Copilot Chat Mastery

Copilot Chat is often the first part of Copilot people try. A broad first prompt can produce an equally broad answer, which makes the tool easy to dismiss. Better results start with a few practical checks: which account is active, what evidence Copilot can reach, and whether the answer holds up against that evidence.

The four lessons follow the way the work tends to unfold. You'll start a controlled chat on desktop, web, or mobile, then decide whether a question calls for work data, the public web, or text supplied in the prompt. You'll also learn to point Copilot to a particular file, meeting, or person. Later, you'll clean up prompts worth keeping, prepare them for scheduling or sharing, compare visible model settings fairly, and use Create for assets such as posters, forms, and short videos.

Copilot can ground an answer only in material it can reach. Choose the source, add or reference it when the task needs one, and check the entire response against that source before you use it or send it on.