Microsoft 365 Copilot for Business Users - 1 Day

What You’ll Learn

Transform your daily work with AI assistance across Microsoft 365. This hands-on beginner course teaches you to use Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. Learn to write effective prompts, save your favorites for reuse, collaborate with teammates using Copilot Pages, and create simple AI agents that answer questions based on your company’s documents.

By the end of this course, you will:

• Use Copilot effectively in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams
• Write prompts that get better AI results
• Save and reuse your favorite prompts
• Search across your entire Microsoft 365 environment with Microsoft 365 Chat
• Collaborate with teammates using Copilot Pages
• Create simple AI agents based on your company documents
• Apply Copilot securely while protecting sensitive data
• Understand what’s included with your Copilot license

What’s Included in This Beginner Course

✓ Copilot in Core Apps – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams ✓ Effective Prompting – Write prompts that work the first time ✓ Prompt Library – Save and reuse your best prompts ✓ Microsoft 365 Chat – Find information across all your apps ✓ Copilot Pages – Collaborate on AI-assisted work with your team ✓ Simple Agents – Create point-and-click agents from your documents ✓ Security & Privacy – Use Copilot safely with company data

Who Should Attend

• Business professionals new to AI and Copilot
• Anyone with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license who wants to learn the basics
• Managers preparing their teams for Copilot adoption
• Knowledge workers who create documents, analyze data, or manage email
• No AI, programming, or technical experience required

What You’ll Build Today

This is a 100% hands-on course. You’ll create real business outputs:

✓ Professional documents using Copilot in Word ✓ Data analysis with Copilot in Excel ✓ Presentations with Copilot in PowerPoint ✓ Email responses and summaries with Copilot in Outlook ✓ Meeting recaps with Copilot in Teams ✓ Shared research project with Copilot Pages ✓ Custom AI agent for your department or team ✓ Personal prompt library you’ll use every day

Prerequisites

• Microsoft 365 account with Copilot license ($30/month)
• Familiarity with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams
• Laptop with internet access
• OneDrive access
• No AI or technical experience needed

Course Includes

• 6.5 hours of hands-on beginner instruction
• Step-by-step lab manual
• 50+ business prompt templates you can use immediately
• Copilot quick reference guide
• Certificate of completion
• 30-day email support
• Digital course materials

About Your Instructor

Cecil Renshaw, PMP, MCT is a Microsoft Certified Trainer with 8 Microsoft Copilot certifications and 18 years of Microsoft 365 consulting experience.

Certifications:

• Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)
• Microsoft 365 Copilot Specialist (8x Certifications)
• Power Platform Functional Consultant (PL-200)
• Project Management Professional (PMP)

Cecil specializes in making AI accessible to business users through practical, hands-on training focused on real-world scenarios.