From the course: Streamlining Your Work with Microsoft Copilot

Write and edit text with Copilot - Microsoft Copilot Tutorial

From the course: Streamlining Your Work with Microsoft Copilot

Write and edit text with Copilot

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- Copilot can help you write or rewrite text by composing drafts for you. Now, as you use these features, I strongly recommend that you use the AI-generated text only as drafts to give you ideas or help you get started. You should always rewrite and revise for your specific needs. Now, I'm doing a guest speaking engagement for a company and they'd like me to give them a bio. I can use Copilot to compose one for me. I can simply go to the chat field and ask it to write a professional bio about me as a LinkedIn learning instructor and guest speaker. Include my passion for helping others learn new technology. Now, clearly there is information in this draft that is not completely accurate for me, but this is a good starting point. Remember, when you point at a response, some buttons appear below it. There's a button to copy the entire text of the response, so I could copy it there, then paste it somewhere else like a Microsoft Word document and make more changes. Or I could click the button to edit this response in a new page using the Pages feature here in Copilot as a place to refine the draft. Or of course, I can follow up and ask for changes. There are some suggested prompts I could use here, but I'll just type, make this shorter and more friendly. And you can do that all here on the Copilot website. But if you use the Microsoft Edge web browser, you can also use the Copilot panel built into Microsoft Edge. So first I'll navigate to some other webpage. This is the website for a tourism company. I'll open the page describing the tours that they offer. Then I'll click the Copilot button on the top right of the Edge web browser. And since I have a webpage open in the main part of the browser, I can ask Copilot for information about that page, or I can ask it to write a draft based on the content on the page. So I'll ask Copilot to create a social media post about the tours offered here. And it gives me a draft for a social media post. I can copy this and paste it anywhere I want. And if this is not quite right for my audience, I can ask for a revision or I'll ask it to write one that's suitable for LinkedIn. And this will probably be a better starting point for a LinkedIn post. So the next time you have writer's block, Copilot may be able to help you by writing first drafts of text for you.

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