Pages and Data GovernanceBuild a first-draft deck from a document, organise work in Pages and stay inside governance rules.