Generate new ideas with Microsoft Copilot

Like an assistant, Copilot understands your priorities and your organization. Ask questions and Copilot will interact with your content—across your files, meetings, chats, emails, and the web.

Copilot can give you a head start on some of your most complex or tedious tasks. See how, with four scenarios where Copilot’s key features can help you get the important work done, faster:

Quickly get up to speed on projects.

Create summaries and lists of key points in a flash. Copilot puts all your meeting, chat, and email histories within instant reach.
Try entering the prompt, ‘Summarize emails about [X project]’. Or task Copilot with distilling down ideas or action items from a Teams chat, Word document, or
PowerPoint deck.
You can then use those results to drill down even further. As in, ‘Tell me more about [a specific aspect of the project]’, or ‘Create a bulleted list of all my action items from these emails’

Collate information and insights across all your content.

There's no need to dig through piles of documents and communications for the information you need. Copilot can do the heavy lifting.
Use the prompt ‘Explain the key differences between [product] and [product]’ to send Copilot to work, gathering information from across your applications—in seconds.
Translate that information into the format you prefer, by prompting something like ‘Turn this into a table and add a row for [subject]’, or ‘Turn this into a 2-minute elevator pitch I can use with a potential customer’.

Create new documents from multiple sources.

Copilot isn’t limited to referencing a single document. Pull data from multiple places and tie it together in a new document that you can work from.
To use multiple files in the Copilot prompt, type something like ‘Look at [Doc 1] and [Doc 2], and identify 3-4 common themes’.
Then follow up with Copilot to make your results pop:
- Create a catchy but relevant title for each theme
- Add a summary for each theme
- Turn into a table, with an example for each theme
- Now write this script in Spanish.

Prepare for upcoming meetings.

Stay ahead of your next meeting by letting Copilot do the legwork, so you can focus on creating impact.
Try the prompt, ‘Help me get ready for my next 1:1 with my manager by summarizing recent conversations with them’.
Then ask Copilot to go even deeper, so you can arrive at your meeting feeling prepared and confident:
- Categorise these into themes
- What were the open items from last week’s meeting about [subject]
- Summarise emails where I was mentioned recently. Make it detailed, highlighting the sender and categorising by topic of the email.