Microsoft 365 Copilot for Beginners: Prompts & Everyday Work

Learn how to use Microsoft 365 Copilot for everyday work, from writing better prompts to summarizing documents, creating presentations, analyzing spreadsheets, and drafting email replies. In this Parex Advisory Hour, enterprise architect Jarvis Funderburk walks through practical Copilot examples to help beginners get comfortable and existing users build their skills. In this session: • Explore the Copilot interface and ways to get started. • Build stronger prompts using goal, context, source, and expectations. • Get help improving your prompts with Prompt Coach. • Summarize and refine documents in Word. • Turn a document into a presentation with PowerPoint. • Summarize sales data and identify outliers in Excel. • Draft replies and summarize emails in Outlook. • Review how Teams meeting recaps can help capture decisions and follow-ups. The guiding principle: Copilot creates the first draft. You review, verify, and decide. Whether you’re new to AI or looking for practical ways to use Copilot at work, this guided walkthrough offers ideas you can try in your daily workflow. Feature availability and interfaces may vary by license and organizational settings. Already working with Parex? Open an advisory ticket through your portal or contact your technical account manager to discuss Copilot adoption, training, and proactive projects. Learn more: https://parextechnology.com/