You already own an AI assistant. It's hiding in Word.
Microsoft 365 Copilot doesn't live in a separate app. It works inside Word, Outlook, Teams and the rest — using content you already have access to. This bite shows you what it is and how to ask it for something useful.
By the end you'll be able to draft, summarise and ask — and write a prompt that gets a usable result.
A model, plus your own work data
Copilot puts two things together: a large language model that can write and summarise, and your own work content — emails, chats, files and meetings — reached through the Microsoft Graph. It only uses data you already have permission to see.
Most uses fall into those three verbs. Pick the verb, then open the app where the content already lives: a meeting → Teams, a document → Word, a spreadsheet → Excel, an email → Outlook.
Which prompt is the strong one?
A clear prompt has four parts: a goal, context, a source, and expectations. Pick the prompt that has all four.
Remember this one thing
Copilot is a language model plus your own work data. Pick a verb — draft, summarise, ask — and write a prompt with a goal, context, source and expectations. Then check the result.