It’s not unusual to have a long email thread that is looking like a meeting needs to occur. But trying to find all the people, summarize the agenda, and find the best possible time can be a real chore. However, using the Schedule with Copilot feature in New Outlook/Outlook on the web can most of that work for you. Here’s how that works…
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Custom Copilot Draft Instructions for New Outlook/Outlook on the web
One of the best features of Copilot is that it can help you draft emails and replies based on custom instructions you provide Copilot in the New Outlook and/or Outlook on the web settings. Here’s how you can update those instructions and how it works…
Opening your Copilot prompt output in Microsoft Word
When you’re using agents like Researcher in Microsoft Copilot, you can end up with a LOT of output… pages of it. It’s likely that you’ll want to put that into a file like a Word document, but just doing copy and paste may lose some of the formatting and fidelity. An easy way to get that into Word is to use the Open In Word option. Here’s what that looks like…
Providing reference images when asking Copilot for an image
When you’re on the Copilot home page, you can prompt it to give you an image that you can use for your project or page. But as with all prompts, you may not give it enough context or information to get what you want. One way to fix that is to provide a reference image in your prompt. Here’s what that looks like…
Getting a document summary in web-based Microsoft Word
If you are looking at a large document in the browser-based version of Microsoft Word, you might feel a bit overwhelmed when it comes to getting an overall understanding of what it contains. Copilot can help with a Summary at the top of the document, along with a variety of options to tailor your overview to what you need. Here’s what that looks like…
Using Copilot in OneNote
If you use OneNote, you no doubt have a lot of information locked away in there. However, it might be … More
Running scheduled prompts in Copilot Chat
As a regular user of Copilot, you may have certain prompts that you run every day, such as “summarize my inbox” or “review my calendar”. You can save those prompts and run them manually, but now you have an additional option… setting them up as a scheduled prompt. Here’s what that looks like and how it works…
Using the Copilot OneDrive life item icon to get file information
When you’re scrolling through your OneDrive and you see a file that looks interesting, you may not be thrilled to have to dig through the document manually to figure out what it’s talking about. But by using the Copilot icon on the document library line item, you can get summaries, FAQs, and audio overviews. Here’s how that works…
Extracting text from an image using Copilot
It’s not uncommon that you have a picture of something that includes text, and you really want to be able to use that text in an email or document. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the way to go, but do you have any software to do that? You do if you have Copilot! Here’s how that works…