From the course: Streamlining Your Work with Microsoft Copilot

Summarize information with Copilot - Microsoft Copilot Tutorial

From the course: Streamlining Your Work with Microsoft Copilot

Summarize information with Copilot

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- [Presenter] Copilot is excellent at summarizing information. I'm going to give you some use cases on how you can use this in your day-to-day work life. And to start, let's imagine my manager has just asked me to buy a new printer for the office and they need it by the end of the day. I have not bought a printer in years and I don't know what's out there. I don't know what a good printer is, and I don't even know how much they cost. I'll have Copilot do the research for me. So in the chat field, I'll ask it to, (keyboard clanking) compare the top five small office printers with pros, cons, and price. And here's the response. It's done a lot of work for me. I'm going to ask it to organize that information in a table. (keyboard clanking) And this table is much easier to read and I could continue with other follow-up questions. I'll ask which of these are inkjet printers. Now, next, let's look at this article that was published online. In this example, I'm about to go into a meeting with a customer of ours, and I've just learned that they recently wrote an article and I'd like to be able to talk to them about it in a conversational way. I'm about to go into the meeting so I don't have enough time to read the entire article and absorb all of the data. If you're viewing a page like this in the Microsoft Edge web browser, you can click the Copilot button in the top right and in the chat field, I'll ask it to summarize this article, (keyboard clanking) and it gives me a summary, organized with bullet points. If I really don't have much time, I could follow-up and ask it to make that summary shorter. (keyboard clanking) So if you use the Copilot panel in Microsoft Edge, you can ask questions or get summaries of most things you can view on the web, and that even includes a document in Google Docs. Now I'm about to go into a meeting and I need to learn the contents of this document very quickly. So in the Copilot panel, I'll click the New Topic button to reset, and this time I'll change the conversation style to be more precise. I just want a straightforward answer and then I'll type, summarize this with bullet points (keyboard clanking) and let's see what it came up with. I can see all of the important information from this document without taking the time to read through the full thing. This is going to make it so much easier to get ready for everything I need to do today.

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