Course · 6 chapters
Copilot in Your M365 Apps
Operational deep dives into Copilot inside the five M365 apps you use every day — Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams. Concrete prompts, daily moves, and the failure modes specific to each app, calibrated to Agent Mode (the default since April 2026)
What you'll be able to do
- The 12-minute orientation across the five-app M365 Copilot deep-dive set — Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams. One grammar (Agent Mode + License/Graph/Labels + verify-before-trust); five surfaces; no required order. Pick the app where your day actually lives.
- From 47 emails to 5 minutes — agent-mode triage, thread summarization that doesn't lose detail, on-brand drafting, natural-language rules, and the verification habits that keep Copilot honest in your inbox starting Tuesday morning.
- From blank page to polished doc with Agent Mode (default since April 22, 2026 for paid M365 Copilot license holders) — prompt-first drafting grounded in your files, brand-voice rewrites that don't sound like a robot, long-form structure that survives partial regeneration, and the verification habits that keep Copilot honest in your memos and proposals starting Tuesday morning.
- From a 2,000-row export to a board-ready answer in 15 minutes — Agent Mode, the brand-new =COPILOT() cell function, Python in Excel, the 7 reliable data cleanups, and the verification habits that keep your numbers honest in spreadsheets starting Tuesday morning.
- From a 9am brief to a 4pm board deck — Agent Mode (default since April 22, 2026), the Brand Kit + Template combo that fixes the 'why do my Copilot slides look generic' problem, exact-hex-and-template-name prompts, per-slide refinement that doesn't cascade, and the four-check verification habit that keeps your deck on-brand starting Tuesday morning.
- From eight hours of meetings to five minutes of catch-up — the real-time mid-meeting questions, time-bounded prompts, action items with real owners, the v1.5 community prompt for high-fidelity analysis, and the verification habit that keeps Teams Copilot honest in your week starting Tuesday morning.
What's inside
- 1Per App: Start Here
The 12-minute orientation across the five-app M365 Copilot deep-dive set — Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams. One grammar (Agent Mode + License/Graph/Labels + verify-before-trust); five surfaces; no required order. Pick the app where your day actually lives.
- 2Outlook Copilot Deep Dive
From 47 emails to 5 minutes — agent-mode triage, thread summarization that doesn't lose detail, on-brand drafting, natural-language rules, and the verification habits that keep Copilot honest in your inbox starting Tuesday morning.
- 3Word Copilot Deep Dive
From blank page to polished doc with Agent Mode (default since April 22, 2026 for paid M365 Copilot license holders) — prompt-first drafting grounded in your files, brand-voice rewrites that don't sound like a robot, long-form structure that survives partial regeneration, and the verification habits that keep Copilot honest in your memos and proposals starting Tuesday morning.
- 4Excel Copilot Deep Dive
From a 2,000-row export to a board-ready answer in 15 minutes — Agent Mode, the brand-new =COPILOT() cell function, Python in Excel, the 7 reliable data cleanups, and the verification habits that keep your numbers honest in spreadsheets starting Tuesday morning.
- 5PowerPoint Copilot Deep Dive
From a 9am brief to a 4pm board deck — Agent Mode (default since April 22, 2026), the Brand Kit + Template combo that fixes the 'why do my Copilot slides look generic' problem, exact-hex-and-template-name prompts, per-slide refinement that doesn't cascade, and the four-check verification habit that keeps your deck on-brand starting Tuesday morning.
- 6Teams Copilot Deep Dive
From eight hours of meetings to five minutes of catch-up — the real-time mid-meeting questions, time-bounded prompts, action items with real owners, the v1.5 community prompt for high-fidelity analysis, and the verification habit that keeps Teams Copilot honest in your week starting Tuesday morning.
Earn a certificate
Complete all chapters to receive your certificate of completion.