Microsoft 365 Copilot Scenarios Guide
Microsoft 365 Copilot Scenarios Guide
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Recap a meeting Summarize an Draft email Summarize a Tell me about
– let Copilot keep track of email thread – personalize the tone document a
key topics and action items – get quickly caught up to and length. – get right down to topic/project
so you can stay focused a long, complex email business by summarizing
during the meeting and – provide insights and
thread. long documents and analysis from across
avoid listening to the focusing
recording after. Draft an email to [name] multiple sources to
that informs them that on the relevant sections. getTell
upmeto what's
speednew about topic
Draft an email with notes Click on the Summarize Give me a bulleted list
Project X is delayed two
and action items from icon of key points from file quickly.
organized by emails, chats, and
weeks. Make it short and
meeting files?
casual in tone.
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Give me some Help me write … What did they How do I … Translate a
ideas for … – jumpstart creativity and say … – let Copilot help you message
– boost your creativity write and edit like a pro by – when you vaguely build or fix formulas in – with business becoming
with ideas for your work getting a first draft in remember someone Excel. increasingly international,
such as agendas, seconds. mentioning a topic, have it’s important to be able to
product names, social Copilot do the research. read or write messages in
media posts, etc. other languages.
Suggest 10 compelling Generate three What did person How do I sum values that Translate the
taglines based on file ways to say [x] say about topic are greater than 0? following text into
French:
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Rapidly get up to speed to focus on key Document and socialize the action items Create a draft of your speech from your
issues and concerns. Have additional time to keep the preparation process moving current documents.
to identify key pain points for customer. forward towards a successful close.
5. Review previous
6. Send thank you 4. Create presentation
session
Thank the team for watching the address Review last quarter’s address by prompting Revise the presentation slides, changing out a
by asking Copilot in Outlook to draft a Copilot to summarize the meeting and highlight few images with suggestions from Copilot in
response that can be personalized in tone the numbers that were presented to ensure PowerPoint.
and length. consistency.
Copilot in Outlook Business Chat2 Copilot in PowerPoint
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Access Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com or the Microsoft Copilot mobile app and set toggle to “Web”.
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Access Business Chat at copilot.microsoft.com, the Microsoft Copilot mobile app, or the Copilot app in Teams, and set toggle to “Work”.
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Copilot agents allow Microsoft 365 Copilot to access your company-specific apps. In the past this would have required an API call to get data from a system of record.
The content in this example scenario is for demonstration purposes only. You should evaluate how Copilot aligns with your organization’s business processes, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI principles.
Available Scenario
A day in the life of an Executive with:
Microsoft 365 Copilot level:
Tanya starts the day with a customer call in After the call, Tanya summarizes her email Tanya has a few more minutes so she uses
Tanya
her hotel room. She uses Copilot in Teams threads from the day before and uses Copilot Copilot to catch up on the meetings she is a CEO
to suggest follow up questions to ask the in Outlook to create replies, getting through all missed while flying in. She sends a few
customer. of her email in only 20 minutes. chats to provide instructions on the critical
traveling to give
issues. a speech at a
Copilot in Teams Copilot in Outlook Business Chat2
conference
Prompt: What are some good follow up Prompt: Reply in a professional tone with Prompt: What was the main issue faced
questions to make sure I understand the a short email saying that I am sorry for the by the marketing team and what was the
customer’s issue with the last delivery? issue with the product and we will have a proposed solution and timing?
response by 3 pm this afternoon.
The issue is finally under control and Tanya A critical production issue has occurred at a After a long session of customer meetings at
can get back to her speech. She isn’t happy manufacturing site and Tanya needs to get up to the conference, Tanya gets a chance to have a
with the introduction, so she asks Copilot in speed quickly. She asks Copilot for a summary of look at her speech for tomorrow and make a
Word to suggest some humorous opening the emails and chats related to the issue. few updates. She uses Copilot in Word to add a
lines. With a few tweaks she has the perfect new section on bonus plan updates.
start.
Copilot in Word Business Chat2 Copilot in Word
Prompt: Give me some suggestions of Prompt: Summarize all of the email and Prompt: Add a new paragraph based
humorous ways to begin this speech. chats that mention the melt shop from the on /Contoso Bonus Plan for FY23.
past two hours.
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Access Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com or the Microsoft Copilot mobile app and set toggle to “Web”.
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Access Business Chat at copilot.microsoft.com, the Microsoft Copilot mobile app, or the Copilot app in Teams, and set toggle to “Work”.
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Copilot agents allow Microsoft 365 Copilot to access your company-specific apps. In the past this would have required an API call to get data from a system of record.
The content in this example scenario is for demonstration purposes only. You should evaluate how Copilot aligns with your organization’s business processes, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI principles.
Available Scenario
A day in the life of a Chief Technology Officer with:
Microsoft 365 Copilot level:
Review key technology news, internal Meetings with the IT department leadership Meetings with other department heads or
Evelyn
reports, and updates related to ongoing team to discuss priorities, project progress, project teams to help facilitate technology is a CTO who
projects and operational issues. challenges, and resource allocation. integration and addressing any
department-specific needs.
helps maintain
and secure the IT
Business Chat2 Copilot in Teams Business Chat2
infrastructure at
Prompt: Summarize emails and Teams Prompt: Summarize meeting topics, action Prompt: Summarize my meetings with
her organization.
messages from the past week including items and create a table of upcoming team Employee X, Employee Y and Employee Z
reports, analyst surveys, news alerts and milestones agreed on in this meeting. and identify common topics and
project updates. discussions in our workstreams
Deep dive into specific projects, reviewing Discuss ongoing services, evaluate new Reviews and updates from Cybersecurity
progress with project managers, addressing solutions, and negotiate terms that best meet team, threats, incidents, actions and measure
technical challenges, and making strategic the needs of the business. to resolve issues.
decisions to ensure project success.
Prompt: Utilize data from quarterly Prompt: Summarize discussions with Prompt: Create a PowerPoint
project review and provide a summary of Vendor X, Vendor Y and Vendor Z related to presentation from our quarterly
how many projects are on time and the price, solution and upcoming deadlines. cybersecurity report including a visual of
blockers mentioned in the data. resources targeted and types of attacks.
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Access Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com or the Microsoft Copilot mobile app and set toggle to “Web”.
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Access Business Chat at copilot.microsoft.com, the Microsoft Copilot mobile app, or the Copilot app in Teams, and set toggle to “Work”.
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Copilot agents allow Microsoft 365 Copilot to access your company-specific apps. In the past this would have required an API call to get data from a system of record.
The content in this example scenario is for demonstration purposes only. You should evaluate how Copilot aligns with your organization’s business processes, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI principles.
Available Scenario
A day in the life of a Chief Information Officer with:
Microsoft 365 Copilot level:
Review briefings, reports from across the Alignment on daily priorities, any overnight Working on long-term IT strategies aligned
Ava
organization and departments. Including issues, ensuring projects and teams are on with government policies and objectives, is a CIO who seeks
updates on projects, cybersecurity alerts, track with projects and tasks. including stakeholders from budget, exec
performance metrics of IT services. branch and core IT leadership.
insights on the
status of
Business Chat2 Copilot in Teams Business Chat2
programs,
Prompt: Summarize my meetings for Prompt: Summarize and include the key Prompt: Based on last month's strategic
projects,
today. For each meeting, list participants issues and suggestions from last week's IT planning meeting provide a summary of the stakeholder
and link to relevant documents for each department heads meetings. budget constraints discussed.
meeting. insights and daily
agendas.
4:30 pm 3:30 pm 2:00 pm
Financial report reviews with budget Discuss ongoing services, evaluate new Reviews and updates from Cybersecurity
analysts, reviewing financial reports, signing solutions, and negotiate terms that best meet team, threats, incidents, actions and measure
documents, looking at current and on-going the needs of the business. to resolve issues.
cost planning.
Prompt: Based on the quarterly budget, Prompt: Summarize discussions with Prompt: Create a PowerPoint
show me suggested areas to reduce Vendor X, Vendor Y and Vendor Z related to presentation from our quarterly
operating expenditures. price, solution and upcoming deadlines. cybersecurity report including a visual of
resources targeted and types of attacks.
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Access Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com or the Microsoft Copilot mobile app and set toggle to “Web”.
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Access Business Chat at copilot.microsoft.com, the Microsoft Copilot mobile app, or the Copilot app in Teams, and set toggle to “Work”.
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Copilot agents allow Microsoft 365 Copilot to access your company-specific apps. In the past this would have required an API call to get data from a system of record.
The content in this example scenario is for demonstration purposes only. You should evaluate how Copilot aligns with your organization’s business processes, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI principles.
Available Scenario
A day in the life of a Chief Data Officer with:
Microsoft 365 Copilot level:
Review and align organization's data Collaborate to understand challenges, and Host meeting with data governance team
strategy with overall goals for improved priorities and discuss strategies for data to ensure data quality, compliance with
citizen services. collection, analysis, and sharing. regulations, and effective data
management practices. Robert
Business Chat2 Copilot in Teams Business Chat2 is a Chief Data
Officer at Contoso.
Prompt: Utilizing our data policy, provide Prompt: Summarize and include the key Prompt: Provide me with the list of the
me with a list of prioritized departments issues and suggestions from last week's IT most recent compliance and regulatory
to focus our initial outreach efforts to department heads meetings. changes.
collaborate.
Check communications to ensure all urgent Review data projects, ensuring timelines, Dive into data analytics projects to extract
messages are addressed and to prepare for budgets, and deliverables are on track. insights and trends that inform policy
the next steps post-approval. Collaborate with IT teams and vendors to decisions, resource allocation, and service
implement data solutions effectively. improvements.
Prompt: Identify and respond to any Prompt: Based on the quarterly project Prompt: Review Department X KPI data to
urgent data-related inquires I missed during reviews identify projects that are at-risk understand areas to improve resource
the day. of going over budget. allocation.
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Access Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com or the Microsoft Copilot mobile app and set toggle to “Web”.
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Access Business Chat at copilot.microsoft.com, the Microsoft Copilot mobile app, or the Copilot app in Teams, and set toggle to “Work”.
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Copilot agents allow Microsoft 365 Copilot to access your company-specific apps. In the past this would have required an API call to get data from a system of record.
The content in this example scenario is for demonstration purposes only. You should evaluate how Copilot aligns with your organization’s business processes, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI principles.
Copilot scenarios for
Operations
Copilot scenarios for
Operations
Improve employee
Revenue growth Cost savings and avoidance
experience
Optimize costs and improve quality of Operations
Key
Before AI Using AI
Processes
Simplify tasks for operations employees - Start Conduct a business review - Buy
Reporting Ensuring data quality and Frontline workers can improve
reporting and collaboration. Plan and execute a business review meeting.
timeliness of reporting requires a lot
of resources.
Roles
Roles
Risk Manager
Compliance Analyst
Procurement
Manager
Roles
Copilot
Copilot Chat1 Copilot Chat1
Chat1
Benefit: Save time on shift turnovers to Benefit: Ensure that everyone on the team Benefit: Ask Copilot to find the required
focus on higher-value tasks has clear, understandable procedures. maintenance procedure.
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Access Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com or the Microsoft Copilot mobile app and set toggle to “Web”.
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Access Business Chat at copilot.microsoft.com, the Microsoft Copilot mobile app, or the Copilot app in Teams, and set toggle to “Work”.
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Copilot agents allow Microsoft 365 Copilot to access your company-specific apps. In the past this would have required an API call to get data from a system of record.
The content in this example scenario is for demonstration purposes only. You should evaluate how Copilot aligns with your organization’s business processes, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI principles.
Available Scenario
Operations | Execute a project review with:
Microsoft 365 Copilot level: Buy
Leverage Microsoft Copilot to summarize Meet with project team to discuss key Use Copilot in Whiteboard to map mitigation
related project data on scope, core project milestones and project status. Use Copilot in plans to top risks/issues and categorize all
objectives and KPIs. Teams to summarize the meeting, with action the items at the end of the meeting.
items.
Copilot in Copilot in
Business Chat2
Teams Whiteboard
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Access Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com or the Microsoft Copilot mobile app and set toggle to “Web”.
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Access Business Chat at copilot.microsoft.com, the Microsoft Copilot mobile app, or the Copilot app in Teams, and set toggle to “Work”.
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Copilot agents allow Microsoft 365 Copilot to access your company-specific apps. In the past this would have required an API call to get data from a system of record.
The content in this example scenario is for demonstration purposes only. You should evaluate how Copilot aligns with your organization’s business processes, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI principles.
Available Scenario
Operations | Create a change management plan with:
Microsoft 365 Copilot level: Buy
3. Brainstorm an engagement
1. Conduct change discovery 2. Analyze change impacts
plan
Meet with core stakeholders to understand Use Copilot in Excel to support data analysis Brainstorm the best way to engage your
the change and how it will impact people in as you build a detailed change impact impacted stakeholders and support change
the organization. Use Copilot in Teams to assessment. adoption. Prompt Copilot in Whiteboard to
summarize the meeting, with action items. identify similar ideas and tactics discussed.
Benefit: Dedicate your focus to the Benefit: Easily summarize data and Benefit: Quickly categorize inputs, identify
meeting while Copilot focuses on capturing highlight trends without in-depth Excel winning ideas, and summarize results to
the notes. knowledge. share with participants.
Use Copilot in Outlook to create and email to Prompt Copilot to summarize meeting details Use Copilot in PowerPoint to transform a
notify the team of the change management over time, like how many events related to detailed change management plan from
plan. the change you have each week. Word into an executive presentation.
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Access Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com or the Microsoft Copilot mobile app and set toggle to “Web”.
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Access Business Chat at copilot.microsoft.com, the Microsoft Copilot mobile app, or the Copilot app in Teams, and set toggle to “Work”.
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Copilot agents allow Microsoft 365 Copilot to access your company-specific apps. In the past this would have required an API call to get data from a system of record.
The content in this example scenario is for demonstration purposes only. You should evaluate how Copilot aligns with your organization’s business processes, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI principles.
Available Scenario
Operations | Conduct a business review with:
Microsoft 365 Copilot level: Buy
Leverage Copilot to summarize multiple After the Finance team provides the data on Use Copilot in PowerPoint to create a
Teams threads and emails for agenda business performance from the previous presentation based on a summary of key
requests. Catch up on any meetings you period (monthly/quarterly) use Copilot in documents including the business
might have missed to ensure clarity on the Excel to highlight data and embed formulas. performance analysis.
latest requests and decisions.
Business Copilot in
Copilot in PowerPoint
Chat2 Excel
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Access Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com or the Microsoft Copilot mobile app and set toggle to “Web”.
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Access Business Chat at copilot.microsoft.com, the Microsoft Copilot mobile app, or the Copilot app in Teams, and set toggle to “Work”.
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Copilot agents allow Microsoft 365 Copilot to access your company-specific apps. In the past this would have required an API call to get data from a system of record.
The content in this example scenario is for demonstration purposes only. You should evaluate how Copilot aligns with your organization’s business processes, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI principles.
Available Scenario
Operations | Create a supplier RFP with:
Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio level:Extend
Use Microsoft Copilot in Word to summarize Prompt Copilot to summarize the Prompt Copilot to suggest RFP questions,
earlier RFPs and generate a list of required requirements from existing documentation. enhanced with a custom agent for an RFP
items sorted repository built with Copilot Studio.
by category.
Benefit: Quickly create professional Benefit: Don’t miss any updates by asking
Benefit: Quickly make responses more
emails that are concise and more likely to Copilot for all the suggestions made during
readable to improve the quality of the RFP.
be read and can lead to higher close rates. the meeting.
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Access Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com or the Microsoft Copilot mobile app and set toggle to “Web”.
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Access Business Chat at copilot.microsoft.com, the Microsoft Copilot mobile app, or the Copilot app in Teams, and set toggle to “Work”.
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Copilot agents allow Microsoft 365 Copilot to access your company-specific apps. In the past this would have required an API call to get data from a system of record.
The content in this example scenario is for demonstration purposes only. You should evaluate how Copilot aligns with your organization’s business processes, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI principles.
Available Scenario
A day in the life of an Operations PM with:
Microsoft 365 Copilot level: Buy
~1 hour saved per Areas of investment: higher priority Better communication with
Benefits
week projects colleagues
Sample prompt: Summarize all the emails Sample prompt: Summarize key
Sample prompt: Find information on
and Teams chats in the past day, highlighting discussion points. Identify agreed-upon
[project x].
the primary asks and open items. next steps.
Cassandra prepares a presentation on the Cassandra joins her colleagues to brainstorm Following the meeting, she utilizes Copilot in
readiness plan, using Copilot in PowerPoint to the change management and readiness plan Excel to review and analyze the project data
generate the content based on the for an upcoming project using Copilot in and generate reports. She shares key
whiteboarding session. Whiteboard to capture key project needs. insights and meeting actions to all the
attendees.
Copilot in Copilot in Copilot in
PowerPoint Whiteboard Excel
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Access Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com or the Microsoft Copilot mobile app and set toggle to “Web”.
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Access Business Chat at copilot.microsoft.com, the Microsoft Copilot mobile app, or the Copilot app in Teams, and set toggle to “Work”.
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Copilot agents allow Microsoft 365 Copilot to access your company-specific apps. In the past this would have required an API call to get data from a system of record.
The content in this example scenario is for demonstration purposes only. You should evaluate how Copilot aligns with your organization’s business processes, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI principles.
Available Scenario
A day in the life of a Business Manager with:
Microsoft 365 Copilot level: Buy
Action: Summarize this thread calling out Sample prompt: Review upcoming Action: Summarize documents and past
where my name was mentioned and any calendar events and make sure they align activities to fully prepare for upcoming
action items for me. with your core priorities. meetings.
Daichi responds to emails and Teams Daichi puts together a briefing document based on Daichi joins the meeting via Teams. After the
messages using Copilot in Outlook to help the Customer & Project information. He uses Copilot meeting he uses Copilot in Teams to recap, identify
him draft his content tailored to a specified to research the most recent presentations by the risks and define next steps. He then uses Copilot in
Outlook to draft a follow up email to the attendees.
tone, length and sentiment. company CEO and cross reference to competitors.
Copilot in Copilot
Business
Copilot in Outlook in
Chat2
Outlook Teams
Benefit: Identify key data points across
Benefit: Automate drafting of emails and
multiple documents, external web content, Action: Summarize this meeting and
use Copilot to revise the tone based on the
and financial records (e.g., fund balances) provide the key points and action items
customer situation
quickly and accurately.
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Access Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com or the Microsoft Copilot mobile app and set toggle to “Web”.
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Access Business Chat at copilot.microsoft.com, the Microsoft Copilot mobile app, or the Copilot app in Teams, and set toggle to “Work”.
3
Copilot agents allow Microsoft 365 Copilot to access your company-specific apps. In the past this would have required an API call to get data from a system of record.
The content in this example scenario is for demonstration purposes only. You should evaluate how Copilot aligns with your organization’s business processes, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI principles.