Supercharge Your Productivity with Microsoft Copilot Micro-Credential

Supercharge Your Productivity with Microsoft Copilot Micro-Credential

Duration: 3-4 Hours

Description

Most people using Microsoft 365 Copilot are still treating it like a slightly smarter autocomplete inside Word. This session teaches it as a working partner across the tools professionals already use all day: drafting and editing in Word, building slides in PowerPoint, analyzing data in Excel, summarizing and triaging in Outlook, and catching up on missed meetings in Teams. Participants also get a first look at Copilot Chat for cross-app questions grounded in their own files and email, and Copilot Studio for building a simple custom agent without writing code.

Audience

This session is for non-technical professionals working in a Microsoft 365 environment — managers, analysts, coordinators, and anyone whose day runs through Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. No coding or AI background is needed.

Objectives

  • Use Copilot effectively inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams
  • Write prompts that get useful results from Copilot’s app-specific features
  • Use Copilot Chat to ask cross-app questions grounded in your own files and email
  • Build a simple custom agent in Copilot Studio for a repeatable team task

Prerequisites

No prior AI experience is required. Working familiarity with Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams) is expected.

Related AI Courses

See the full AI training roadmap and course directory for how this fits into a broader learning path.

Want a deeper, two-day immersive version of this material? See AI Fluency: Practical Copilot for Everyday Users. Using a different assistant day to day? See Supercharge Your Productivity with Claude Micro-Credential, Supercharge Your Productivity with Gemini Micro-Credential, or Supercharge Your Productivity with OpenAI Micro-Credential. Looking for the GitHub Copilot coding assistant instead? See Coding with GitHub Copilot Micro-Credential.

Course Outline

Module 1: The Foundations

  • Meet Copilot Across Microsoft 365
  • Mastering the Prompt Inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
  • Copilot in Outlook and Teams

Module 2: Practical Applications for the Busy Professional

  • Drafting and Redrafting in Word
  • Analyzing and Summarizing Data in Excel
  • Building a Deck in PowerPoint from a Document
  • Triaging Email and Catching Up on Meetings

Module 3: Advanced Concepts and Project Work

  • Copilot Chat: Cross-App Questions Grounded in Your Data
  • Building a Simple Agent in Copilot Studio
  • Lab – End-to-End Productivity Workflow Across Word, Excel, and Teams