Microsoft 365Your Microsoft 365 Copilot trial, one prompt a day. Four weeks and 18 real-world prompts across Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Copilot agents. Copy a prompt, open the app, tick it off.
One prompt a day, in the apps you already use
Each week has a theme and one prompt a day. Start anywhere.
Open the app and click the Copilot button. Type / to point Copilot at a file, person or meeting.
Mark it as tried and note roughly how much time it saved. We’ll add it up for you.
Everything you need for the trial lives here: all four weeks, every prompt and your progress. Bookmark this page and come back whenever you’re ready for the next one.
Summaries, catch-ups and drafted replies, so your inbox stops running your day.
Each week we tackle one real scenario where Microsoft 365 Copilot saves you time. This week is all about taming your inbox. Focus on one prompt a day: open Outlook (or click the Copilot button) and type it in.
Outlook
Summarise this email thread and list any action items for me.
Open a long thread and let Copilot catch you up.
Copilot Chat
Catch me up on anything I missed from /[person] this week.
Perfect after time off. Swap in a person or a project.
Outlook
Draft a reply that thanks them and proposes three times to meet.
Tweak Copilot’s draft before you send.
Outlook
Summarise this thread and draft a status update I can forward to my manager.
Turn a messy thread into a clean update.
Outlook
Write an out-of-office reply in the style of a movie trailer.
Share your favourite with a colleague.
Post your movie-trailer out-of-office in your team’s Copilot channel. Friendly competition is the fastest way to get everyone trying Copilot.
Auto recaps and action items, so you can actually be present.
This week, let your meetings do the note-taking. Copilot in Teams recaps discussions, captures action items and can even help you contribute in real time. One prompt a day: try them right inside your Teams meetings and chats.
Teams
Recap this meeting and list the key decisions and action items.
Use this in the meeting chat after a recorded or transcribed meeting.
Teams
I joined late. What have I missed so far?
Copilot answers privately during a live meeting; no one sees your prompt.
Teams
What questions should I ask to move /[project] forward?
Use mid-meeting to sharpen the conversation.
Teams
Draft a follow-up email from this meeting with owners and due dates.
Turn the recap straight into action.
Copilot Chat
Summarise today’s meetings as movie taglines.
Share the funniest with your team.
Ten prompts in, it’s a good time to talk. Book a free 15-minute check-in with IT.ie and we’ll help with anything that isn’t clicking yet.
Docs, decks and data: hours become minutes.
This week, create faster. Copilot drafts documents, builds decks and makes sense of data right inside Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Open the app, click the Copilot button and try one prompt a day.
Word
Write a first draft of /[document] based on /[file].
Start from a brief or notes, then refine.
PowerPoint
Create a presentation from /[document].
Give Copilot more detail, then polish the deck.
Excel
Summarise the key trends in this spreadsheet.
Ask follow-ups like “show this as a chart”.
Word
Summarise this document in three key points.
A fast way to grasp any long file. Works in other apps, too.
Copilot Chat
Design an image of [our team as superheroes] for our next deck.
Get creative with the style and share the result.
Use the “Time saved?” box on each prompt and we’ll add it up for you below. Real numbers from your team are what make the case for keeping Copilot.
Meet your new specialist teammates, and a few more tricks.
You’ve got the essentials. This final week introduces agents, purpose-built assistants that take on bigger, multi-step jobs, plus a couple more features that make Copilot feel like a teammate.
Researcher agent
Research [topic] and build a structured report I can share with my team.
Give it a meaty question; the Researcher agent shows its sources.
Analyst agent
Analyse /[spreadsheet] and give me the top 3 insights, plus anything unusual.
The Analyst agent reasons like a data scientist. No formulas required.
Copilot Pages
Create a Copilot Page from this answer so my team can build on it.
Pages are editable, shareable canvases from any Copilot response.
Copilot Cowork
Optional: only if your organisation has turned on Copilot Cowork for the trial.
Help me organise my inbox by reviewing my emails from Outlook. First, review my inbox from the last 24 hours and show me a summary: • Total number of emails and a rough breakdown • Any emails from my manager or my management chain • Any urgent emails (look at the subject, contents, and whether it is marked as high importance) Let’s do a basic triage of each email. Ask me before making any changes. After we complete the last 24 hours, offer to review the last few days (or weeks) of emails.
Cowork takes on the whole multi-step task in the background, then hands you a finished plan to share.
Your trial converts to paid licences automatically unless it is cancelled, and Microsoft needs 7 days’ notice. Email us your results and we’ll help you decide which users should keep Copilot.
Based on the prompts you’ve ticked off and the time you estimated for each one. Email it to IT.ie (or your manager) when you review the trial.
Champions are the people who show everyone else what Copilot can do. Finish the four weeks and you’re one of them.
Created by IT.ie, not Microsoft. These resources are produced by IT.ie to help our customers get more from Microsoft 365 Copilot. They are not official Microsoft material.
Stuck on something? These cover the questions we hear most during a trial. For anything else, call us free on 1800 353 353 or email hello@it.ie.
Look for the Copilot button in the ribbon of Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and in Teams meetings and chats. You can also use Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat at m365.cloud.microsoft/chat. Make sure you are signed in with your work account.
Your Copilot licence may not be assigned yet, or your apps may need an update and a restart. It can take a little while for Copilot to appear after a licence is assigned. If it still isn’t there, ask your IT admin or contact IT.ie on 1800 353 353.
Typing / in a Copilot prompt lets you point it at a specific file, person or meeting. Where a prompt shows /[person] or /[document], type / and pick the one you want.
No. The order builds up gradually, but you can jump to any prompt that suits the work in front of you. Ticking off prompts on this page is saved in your browser so you can pick up where you left off.
Copilot needs a meeting transcript to recap a meeting. Turn on recording or transcription when the meeting starts, or ask the organiser to, and Copilot can then recap it during and after the call.
Microsoft 365 Copilot works inside your organisation’s Microsoft 365 environment and only shows you content you already have permission to see. Your prompts and responses are not used to train the underlying AI models. Always review what Copilot produces before you share it.
Your organisation decides whether to keep Copilot. The trial converts to paid licences automatically unless it is cancelled, and Microsoft needs at least 7 days’ notice before it ends. IT.ie reviews the results with you before then.
Work Smarter in 30 is a customer resource hub from IT.ie. Microsoft, Microsoft 365, Copilot, Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel and PowerPoint are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.
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