Microsoft 365 Copilot Masterclass: Copilot Crash Course

Welcome to "Mastering Microsoft Copilot: AI-Powered Productivity"! This comprehensive course is designed to equip you with the skills needed to utilize Microsoft Copilot, an advanced AI assistant integrated into Microsoft 365 applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams. Whether you're new to AI or looking to enhance your productivity with cutting-edge tools, this course is for you.

We begin with an introduction to Microsoft Copilot, covering its capabilities and the differences between the free and Pro versions. You'll learn how to access Copilot and explore its browser and sidebar interfaces, making it easy to get started.

The course dives into basic prompting techniques, including text insertion, classification, extraction, summarization, reasoning, and translation. You'll get hands-on experience with practical examples, ensuring you understand how to apply these techniques effectively.

Next, we delve into prompt engineering, teaching you how to create advanced prompts by defining identities, providing context, and specifying output tone and structure. This section is crucial for refining your interaction with AI and achieving desired outcomes.

For those using Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Excel, we offer dedicated sections on leveraging Copilot within these applications. You'll learn to create presentations from scratch or from outlines, draft and summarize documents, and analyze data with ease. Tutorials on the desktop sidebar, extracting data using multimodal GPT, and using the action assistant further expand your capabilities.

The course also addresses common issues, such as writing effective emails and summarizing conversations with Copilot in Outlook. With our guidance, you'll be able to use the coaching feature to enhance your communication skills.

By the end of this course, you'll have a thorough understanding of how to integrate Microsoft Copilot into your workflow, making your daily tasks more efficient and productive.