M365 Copilot Field Guide
27 reference guides for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Browser-readable, print-ready, free to view. No account required.
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Published April 2026 · Updated as features change
Which Copilot do you have?
Two of the three labels are free, and nothing in the app announces which one you are on. Copilot for Busy People compares them, then gives you one page for your tier: five habits, six lines to paste, and an honest list of what it still gets wrong. Free, and it never asks for an email.
Copilot Weekly
The change log. What changed in Copilot this week, and what it means for a rollout. These guides get updated from it.
Read this week's →Copilot on One Page
The three-page sheet: what to check before you send anything Copilot wrote. Free.
Get the sheet, free →Decision Map
Not sure which Copilot to use? Start here.
Open guide →Failure Triage
Copilot not working? This table has your answer.
Open guide →IT Deployment Kit
Five methods for distributing guides org-wide: Teams tab, SharePoint, Viva Connections.
Open guide →Watch the series: M365 Copilot Tutorials
The guides as short videos, each one verified against the live product and stamped with its verification date.
- 1 · Copilot Chat vs M365 Copilot: which one you have · 3:19
- 2 · Grounding: your files, mail, and meetings · 3:22
- 3 · Creating your first agent, no code · 2:41
- 4 · Agent knowledge sources: the 3 toggles · 3:29
- 5 · Notebooks: pin 300 documents, query them forever · 3:30
- 6 · Researcher: scoping, the model picker, a real run · 3:28
- 7 · Analyst: upload data, get analysis, read the code · 3:40
- 8 · Scheduled prompts: the Monday-morning automation · 3:47
- 9 · Copilot in Outlook: draft, summarise, coach, live · 3:36
- 10 · Copilot in Word: one instruction to a full draft · 2:58
- 11 · Copilot in Excel: Agent Mode builds a table, live · 2:19
- 12 · Copilot in Teams: no transcript, no Copilot, proven live · 3:01
Chat Data Scope
What each licence tier can see: free vs paid.
Open guide →@ References (Context IQ)
Pin a file, email, meeting, or person as a source.
Open guide →Work IQ
The intelligence layer under Copilot: the MCP, A2A, and REST APIs, what runs on it, and what it costs in Copilot Credits.
Open guide →Prompt Hygiene
Role · Task · Context · Format: the four-part formula.
Open guide →Scheduled Prompts
Automated recurring prompts: setup, limits, failures.
Open guide →Copilot Notebooks
Persistent workspaces grounded on up to 300 files.
Open guide →Copilot Pages
Share Copilot output as a collaborative document.
Open guide →Teams Meetings
Before, during, and after: transcript requirements.
Open guide →Audio & Video Recap
Narrated meeting highlights in 8 languages: how to enable, when to use.
Open guide →Word / PowerPoint / Excel
In-app Copilot: what each app can and cannot do.
Open guide →Copilot Studio Agents
Deploy team-wide agents with no code.
Open guide →Copilot in Outlook
Draft, summarise, coach, prep: every Outlook feature.
Open guide →Prioritize My Inbox
Ranks every incoming email High, Normal, or Low using sender signals and up to 15 plain-English rules.
Open guide →Memory & Personalization
What Copilot saves across conversations, what you control, and what IT manages.
Open guide →Copilot Analytics for Admins
Measure adoption, identify underuse, and see what employees ask Copilot, via the Copilot Dashboard in Viva Insights.
Open guide →Which Microsoft agent tool do you actually need?
Before you build one: Agent Builder, Copilot Studio, or Microsoft Foundry Agent Service. Four questions, a decision tree you can screenshot into a deck, and what each one puts on IT’s desk, including the tenant-wide agent registry and the two numbers on it worth more than the total.
Some of these agents consume Copilot Credits. For the numbers, see M365 Copilot agent cost and pricing (2026).
Researcher Agent
Deep multi-step research across web and org data with cited structured reports.
Open guide →Analyst Agent
Upload data files, get charts, trend summaries, and calculations, no formulas.
Open guide →Facilitator Agent
Live collaborative notes and real-time Q&A during Teams meetings.
Open guide →Interpreter Agent
Speech-to-speech translation during Teams meetings and calls.
Open guide →Visual Creator Agent
Generate images and visuals from text descriptions for decks and comms.
Open guide →Coaching Agents
Five built-in agents for ideation, writing, prompting, skills, and career planning.
Open guide →Copilot Cowork
Agentic execution layer: describe an outcome, Cowork searches your M365 data and takes action with your explicit approval.
Open guide →Workflows (Frontier)
Describe what you want to automate, and Workflows builds scheduled summaries, approvals, and Teams notifications from a single sentence.
Open guide →Microsoft Scout (Frontier)
The first always-on Autopilot: an autonomous agent with its own Entra identity that acts on your files, shell, and browser. What IT and risk owners must decide before enabling it.
Open guide →Get the full pack as PDF
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