Copilot was the big topic at this week’s Microsoft Ignite Conference. Over 90 sessions covering all aspects of Copilot across almost every Microsoft product or service. Today, I got my hands on Copilot for Microsoft 365 for the first time. My first focus, testing out content creation and using my own content.

Bring your own content is powerful!

Summarising documents and creating bullet points lists on a topic are cool, but there is something much better you can do. I loaded up a PDF copy of the book I wrote on SharePoint Intranets and then the penny dropped! Writing a book has given me a body of knowledge that Copilot can use to answer questions! This is a fantastic way to reuse your existing work.

Here is an example, the response is from different chapters of the book, collated in less than 30 seconds! I

Using Copilot in Microsoft Word, I asked it to create a summary of a White Paper I wrote on Contract Management with SharePoint. Moments later I had a pretty good first draft, ready for review. Copilot took a 3500 word document and produced a 400 word summary document. Brilliant!

I wanted to create a summary of some of the major Ignite Announcements, so my team could quickly skim the main topics and read the full blog for more detail. What better place to start than Jeff Teper’s SharePoint Premium announcement. Bing Chat Enterprise is brilliant for this task!

These are three excellent ways to save time and make content more consumable. This is just scratching the surface, but what I can say is Copilot does a much better job at summarising content than me and it is much faster!

Content you bring to Copilot is kept secure inside your Microsoft 365 tenant.