Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
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…
If you use OneNote, you no doubt have a lot of information locked away in there. However, it might be … More
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…
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…
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…
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