Prompt Engineering for Microsoft 365 Copilot (Office Apps)

About this course

Most people use Microsoft Copilot the same way. They type one line, read the answer, think "that's alright, I suppose", and close the window.

The tool is not the problem. The instructions are.

This is not a tour of every button in Copilot. There are plenty of those already. This course is about the part almost nobody teaches: how to ask. It is a skill, it is learnable in an afternoon, and the difference between a one-line request and a properly briefed one is not subtle. You will see it side by side, on real work, in the first twenty minutes.= What you will be able to do = You will brief Copilot the way you would brief a capable colleague who knows nothing about your situation, because that is exactly what it is. You will know the four things every working prompt contains, which of them people always forget, and what happens when you leave one out.

You will also stop treating a whole task as one message. Real work is a sequence of small steps you check as you go. Get the right material in. Ask for options. Decide what "good" means before you compare anything. Ask for the plan before the work. Then make Copilot argue with its own output. You will watch that sequence run end to end in the second lecture, before we take it apart.= What is inside =Getting oriented. Which Copilot is which, what each one can actually see, and the four controls in the chat box worth knowing. Then a full worked example: a fourteen message email thread turned into a comparison table, two charts and a finished deck, in eight prompts, none of them clever.

Prompt engineering basics. The four building blocks of a prompt. Weak prompt versus engineered prompt, side by side, on two very different tasks. Constraints Copilot can actually follow, and why "don't hallucinate" does nothing at all. How to fix an answer in five words instead of rewriting your prompt. And a blunt look at the popular advice that has no effect: expert roles, "think ste

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