Basics of AI and use of Copilot

Goals

Knowing how to use Copilot

Prerequisite

Having a Copilot licence (provided for training)

Contents

Introduction to artificial intelligence 

• Understanding the basics of artificial intelligence 

• Applications of AI in various sectors 

• Copilot in the field of AI 

Writing effective prompts: the keys to prompting 

• Fundamental concepts of prompting  

• Understanding language models  

• Techniques for writing effective prompts  

• Prompts adapted to Copilot 

Copilot in Edge (free) 

• Go to: https://copilot.microsoft.com 

• Use the button provided by the standard Edge interface 

• Generate a summary of the web page 

• Focus on a specific section of the page 

• Write a LinkedIn post from the web page 

• Compose an email from the generated post 

Copilot for M365 

• Introduction to Copilot for Microsoft 365 

• Licensing 

• Exploring the possibilities with Copilot for Microsoft 365 

• Using Microsoft Graph to access company data 

• Querying documents, colleagues or company data 

Copilot in Excel 

• Introduction 

• Insights 

• Highlight filtering and sorting 

• Calculate 

• Analyse 

• Copilot Lab prompts

Copilot in Word 

• Create a draft 

• Generate additional content 

• Generate from a file 

• Rewrite 

• View in table format 

• Summarising the document 

Copilot in Powerpoint 

• Creating a presentation 

• Working with pre-existing templates 

• Designer 

• Adding slides 

• Creating from a file 

• Summarising 

Copilot in Outlook 

• Coaching with Copilot 

• Write an e-mail with a summary of activities 

• Include greetings in the e-mail 

• Choose the generation options: formal, long, etc. 

• Use Copilot to write emails, documents and presentations by providing specific prompts.

Copilot in Teams 

• Review the meeting summary with Copilot 

• Access the meeting recording and speakers 

• Use annotations provided by artificial intelligence 

• Use Copilot to ask additional questions 

• Request a meeting summary 

• Write a meeting summary to send by email 

Copilot in OneNote 

• Use Copilot to generate note summaries 

• Organising notes 

• Create to-do lists and action items 

• Generate meeting minutes from notes 

Copilot in Loop 

• Using Copilot to generate summaries of collaborative work 

• Organising tasks and projects 

• Creating to-do lists and action items

Security and confidentiality with Copilot 

• What Microsoft says about confidentiality and protection 

• How to guarantee data security when using Copilot with EDP (Enterprise Data Protection) 

• Managing Copilot history