Never start with a blank page again with Copilot in Word

Cameron Male

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Welcome to Part Four in our series of blog posts designed to inform you how Copilot for Microsoft 365 (available now for every business), can be used within specific M365 apps. 

It’s incredibly important that you and your team understand how it will work within each specific M365 app, as the benefits and use cases are different for each app. Understanding the separate use cases will help you to make it real when you’re discussing it with your current & prospective customers.  

So… In this series of blogs, I’ll be covering Teams, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel – We’ve already looked at Teams, PowerPoint and Outlook now we’re going to dive into Word. 

The birds-eye-view 

Copilot in Word is all about unlocking productivity and helping you unlock the power of AI: 

  • Never start with a blank page again, with Copilot getting you off the ground immediately. 
  • Rewrite and transform your text with ease. 
  • Generate summaries of lengthy Word docs to get up to speed quickly. 
  • Find additional details to enhance and support your documents, by asking Copilot questions about the document. 

What are the features? 

Copilot in Word is all about helping you get the most out all your Word documents – regardless of whether you’ve written them or received them. To make it easier to discuss in this blog, I’m going to put everything into four buckets – ‘Create’, ‘Edit’, ‘Catchup’ & ‘Ask’ 

We won’t cover absolutely everything, but my aim is for you to have a solid grasp on what the technology can do by the end of this article. 

Create 

Where you’ll likely get the most benefit from Copilot for Word, is in asking it to help you write and create, giving you relevant suggestions based on your context and intent. For example, if you are writing a CV and you want to highlight your skills and achievements, Copilot can suggest bullet points that match your profile and industry. You can also browse through different templates and styles to find the one that suits your needs and preferences. 

What makes all of this even better is you can create, whilst referencing other files – so if you’re on the other side of a job hunt and you’re looking to write a letter offering someone a job, you can do so whilst referencing the job spec, or referencing a previous job offer letter. 

Edit 

Editing your documents can be a time-consuming and tedious task, especially if you must do it manually. You might miss some spelling or grammar errors, use inconsistent formatting, or write unclear or redundant sentences. That’s why Copilot in Word can help you with this crucial step of the writing process. Copilot in Word is more than just a spellchecker or a grammar checker. It is a smart assistant that can analyse your document and give you suggestions on how to improve your writing style, tone, clarity, and readability. You can use Copilot in Word to: 

  • Find and fix spelling, grammar, punctuation, and word usage errors 
  • Ensure consistency in formatting, capitalization, numbering, and references 
  • Simplify complex or verbose sentences and avoid repetition 
  • Enhance your vocabulary and choose the right words for your audience and purpose 
  • Adjust your tone and voice to match the genre and context of your document 
  • Get feedback on how to structure your document and organize your paragraphs 

Copilot in Word can help you edit your documents faster and easier and make them more professional and effective. Whether you are writing a business report, a personal letter, or a creative story, Copilot in Word can help you polish your writing and express your ideas better. 

Catch Up 

Sometimes, you may need to catch up on a document that someone else has written or edited and get a quick overview of what has changed or what the main points are. Copilot in Word can help you with this task by providing you with a summary of the document, highlighting the key sentences and paragraphs, and showing you the most important changes and comments.  

You can also ask Copilot to generate a table of contents, an outline, or an abstract for your document, which can help you navigate and understand it better. Copilot in Word can also help you summarize your own documents, which can be useful for creating executive summaries, abstracts, or introductions. 

Ask 

Another way that Copilot for Word can help you write and create quicker and easier is by providing you with smart insights and information that can enrich your documents. For example, if you are writing a report and you need to cite some sources or facts, Copilot can search the web and find reliable and relevant data for you. 

Or maybe you’re just looking for some ideas for a seasonal marketing campaign, or for some icebreaker activities for a new team – Copilot can help you here too. All you’ve got to do is ask! 

We hope this has given you a better idea of what’s possible in Copilot for Word!

Get Started Today 

We hope this has given you a better idea of what’s possible in Copilot for Word! 

Copilot for Microsoft 365 is a major opportunity for MSPs in this new era of AI.  

To help you get started on defining your strategy, developing your skills, and operationalising your sales engine, we recommend you follow these steps:  

  • Build your practice and develop your customer offerings.  
  • Get your customers Copilot-ready, download our Copilot Go-To-Market pack today. 
  • Tap into key marketing resources, Infinigate Cloud Partners can find ready-to-use campaigns through GROW.  
  • Upskill and train your staff, EDGE, our award-winning education program includes On Demand recordings, courses and workshops for Copilot and more! 
  • The Copilot adoption starter kit and the Copilot for Microsoft 365 partner page provide helpful guidance and resources to use with customers and explain the difference between Microsoft Copilot and Copilot for Microsoft 365.   

For more information 

As a born in the cloud distributor with a deep technical heritage, Infinigate Cloud continually invest in our teams and evolve our value-add services to ensure we deliver the very best in technical expertise and 24*7 support for our partners.  

If you are interested in finding out about how we can help you add value to your business or you would like to know more about Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365, please contact us and we’ll be happy to chat through any of your questions.  

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