Course Introduction

Microsoft Copilot brings AI directly into Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Teams – the tools your team already uses all day. This one-day course shows professionals how to get real productivity from Copilot across Microsoft 365, with hands-on practice in each app. The fastest way to turn your existing Microsoft tools into an AI advantage.

Why this matters

Copilot puts AI inside the Microsoft 365 tools your team already lives in – so the productivity gains need no new platform, just the know-how to use it well. Most organisations pay for Copilot but barely scratch its potential. This course turns that licence into real, daily time savings across Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams and PowerPoint.

What You Will Learn

• What Microsoft Copilot is and how it works across Microsoft 365
• Copilot in Word – drafting, rewriting and summarising
• Copilot in Excel – analysis, formulas and insights
• Copilot in Outlook and Teams – email, meetings and summaries
• Copilot in PowerPoint – building decks fast
• Prompting Copilot well, and using it securely (POPIA)

The Advantages of Attending

• Reclaim hours every week on routine Microsoft 365 work – Staff stop rebuilding the same Word reports, Excel formulas and Outlook replies from scratch. Drafting a report, summarising a long email thread or writing a formula drops from around 30 minutes to a few, freeing time for work that needs real judgement.
• Cleaner, more consistent documents and decks – Copilot helps staff produce tighter Word documents, clearer PowerPoint slides and better-structured emails in a consistent house style. Client-facing work needs fewer review rounds before it goes out.
• Fewer errors in Excel and month-end reporting – Delegates learn to use Copilot to build, explain and check Excel formulas and surface totals, trends and outliers in data. That reduces the manual slips that creep into management packs and month-end reports.
• More value from a Microsoft 365 licence you already pay for – Most organisations already pay for Microsoft 365 but use a fraction of what Copilot can do across Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams and PowerPoint. One focused day turns that licence into daily, visible time savings across the team.
• Quicker turnaround on meetings, documents and client requests – Teams that summarise Teams meetings, pull together data and draft documents faster respond to clients, quotes and tenders sooner. The same Copilot habits shorten the gap between a request landing and a response going out.

Skills You Will Walk Away With

• Draft, rewrite and summarise Word documents with Copilot, then adjust tone and length to match a brief
• Build, explain and troubleshoot Excel formulas with Copilot and surface totals, trends and outliers in a dataset
• Summarise long Outlook email threads and draft clear, on-point replies in a fraction of the usual time
• Generate first-draft PowerPoint decks from a Word document or prompt, then restructure slides and speaker notes
• Capture Teams meeting summaries, decisions and action items automatically and assign follow-ups without manual note-taking
• Write precise Copilot prompts that return specific, usable output instead of vague or generic results
• Pull information together across Microsoft 365 files, emails and chats to answer a question or assemble a report quickly
• Check and verify Copilot output, and recognise where confidential data must be protected before sending

Who Should Attend

Anyone using Microsoft 365 who wants to work dramatically faster with Copilot. Suitable for all levels.

Why train with BOTI

BOTI has trained teams across South Africa for over a decade and is rated 4.8 from 652 Google reviews. This course is practical and hands-on, fully customisable to your team and industry, and can be delivered in-house at your premises anywhere in South Africa or at a public venue, with or without laptops supplied. Every delegate receives a certificate of completion and leaves with skills they can apply the very next day.