Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
When you are looking at your Copilot Chat history, it could be a bit overwhelming to filter down what you’re looking for. Yes, you do have search, but what if you’re unsure of the keywords you used? Now you can use a filter pill to pare down the list to results from Agents or things you sent to Copilot Pages. Here’s how that works…
I ran across something interesting today when I was using Copilot. I found a feature called Temporary chat. Here’s what it looks like and why you might want to use it…
When you use the Researcher agent in Microsoft Copilot, it can generate a huge amount of information. But that might be overkill for what you want. Now you get the opportunity to give some guidance on how long the report should be. Here’s how that works…
It’s not uncommon to have prompts that you run reach morning (or at other parts of your day) to gather information that you will need for various events. Instead of triggering each of those prompts manually, you can schedule those prompts to run at a set time every day (with a few caveats). Here’s what that looks like…
In the world of AI, things move fast and furious. Following close on the heels of GPT-5.1 becoming the default in Copilot, you now have the ability to let Copilot use the latest and greatest Large Language Model (LLM)… GPT-5.2. Here’s how you can use that…
One thing I really dislike doing is trying to turn a lengthy email thread into a meeting. You have to find all the people who were involved in the thread, try to find a time that works for *most* of the people, try to somehow come up with a summary and agent… But with Copilot, you can let it do most of the heavy lifting for you, turning email threads into cohesive meetings with little effort. Here’s how that works…
For the last few months, when you are in Copilot Chat you’ve been asked if you want to try the GPT-5 model for your Copilot interactions. When you clicked the button, Copilot would look at your question and decide whether a quick response or a reasoning response would be best. Now you have the ability to expressly determine which type of interaction you want. Here’s what that looks like…
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…
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…
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