How Copilot works across Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams
What each app's Copilot is good at, where it struggles, and how it uses the content you already have access to.
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Independent Copilot coverage
Keep up with Microsoft Copilot
Keep up with Microsoft Copilot
without the noise.
Plain-English summaries of what changed, hands-on guides, and prompts you can copy and use across Microsoft 365, GitHub, Windows and Copilot Studio.
// latest
Updates & explainers
Grouped by product so you can skip what you don't use.
Getting real value from GitHub Copilot in code review
Using Copilot to explain diffs, suggest tests and catch edge cases, plus where human review still matters most.
Coming soonGitHub Docs
Copilot on Windows: a practical tour
The everyday tasks it actually speeds up, the keyboard shortcuts worth learning, and the settings to check first.
Coming soonMicrosoft Support
Building your first agent in Copilot Studio
From a blank canvas to a working agent: topics, knowledge sources, actions and how to test before you publish.
Coming soonMicrosoft Learn
Preparing your tenant for Copilot: permissions first
Copilot surfaces what users can already reach. Why oversharing reviews and sensitivity labels come before rollout.
Read the guide →Writing custom instructions that Copilot actually follows
Repository-level instructions, coding conventions and examples that make suggestions fit your codebase.
Coming soonGitHub Docs
// guides
Start here
Core concepts that make every Copilot product easier to use.
01
Write better prompts
Give a goal, context, source and expected format. Specific asks get specific answers.
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Ground it in your data
Point Copilot at the right file, thread or meeting so answers come from your content, not guesses.
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Verify the output
Check citations, numbers and names. Treat drafts as drafts until a person has reviewed them.
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Mind data governance
Permissions, labels and retention policies decide what Copilot can see. Get them right first.
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Prompts you can copy
Tested starting points. Swap in your own details.
Teams · Meeting recap
Summarize this meeting in 5 bullet points. Then list every action item with its owner and due date in a table. Flag any decisions that were left open.
Outlook · Inbox triage
Review my unread email from the last 2 days. Group it into: needs a reply today, FYI only, and can wait. For "needs a reply," draft a one-line response for each.
Excel · Data insight
Look at this table and identify the three biggest trends. Suggest one chart that best shows each, and add a formula column calculating month-over-month change.
GitHub · Test generation
Write unit tests for the selected function. Cover the happy path, empty and null inputs, and boundary values. Use the existing test framework and naming style in this repo.
// history
How Copilot got here
A short history of the Copilot brand.
2021
GitHub Copilot preview
AI pair programming arrives in the editor and introduces the "Copilot" name. Original announcement
2023
Copilot expands across Microsoft
Copilot is announced for Microsoft 365 apps, Windows and Bing, and the brand broadens beyond code.
2023 – 2024
Copilot Studio & agents
Organizations gain tools to build their own copilots and agents grounded in business data.
Now
Agents everywhere
Copilot moves from answering questions toward taking multi-step actions on your behalf.
// official sources
Go to the source
The documentation and blogs we check before we write.