Find your starting point
Copilot Microsoft 365 (Copilot AI + Excel, Word, PowerPoint) is a demonstration-led tour through several Office apps, including Outlook messages and Teams summaries. Microsoft Copilot for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint includes course and exercise files. Microsoft 365 Copilot Masterclass for Office Professionals adds grounded files, meeting work, task extraction and no-code agents. The exercises vary by course.
Microsoft's Draft, analyze, and present with Microsoft Copilot has seven modules and a sample Outlook sequence from triage to a meeting. Optimize business processes with Microsoft Copilot shares several app workflows with it, so the courses overlap. Copilot training for EAs & Office Managers is a custom team course about executive inbox triage, meeting briefs, Teams recap and licence limits. It does not list public individual booking.
Some courses need a work or school account with Copilot enabled. Others leave the exact plan open. Check your tenant, Copilot surface, file access, licence and course access before expecting every exercise to work.
Turn a project update into an executive brief
A fictional update says the pilot finished, customer feedback is due Friday and the rollout budget awaits approval. You want a short document your director can scan before a meeting.
Try this prompt
Draft a one-page brief from this update. Use headings for completed work, upcoming actions and decisions needed. Preserve the budget approval as an open decision. Suggest a three-slide outline using only these facts.
What a useful answer includes
- The finished pilot, Friday feedback and pending budget approval appear in the right sections.
- The brief and slide outline agree.
- Neither invents a rollout date, budget amount or customer result.
Before you pick a course
- Pick the applications you need most: Word for documents, PowerPoint for slides, Excel for tables, or Teams and Outlook for communication.
- A Microsoft 365 course may span several apps.
- A focused course may give more time to one task
- Compare its actual outline and practice.
- Confirm which Copilot licence and organizational features the exercises require.
- Access to one Copilot experience does not mean every in-app feature is available.
Compare the courses
| Course | What you’ll do | Time | Cost and access |
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| Copilot Microsoft 365 (Copilot AI + Excel, Word, PowerPoint)Steve Ballinger, MBA |
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| Microsoft Copilot for Word, Excel, and PowerPointSimon Sez IT |
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| Microsoft 365 Copilot Masterclass for Office ProfessionalsBiswajit | Expanding Horizons |
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| Draft, analyze, and present with Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft |
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| Optimize business processes with Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft |
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| Copilot training for EAs & Office ManagersFrontrow Technologies |
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Take a closer look
Copilot Microsoft 365 (Copilot AI + Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
See how Copilot helps with Excel reports and formulas, Word and PowerPoint drafts, Outlook messages and Teams summaries.
Microsoft Copilot for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Use Copilot in Word to draft and summarize long documents, and in Excel to review trends, charts and calculated columns.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Masterclass for Office Professionals
In this masterclass, explore grounded prompts using work files and meetings and Word, Excel and presentation tasks.
Draft, analyze, and present with Microsoft Copilot
Learn how Copilot Chat uses organizational data, then create Word documents and PowerPoint presentations.
Optimize business processes with Microsoft Copilot
Use Copilot Chat with work content to create Word and PowerPoint outputs, then explore related Outlook and Excel workflows.
Copilot training for EAs & Office Managers
Use Copilot Chat to triage an executive's Outlook inbox, draft replies in their voice and prepare meeting briefs. The course also explains which recap tools need Teams Premium or Microsoft…
Try this before you choose
Choose two Microsoft 365 apps and one repeated task, then match them to named exercises in each course. Confirm your account type, Copilot licence and feature access before enrolling.
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