Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
Things are constantly being updated in the Microsoft Copilot offering, and it’s not unusual to see Microsoft retire or alter specific features as time progresses. In this retirement, Microsoft is removing some of the Copilot menu options when you are looking at the File Explorer menu, and replacing it with a single Ask Copilot option. Here’s what that looks like…
One of the Outlook features that I used to like was the ability to have Copilot automatically prioritize my inbox. It would learn as it went along, and you’d find new emails getting up or down arrows as it attempted to help manage new emails. Unfortunately, Microsoft has decided to retire that feature, so you won’t be seeing it any longer. Here’s the Microsoft messaging on the retirement…
When trying to use Copilot in OneNote in the not-too-distant past, I found that the results were less-than-helpful. It seemed like the options were limited, and it had issues trying to find the content I was trying to focus on. I decided to give it another try today, and it is SO much better. Here’s a sample of what I was able to do…
If you’re in a Microsoft Teams chat with a person or a group, you may want to use Copilot to get more context on what someone said or what was discussed. You can do that by using the Ask Copilot option on the highlighted content. Here’s how that works…
If you set up SharePoint pages on a regular basis, you are probably familiar with the SharePoint Button web part. It’s usually used to store a link that can be clicked. However, there are some new options for the button, including one to open Copilot in SharePoint. Here’s how you can set that up…
It’s one thing to be able to use Copilot to help you build a PowerPoint presentation… great graphics, appropriate wording and content, speaker notes, etc… but once it’s done, is it really going to help you deliver your message to your audience? You might want to start using the Review this presentation prompt in Copilot when you have your presentation open in the PowerPoint client. Here’s the type of information you can get from it…
Within the last week or so, I started seeing a new Copilot feature in New Outlook/Outlook on the web. It’s a clickable link at the top of your Focused inbox to get a Morning Briefing. Here’s how that works and what it looks like…
On the Microsoft Copilot side, there’s a bit of a switch involving the Learning Coach agent. It’s going to be replaced with the Learning agent. Here’s the Microsoft announcement…
It seems like Microsoft likes to move the Copilot icon around in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint every few months. But a colleague of mine noticed an update that allows you three choices as to where that icon ends up. Here’s how that feature works and what it looks like…
