How to Use Microsoft Copilot in Outlook & Teams: Enhance Your Communications

About this video

Kevin demonstrates Microsoft Copilot inside Teams and Outlook to communicate faster and stay on top of meetings. In Teams he stresses starting transcription at the beginning of a meeting, since Copilot needs the transcript to summarize and answer questions, though meetings can be preconfigured to allow Copilot without transcription. He joins late and catches up by asking what has been covered, who raised an idea, with citations back to the transcript, and what questions remain unresolved, then reviews the automatic recap with AI notes and follow-up tasks after the meeting. He also uses Copilot to summarize long channel threads, find his action items, and rewrite his own messages to be more concise or change tone, noting Copilot refines drafts rather than writing new chat messages. The Copilot app can be pinned in Teams and can reference people, files, meetings, and emails you have access to, and in Outlook it summarizes long email threads, drafts replies from prompts, and coaches writing.

Key takeaways

• Start transcription early; Copilot needs it to summarize and answer meeting questions
• Ask Copilot what was covered and what is unresolved to catch up mid-meeting
• Post-meeting recaps include AI notes, follow-up tasks, and the full transcript
• Copilot rewrites your Teams messages for length and tone but will not draft new ones
• In Outlook, Copilot summarizes threads, drafts replies, and coaches your writing

Episode details: published September 27, 2024 · 17:50 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kevin Stratvert’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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