Discover ways to use AI at work
Now let's find inspiration for more complex prompts, and discover practical applications for AI at work.
Explore ways to use AI at work
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is a shared chat experience within Microsoft 365 Copilot, and is available at no additional cost with eligible Microsoft 365 and Office 365 licenses. With a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, Copilot Chat becomes more powerful by connecting to your work data across Microsoft 365 applications like Teams, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel. This helps connect your questions with business information and apps, bringing out important details from the company's data.
Some common examples include:
- Outlook: Summarize the content of a large email thread.
- PowerPoint: Turn a text-heavy slide into concise bullet points for greater clarity.
- Word: Rewrite a paragraph in a different tone or style.
- Teams: Summarize meetings and chat threads.
Note
AI Agents, also known as virtual assistants, help you with different tasks based on what you need. They can handle routine tasks like scheduling meetings, managing emails, real-time data analysis, and personalized recommendations. In Microsoft 365, you can now build your own agents to fit your specific needs, making your daily tasks easier and more efficient.
To learn more, read Introducing Copilot agents and watch the short video Copilots & Agents.
The real power of Microsoft 365 Copilot comes from the flow of using it across apps. There are many use cases for Copilot in Microsoft 365, including in communications, HR, legal, IT, sales, project management, market research, finance, and more. The Copilot scenario library can help you get started.
The following table describes one sample functional scenario, Using Copilot to draft an internal communications post.
| Task | Description | Sample Prompt |
|---|---|---|
| Step 1: Summarize email | Use Copilot in Outlook to summarize an email about a new internal tool that will be rolling out to your organization so you can craft an announcement post to the internal community you manage. | "Summarize the announcement email and extract the most important bullet points to understand the value-add of the new tool." |
| Step 2: Conduct research | Prompt Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat to research more about this tool and surface similar announcements so you can align your internal announcement with similar organization communications. | "Search for announcements of new tools and review their tone and sentiment." |
| Step 3: Draft awareness post | Prompt Copilot Chat to generate a first draft of the awareness post, leveraging the research and pulling data from relevant emails about the tool. | "Draft an awareness post about the new internal tool based on emails about the tool from the past few weeks." |
| Step 4: Draft different variations | Ask Copilot Chat to provide several versions of the awareness post and choose your favorite one. | "Generate new versions of the post to have a few options to consider." |
| Step 5: Refine draft | Paste the copy into a Word document and use Copilot in Word to rewrite the post to match the writing style of your previous communications. | "Review this awareness post and look for gaps or sections that may be confusing for my audience. Then suggest updated copy." |
| Step 6: Add intro and outro | Use Copilot in Word to draft the intro and outro of the awareness post. | "Based on the content of the awareness post, draft a fun and engaging intro and outro for the comm that will get communicators excited about the new tool." |
In the following short video, learn how one communications manager uses Microsoft 365 Copilot to create and enhance announcement posts.
Now that you learned about generative AI, how to interact with it, and some ways to take your prompts further, let's practice prompting in Copilot.