Copilot in Word & PowerPoint

Copilot can produce a plausible first draft quickly. The speed is not the point. The value is in what you do next, pulling in the source documents that make the draft specific to your organization, rewriting a section that is close but wrong, and reshaping the whole thing for a different reader without starting over.

This workshop focuses on that critical middle stage of the drafting process, where most of the judgment and much of the time still resides. Participants will learn how to use Copilot in Word and PowerPoint to develop more specific, polished, and audience-appropriate documents and presentations.

We recommend this workshop for anyone who produces proposals, reports, briefs, presentations, or other professional deliverables and wants to shorten the drafting cycle without making the finished work feel generic.

Participants will need access to Microsoft 365 Copilot in both Word and PowerPoint. Bring two or three relevant source files, one real deliverable you need to produce, and your organization’s PowerPoint template, if available.

This session builds directly on Microsoft Copilot Fundamentals.

Participants will learn to:

• create drafts from your own source material rather than Copilot's generic assumptions
• Revise at the right scale, whether changing a sentence, reworking a section, or restructuring an entire document
• Preserve organization's language through successive revisions
• Turn a completed document into a working presentation and identify what requires manual refinement
• Work effectively with an organization’s PowerPoint template and recognize when the template itself is limiting the result
• Evaluate whether a Copilot draft is worth improving or should be abandoned and rebuilt