What is Microsoft Copilot?

Working with Microsoft Copilot

Susanth Sutheesh

Copilot Solution Engineer, Microsoft

An intro card for the instructor, Susanth Sutheesh, a Copilot Solution Engineer at Microsoft

Working with Microsoft Copilot

What you'll learn

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  • What Copilot is, and how it can help
  • The GCSE framework for writing better prompts
  • Copilot inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
  • Building your own agents

 

A four-step course roadmap: the Copilot logo, the G, C, S and E framework tiles, the Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook logos, and an agent symbol

Working with Microsoft Copilot

Same name, different products

 

The consumer Copilot sign-in page at copilot.microsoft.com, offering sign-in with Microsoft, Apple, or Google

 

  • Work account - Microsoft 365 Copilot, on the web or inside Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Personal account - the consumer version, on the web only
  • Licensed separately: Security Copilot, Copilot Studio
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What Copilot is made of

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  • A large language model handles the language
  • Grounding connects it to real information
  • Work IQ is the part that reaches your work content
  • It only sees what your permissions already allow

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A three-layer stack: large language models handle the language, grounding reaches the web and your organization through Microsoft Graph and Work IQ, and everything stays bounded by the permissions you already hold

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Where Copilot shows up

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Copilot drafting an email inside Outlook, with the Copilot pane showing the request and refinement options

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  • The Copilot app at m365.cloud.microsoft

  • Inside the apps themselves

    • Word: draft and rewrite
    • Excel: analyze data and build charts
    • PowerPoint: build and reshape decks
    • Outlook: draft replies and shorten threads
    • Teams: recap meetings
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Copilot isn't included by default

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  • Some Copilot comes with eligible Microsoft 365 licenses - but web data only
  • The paid add-on also reaches your files, email and meetings
  • Your license decides what Copilot can reach

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Two in-product labels, each with a Work badge: one reading M365 Copilot (Basic) and one reading M365 Copilot (Premium), the paid add-on, highlighted in green

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Your work data stays protected

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The Copilot chat page signed in with a work account, showing the Work badge and license label

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  • Prompts and responses are covered by Enterprise Data Protection
  • Your content is not used to train public models
  • Your data is kept in your own region
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You can choose the model

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  • Pick a model from different providers in the selector
  • Or ask for a quick response or a deeper reasoning pass
  • Switching model does not change your data protection
  • Your admin decides which models you see

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The Copilot model selector showing quick and deeper reasoning options alongside models from different providers

Working with Microsoft Copilot

Let's practice!

Working with Microsoft Copilot

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