This is the single most common source of confusion in Copilot. Read this before anything else. THERE ARE TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT VERSIONS: FREE VERSION (copilot.microsoft.com) Free with any Microsoft account. Pulls from the internet only. Has no idea who you work for, what is in your inbox, or what meetings you have today. This is what most people use by accident and wonder why it does not connect to their work. PAID VERSION — Microsoft 365 Copilot ($30/user/month) Lives inside Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Connects to your actual work data — emails, files, meetings, SharePoint, calendar. This is the one worth learning. Requires your company to have purchased licenses. HOW TO TELL WHICH ONE YOU HAVE: Look for the Copilot icon in your Outlook or Teams ribbon at the top. If it is there, you have the paid version. You are ready to go. THE TOGGLE MOST PEOPLE MISS: Inside the paid version, there is a Web/Work toggle. Most people leave it on Web. Switch it to Work and suddenly Copilot can see your files, your emails, your meetings — everything in your Microsoft ecosystem. That one toggle change fixes 90% of the "Copilot doesn't know anything about my work" complaints. If you have the paid version and the toggle is on Work, you are set up correctly. Head to Course 1 and start your first workflow.

What is the one Copilot task you most want to get working this week? Could be: - Inbox triage in Outlook - Meeting recaps in Teams - A spreadsheet you have been putting off in Excel - A report you need to summarize in Word - A deck you need to build in PowerPoint Drop it below. I will personally reply with the exact prompt to use.

All 60 prompts organized by app are in Course 3 inside the Classroom tab. Go to Classroom → The Copilot Prompt Library Sections: - Outlook: 10 prompts - Teams: 10 prompts - Excel: 10 prompts - Word: 10 prompts - PowerPoint: 10 prompts - Copilot Chat: 10 research and strategy prompts Bookmark that course. You will use it every week.

This is your first weekly workflow drop. Every week a new workflow lands here. One app. One use case. One copy-paste prompt. This week: Outlook. OPEN OUTLOOK → CLICK COPILOT IN YOUR RIBBON → PASTE THIS: "Summarize my inbox from the last 48 hours. For each email that needs a response, tell me who it is from, what they need, and the deadline if there is one. Group the rest into: FYI only, waiting on someone else, and can ignore. Start with the most urgent item." TIME SAVED: 35-45 minutes every morning. Run it today. Then post your result in Wins and Results. Next week: Teams.

Welcome to Copilot Edge. Here is exactly what to do in your first 10 minutes: STEP 1: Go to the Classroom tab. Start with Course 1 — The Copilot Edge Quick-Start. Pick the app you spend the most time in and run that prompt before you close your laptop today. STEP 2: Introduce yourself below. Tell us: your role, which app you live in most (Outlook / Teams / Excel / Word / PowerPoint), and the one task you most want Copilot to handle for you. STEP 3: Bookmark the Prompt Library. Course 3 in the Classroom is 60 copy-paste prompts organized by app. You will come back to this every week. STEP 4: Check back every week. New workflows drop every week in the Weekly Workflows category. Live office hours are on the Calendar tab. One workflow. One real result. That is the whole goal. Work smarter. Stay irreplaceable. — Christy