You’ve been hearing about Copilot everywhere, but don’t know where to start?
Here are 5 practical ways you can use Microsoft Copilot every day to save time.
Thanks to these 5 video tutorials selected for you – simple, effective and directly applicable – you can easily integrate them into your daily routine.
1. Summarize Teams emails and discussions
Copilot can generate a summary of exchanges in Outlook or Teams to quickly extract key points and actions to be taken.
- In Outlook: open a conversation, then click on “Summarize by Copilot”.
- In Teams: access a discussion or channel, then ask Copilot for a summary (e.g. “Summarize my recent unread messages from [name]”).
Copilot works on a 30-day history, but does not summarize images or files. It can also prepare your meetings by summarizing related exchanges.
2. Generate meeting minutes
During or after a Teams meeting, Copilot can provide a summary of important decisions and actions.
- During: Open Copilot in the meeting and it will take notes automatically.
- After: go to the “Summary” tab of the meeting, select Copilot, then “Summarize meeting”.
You can adjust granularity or target a specific section of the meeting for greater precision.
3. Optimize e-mail management in Outlook
Copilot offers drafts based on suggestions or customized instructions. For example:
- Suggest a call
- Request more information
- Responding to a complaint
- Describing a product or service
Copilot can also automatically insert context-sensitive e-mail templates to speed up your responses.
4. Analyze data in Excel
Copilot lets you analyze your tables without the need for advanced expertise.
- Format your data in table form
- Click on “Copilot” in the ribbon, then choose “Analyse”.
- Ask a question (e.g. “What are the average sales by region?”) or select a suggestion.
Copilot can generate graphs, pivot tables, formulas and even use Python for advanced analysis.
5. Create PowerPoint presentations from existing documents
Copilot can generate a presentation from a Word or PDF document:
- In PowerPoint, open Copilot and choose “Create a presentation from [file]”.
- Select your document and Copilot will create slides based on the content.
- You can then adjust the visuals, add images or change the theme.
Tip: Copilot works particularly well with well-structured Word documents.
