Free Training: Copilot for Microsoft 365: Boosting Productivity in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams
This course, led by Microsoft MVP Deb Ashby, teaches best practices for using Copilot across Microsoft 365 apps including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Teams, Whiteboard, OneNote, and Loop. It covers everything from data analysis and document drafting to email productivity and presentation creation, equipping you with practical skills to maximize Copilot's capabilities in everyday workflows.
Instructor: Deb Ashby
Released: 10/31/2024
Length: ~3 hours, 5 minutes
Platform: LinkedIn Learning
Skill Level: Beginner
Purpose: To teach users practical best practices for using Microsoft Copilot across the full Microsoft 365 ecosystem so they can boost productivity in apps like Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Teams, Whiteboard, OneNote, and Loop.
Copilot for Microsoft 365: Boosting Productivity in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams
This course, led by Microsoft MVP Deb Ashby, teaches best practices for using Copilot across Microsoft 365 apps including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Teams, Whiteboard, OneNote, and Loop. It covers everything from data analysis and document drafting to email productivity and presentation creation, equipping you with practical skills to maximize Copilot’s capabilities in everyday workflows.
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This course will provide the following:
- Clean Excel data
- Add formula columns
- Highlight cells: Conditional formatting
- Sort and filter data
- Analyze data with pivot tables and pivot charts
- Formatting data
- Challenge: Clean and organize a dataset
- Solution: Clean and organize a dataset
- Create a presentation from scratch
- Modify and organize existing presentations
- Create a presentation from an existing file
- Work with company‑branded templates
- Challenge: Create and organize a company‑branded presentation using a reference file
- Solution: Create and organize a company‑branded presentation using a reference file
- Draft and refine documents
- Rewrite and edit documents
- Summarize long documents and ask questions
- Challenge: Create and edit a tech newsletter
- Solution: Create and edit a tech newsletter
- Switch to new Outlook and locate Copilot options
- Draft a new message
- Coaching by Copilot: Write better emails
- Summarize message and draft a reply
- Organize and plan: Create rules and set an out of office
- Find files and ask questions
- Challenge: Respond to a complaint email from a customer
- Solution: Respond to a complaint email from a customer
- Get ahead in meetings with Copilot in Microsoft Teams
- Visualize thoughts with Copilot in Whiteboard
- Brainstorm ideas with Copilot in OneNote
- Unleash the power of Loop components
- Challenge: Create an itinerary in OneNote and add a Loop component
- Solution: Create an itinerary in OneNote and add a Loop component
