
Discover how Microsoft 365 Copilot and prompt engineering streamline office work, turning scattered Excel data and reports into a polished executive brief in minutes.
Explore where Copilot lives across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and the Copilot app, including ribbon, canvas, and quick launches, plus chat, agents, and licensing basics.
Explore Microsoft Copilot across personal, business, and enterprise plans, including a $30 per user add-on, usage limits, data integration, and a free trial to compare features.
Ensure data privacy with Microsoft 365 Copilot by using your existing permissions and staying within your tenant; it does not train external models.
Rise framework helps craft precise Copilot prompts by grounding analysis in role, intent, context, and output to produce actionable briefs.
Spot the six universal prompt patterns—compare, extract, transform, generate, analyze, decide—and apply them using the RISE framework and seven layers of prompt anatomy for real-world Copilot prompts.
Ground multi-file prompts in Copilot to synthesize cross-functional insights from marketing, sales, financials, and strategy for a CEO briefing; verify sources with citations and guardrails.
Master the four C's—context, clarity, conciseness, and constraints—to transform your AI interactions. Craft precise prompts that yield tailored, remarkable results.
Master two prompting frameworks, race and care, to orchestrate reliable AI prompts using the four pillars: context, clarity, conciseness, and constraints.
Explore how Copilot in Word, the intelligent document creator, works via the copilot pane and draft with copilot to generate outlines and drafts, reformat content, and maintain consistent tone.
Master multi-file grounding to synthesize two documents into a board-ready summary, organized by strategic teams and tied to strategic priorities, metrics, announcements, and Q&A insights for quarter four and 2026.
Learn how to use Copilot to edit existing content, rewrite with tone and structure refinements, convert data into tables, and create concise, polished documents.
Copilot auto-generates a top-line summary on open with brief, standard, or detailed depth, plus a copy button. Use Copilot chat to extract specific risks and mitigations for busy professionals.
Harness Copilot in Excel to answer James' questions in minutes by asking natural language queries about Q3 revenue, regional performance, win-loss analysis, and deal-size trends, using structured data and prompts.
Learn how Copilot generates weighted pipeline values and deal status flags in Excel, uses xlookup for robust lookups, applies conditional formatting, and explains formulas in plain English with quick verification.
Explore how to use Copilot for data cleaning, sorting, and categorization to extract themes, sentiment, and priorities from 90 customer feedback entries for effective product planning.
Learn to build pivot tables, charts, and a one-page dashboard in Excel with Copilot, turning quarterly marketing spend data into a clear ROI narrative.
Explore how Copilot in PowerPoint acts as a creative partner, generating decks from prompts or files, transforming designs, and adding slides, topics, notes, and audience-tailored content.
Transform a real document into Crest Flow 3.0's 15-slide investor deck using Copilot and the Novacrest template, grounding AI-native project intelligence with go-to-market-ready insights.
Copilot partners with you to create a complete professional PowerPoint presentation from scratch using Narrative Builder, templates, and prompts, delivering an outline and 27 slides.
Master drafting authentic emails in Outlook with Copilot, tailor tone coaching and structure, and triage inbox using document-grounded prompts, boosting daily productivity in real-world conversations.
Explore how co-pilot in Outlook summarizes email threads and highlights action items. Ask targeted questions and triage your inbox faster by clarifying disagreements and unresolved concerns.
Use Copilot's tone coaching to get feedback on tone, reader sentiment, and clarity, apply suggestions to refine emails, and ensure professional, purposeful communication before sending.
Learn to schedule and prep meetings in Outlook using Copilot to auto-create invites, agendas, and prep briefs from emails and calendars, unlocking time by streamlining planning.
Explore how Copilot in Teams quickly summarizes channel conversations, performs thread mining, and generates executive briefings using the Rice framework for action-oriented prep.
Explore how the CoPilot app's left sidebar agents section turns general chat into specialist tools like researcher and analyst for faster multi-source analysis and live web insights.
Create a custom internal HR agent using two documents, configure guardrails, and restrict sources to your own policy data to answer questions about benefits, leave, onboarding, and training programs.
Orchestrate a real-world project by turning Excel data into a narrative, a deck, and an Outlook delivery. Learn to use Copilot to manage four deliverables under a Monday deadline.
Learn how to use Excel and Copilot to diagnose quarterly performance, flag risk factors like net new MMR decline and LTV/CSE anomalies, and craft investor-ready narratives.
Turn data into a compelling investor narrative by planning structure, highlighting growth, and honestly framing risks around the quarter three inflection point toward a 28 million ARR path in 2026.
Convert a seven-page investor narrative into a 12-slide, board-grade deck with speaker notes, excluding the risk table, to target a 28 million ARR via SaaS metrics and strategic pillars.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is the biggest change to office work in years. But most people only scratch the surface, because nobody ever showed them how to use it properly. This course fixes that.
This is a practical, hands-on Microsoft Copilot course built for office professionals, not for developers and not for IT admins. If you spend your day in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, you will learn exactly how to turn Copilot into a teammate that saves you hours every single week and helps you produce noticeably better work.
You will master Microsoft 365 Copilot across every core app:
Copilot in Word: draft, rewrite, summarize, and transform documents in seconds
Copilot in Excel: analyze data, generate formulas, and build PivotTables and charts using plain English
Copilot in PowerPoint: turn a document into a polished, presentation-ready deck in minutes
Copilot in Outlook: tame your inbox, summarize long threads, and draft replies that sound like you
Copilot in Teams: capture meeting recaps, extract action items, and catch up on busy channels fast
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat: your cross-app command center for grounded, multi-source work
From there, we go into the 2026 frontier: Copilot Notebooks, Copilot Pages, Think Deeper extended reasoning, and building your own no-code Copilot Agents in Copilot Studio.
At the heart of everything is prompt engineering, the single highest-leverage skill in the AI era. You will learn a simple, repeatable framework, the RICE method (Role, Intent, Context, Expected output), plus grounding, the technique that lets you reference your own files, people, and meetings so Copilot works from your real data instead of guessing.
What makes this course different is how it is taught. Every lesson follows one connected, realistic business scenario: a simulated B2B software company preparing for a major funding round. You will not sit through abstract feature demos. You will follow real workflows, real documents, and real decisions, so your skills compound from the very first lesson all the way to a full capstone project.
The course is completely up to date as of the March 2026 Microsoft Copilot release, with the current interface, current feature names, and honest "real talk" moments about what Copilot still cannot do.
By the end, you will have your own Copilot playbook and the confidence to cut hours off your week, every week. If you are ready to stop reading about AI and actually start using it at work, enroll today and let's get started.