Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
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…
The more that Copilot knows about you, the more helpful and detailed it can be over time. One setting in the Personalization area can help immensely… Chat History. Here’s how that works…
While the act of entering a prompt for Microsoft Copilot is easy, it’s not always so easy to come up with prompt ideas that could help you improve your work. In other words, you don’t know what you don’t know. Here’s a way to use Copilot to get ideas for prompts that might work out well for you, and give you ideas you hadn’t even considered. Here’s how that looks…
If you are using Microsoft Copilot from the Copilot home page (https://m365.cloud.microsoft/), you’ll notice there are a few changes in the layout. It’s not major, but it’s good to know what you’ll see before you see it. 🙂
There have been a number of people looking forward to the Planner Agent in Copilot, and it’s finally available for all Planner levels! Here’s how to find it and a simple example of how to use it…
When you’re working with Copilot in Microsoft Teams or a web browser, you can save your prompts so that it’s easy to use them repeatedly. But it feels like Microsoft changed the way you get to the Copilot Prompt Gallery lately. If you’re having problems on how to find your saved prompts, here’s how that works…
Copilot has some interesting ways to handle personalization when you want it to aways respond in certain ways. One of those techniques is Saved Memories, and you can pass along those memories in the middle of having an ongoing chat. Here’s how that works…
One of the recent Copilot changes is the ability to copy AI-generated tables from Copilot and paste them in other M365 applications. I guess I just assumed that would always be possible, but I had never tried it before. Here’s how it works…
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…
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