Put it to work
in Word, PowerPoint and your own agent.

Day 1 in four lines.

• 1How it works — fluent isn't correct.
• 2CTFT — Context, Task, Format, Tone. Plus a Source.
• 3Outlook — the newest message wins.
• 4Excel — clean first, count second. Then check the mandate.

The pack is due Tuesday at 3. The numbers are in Excel, the ask is in a thread, the house view is in Word. You are the glue.

Today, Copilot writes, presents and remembers — and you stay the checker.

Five stops. Tap one to jump.

Memo or deck? The reader decides.

Not sure? Read the request again — who is the reader, and will you be in the room?

8:40. Faisal wants a one-page memo by 10 — from your meeting notes. You open Word. The cursor blinks.

The blank page is the slowest part.

A sous-chef. It chops — you plate.

The draft is Copilot's. The judgement is yours.

Watch the page — tap a move.

Move 4: type / and point at a file.

One house view → a summary → a client-ready note.

Copilot's summary says the house view is Positive on equities. Ship it?

Notes in — a memo you'd send out.

Done: draft → rewrite → ground → check every fact.

The trustees meet at 11. The house view on one screen, a blank slide on the other. Copy, paste, shrink the font. Repeat.

Nobody is thinking about the story.

A designer who already read the report — and starts you at draft three.

Create → Generate → Restructure.

Stop making slides. Start editing them.

House view in, client deck out.

Save the file to your OneDrive first. Word or PDF both work.

The deck looks polished — and shows a figure that isn't in the report. Ship it?

A document becomes your deck.

Done: a deck, one new slide, two slides checked line by line. Fast? E2.3.

You've written about ten prompts in two days. Some you need every week. Some Microsoft already wrote. Some only you know. Stop retyping them.

Copilot does the Sunday reading before you arrive.

Four steps. Up to ten schedules.

1. Run the prompt once in Copilot Chat — microsoft365.com/chat, Teams or Outlook.Make sure the answer is what you want first.
2. Hover over your prompt → Schedule this prompt.
3. Choose when it runs, how many times, and turn on the email notification. Save.
4. Results appear in your chat list on the left.Manage them: … → Scheduled prompts → Run now · Turn off · Delete.

Good to schedule: a repeat question about new information. Not a one-off.

Ready-made prompts — find, save, share.

A library prompt is a starting point. Add your CTFT.

The prompts that work for you — in one Word file.

The Gallery is Microsoft's library. This one is yours.

Schedule one. Borrow one. Keep your own.

Done: one scheduled prompt · one Gallery prompt adapted and saved · a Word library with three of your own.

Every Sunday, Faisal's team reads forty client requests: the client, the ask, the deadline, the risks. Same steps every week. An agent remembers it for you.

Copilot with a job description.

Same context three times a week? Build an agent.

Some agents are ready to use.

Copilot app → Agents in the left panel. Not there? Your IT team may not have switched it on.

Use a built-in agent — and check its numbers.

Done: one agent answer checked against numbers you trust · one prompt improved.

Now build your own. Five steps.

1. New agent. Agent Builder opens.Chat on the left · Configure on the right.
2. Describe it in the chat.It fills in the name, description and Instructions.
3. Add knowledge — drop in your files.Turn Web search off.
4. Preview — ask a question you know the answer to.Configure ▾ menu → Preview.
5. Create — top right.Private to you — until you share it.

Instructions are a prompt that never goes away.

Give it files — and know who else sees them.

Build an agent for your field. Then try to break it.

Build 6 min · test six ways 10 min · fix 4 min. Pick your field in the lab — each has its own knowledge file and tests.

Your agent answers a question that isn't in its files — confidently. What do you fix?

The reply matches the request.

Steer, don't retype: “shorter” → “a little warmer”. Then run Coaching before you send.

A second pair of eyes — before you hit Send.

In Outlook: write the draft → select Copilot → Coaching by Copilot. You decide which suggestions to keep.

Four checks, every time.

You sign it. You own it.

Your field. One request. Start to finish — alone.

Seven desks. Pick the one closest to your job.

Everything is in the lab: the email thread, the workbook, the house view. Lab → E2.9 → pick your field.

Five criteria. Help from Copilot is the point.

Work alone. Submit by 2:50 pm: email your final reply with both files attached to aya@joincoded.com.

Build it.

Submit to aya@joincoded.com. Pace: by 13:55 your numbers are done · by 14:35 the brief and the deck · by 14:50 the reply is sent. Finished early? Do the Stretch and Boss in your field.

Show your partner the whole journey.

1. The request — your field, the reader, the real deadline.
2. One number and one chart — the finding that matters most.
3. What I corrected — the one thing Copilot got wrong.

Swap at 2:00. Then the MAP test.

The MAP test — again.

Same test as Sunday morning. 30 minutes. See how far you travelled.

Tell us how it landed.

Five minutes. Then certificates, by name.

From a request in your inbox — to a reply you can stand behind.

Before you go: save your best prompts in Your prompts in Copilot.

Copilot works for you now.

Keep the cheat sheet open. Keep the checker's eye. Thank you.

Outlook

Excel

Word

PowerPoint