AI Inside Microsoft Office: Copilot Helper

Microsoft Office's Copilot helps with writing, formulas, slides, and emails. If your school uses Office, you have access to Copilot — most students do not realize it.

Some examples

• In Word: ask Copilot to summarize a document or rewrite paragraphs.
• In Excel: ask Copilot 'what are the trends in this data?' or 'make a chart for me.'
• In PowerPoint: 'Make me a 5-slide deck about [topic].'
• In Outlook: 'Summarize the long email thread for me.'

Try it!

Practice this safely

Try this with a school, hobby, or family example where the stakes are low. Use the AI output as a draft you can question, not as the final answer.

1. 1Ask AI to explain Microsoft Office in plain language, then underline anything that sounds uncertain or too broad.
2. 2Give it one detail from "AI Inside Microsoft Office: Copilot Helper" and ask for two possible next steps plus one reason each step might be wrong.
3. 3Check Copilot against a trusted source, teacher, adult, expert, or original document before you use it.