Discover where Copilot genuinely boosts your productivity, how it can simplify your work – and where it lays dangerous pitfalls in your path. From time-saving features in OneNote, Word, and Teams to alarming shortcomings in Excel: this video course offers you a realistic view of the opportunities and limitations of Artificial Intelligence in Microsoft Office.
You will learn how to effectively use Copilot for text summarisation, meeting minutes, and the lightning-fast creation of follow-up tasks in OneNote and Teams. How to reformat text in Word, generate from bullet points, automatically add headings, and visualise content as engaging tables. You will also learn why you should avoid using Copilot in Excel.
Office expert Holger Wöltje will guide you through the course, showing you best practices for quickly following up on meetings with AI, how to quickly identify and fix common pitfalls and minor errors, and how to strategically use Copilot where it offers you real added value.
Contents
- Copilot in Office 365: Overview & Use Cases
- Overview: The different variations, differences to Copilot and Copilot Pro
- How to access Copilot in different Office 365 applications
- Caution Trap: Strengths and Weaknesses of AI in Everyday Work
- Record meetings effectively and extract follow-up tasks lightning-fast with Copilot in OneNote
- Automatically create summaries and follow-up tasks with Copilot
- Warum Sie das Ergebnis IMMER prüfen müssen: wo passieren welche Fehler
- Practical tips, Review & correction, Copilot in the sidebar
- Automatically transcribe Teams meetings and use Copilot during the meeting
- Transcription in Microsoft Teams (with participant consent)
- Transcription without video recording (both possible if required)
- How to use Copilot effectively during a meeting
- From transcript to final minutes: Best practices for effective post-processing
- Access the transcript in Microsoft Teams later and ask Copilot about the content
- Copy as text to OneNote, export as Word document, or subtitle file
- Warning: DO NOT trust the summary if you weren't there yourself – best practices for quick follow-up
- Copilot in Excel: Only for the pros, still too many errors
- Several errors in simple tasks, and why you should never use Copilot without good Excel knowledge
- Caution Trap/Subsequent errors in sums: Use SUBTOTAL
- How to be faster without Copilot
- Copilot in Word: Edit texts significantly faster and more effectively
- Automatically correct conversion and spelling errors, rewrite texts
- Simplify text as a table or list, even when pasting directly
- Generate text from bullet points at lightning speed, add headings and reformat
