Microsoft 365 Copilot Shorts: 20 Skills in 20 Minutes
18mBeginner2026-02-05
Authors

Mike Tholfsen
Course details
Learn how Microsoft 365 Copilot can boost your day-to-day productivity with practical, hands-on demonstrations. Maximize Copilot’s capabilities across Copilot Chat, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams using advanced features like Agent Mode, custom instructions, file grounding, and Copilot Pages. Discover the power of specialized agents like Researcher and Analyst to tailor AI assistance to meet your workflow needs. Find out how to automate routine tasks, enhance your data insights, and create compelling multimedia content with ease. Practice strategies to integrate Copilot efficiently into your daily work environment, leading to measurable productivity improvements and build up the confidence to implement these skills and integrate them strategically in your workflows. This course is suited for all Microsoft 365 Copilot users, as well as learning and development professionals aiming to upskill in AI applications.
Learning objectives
Apply Copilot across core Microsoft 365 applications to automate routine tasks and enhance productivity in Copilot Chat, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams through practical, hands-on techniques.
Utilize advanced Copilot features including Agent Mode, custom instructions, file grounding, and Copilot Pages to personalize AI assistance and adapt it to specific workflow requirements.
Leverage specialized Copilot agents (Researcher and Analyst) and extended capabilities such as image/video creation, scheduled prompts, and meeting facilitation to address diverse professional needs.
Integrate Copilot strategically into daily workflows by implementing learned techniques across the Microsoft 365 environment to achieve measurable productivity improvements in day-to-day work.
Learning objectives
Apply Copilot across core Microsoft 365 applications to automate routine tasks and enhance productivity in Copilot Chat, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams through practical, hands-on techniques.
Utilize advanced Copilot features including Agent Mode, custom instructions, file grounding, and Copilot Pages to personalize AI assistance and adapt it to specific workflow requirements.
Leverage specialized Copilot agents (Researcher and Analyst) and extended capabilities such as image/video creation, scheduled prompts, and meeting facilitation to address diverse professional needs.
Integrate Copilot strategically into daily workflows by implementing learned techniques across the Microsoft 365 environment to achieve measurable productivity improvements in day-to-day work.
Concepts
Microsoft 365 Copilot Tips
- Setting custom instructions in Copilot
- Scheduling a prompt in Copilot
- Using file grounding in Copilot to improve responses
- Selecting different models in Copilot
- Creating images and video in Copilot
- Using Copilot Pages
- Relying on Copilot in Outlook as your chief of staff
- Drafting emails in Outlook with Copilot
- Setting custom Copilot instructions in Outlook
- Leveraging Copilot Agent Mode in Word
- Drafting a document with Copilot in Word
- Leveraging Copilot Agent Mode in Excel
- Leveraging Copilot Chat in Excel
- Using the Excel COPILOT Function
- Creating slides with Copilot in PowerPoint
- Editing an image with Copilot in PowerPoint
- Leveraging the Facilitator Agent in Teams
- Connecting Copilot chat to a Teams chat
- Using Copilot Researcher Agent
- Using Copilot Analyst Agent