From the course: Microsoft Copilot Essentials by Microsoft Press

Learning objectives - Microsoft Copilot Tutorial

From the course: Microsoft Copilot Essentials by Microsoft Press

Learning objectives

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In this lesson on Copilot for analysis, you use Copilot to explore data and research questions without becoming a full-time data scientist. The sub-lesson on text-to-analysis prompts in Excel begins by using natural language prompts to create formulas, summarize tables, and highlight trends directly from your existing notebooks. lesson on natural language queries explores text-to-analysis workflows further. You ask questions about your data in plain language, generate charts and pivot tables, and use Copilot to propose follow-up questions, so you see the story behind the numbers rather than just staring at rows and columns. The sub-lesson on exploratory analysis workflows builds repeatable patterns, from quick data checks in Excel to deeper analysis loops that you can run whenever you're facing a new dataset. The sub-lesson on using Copilot and Edge for research and synthesis brings the browser into the mix. You use Copilot to research topics, compare sources, and synthesize what you find into outlines, summaries, and structured notes. You pay attention to citations and reliability so you know when to trust a result and when to verify with primary sources.

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