Copilot Prompts Cheat Sheet: 34 Prompts for Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams

Draft a two-paragraph email to the finance team explaining why the Q3 report is a week late, using my notes below. Plain English, no apologies, end with the new date of 24 October.

Before you answer, ask me any questions you need to get this right.

Summarise this thread. List what has been agreed, what is still open, and who owes the next reply.

Draft a reply that accepts the Tuesday 2pm slot, asks for the agenda by Friday, and is under 80 words.

Rewrite this in a more direct tone for a senior stakeholder. Keep every fact and date, cut the hedging.

Which emails from the last seven days are waiting on a reply from me?

Write a short email to the team announcing the office move to 4 Park Row on 3 November. Two sentences, friendly, no exclamation marks.

Draft a one-page project update from the notes below: one status line, three risks each with an owner, and next steps as a numbered list.

Summarise this document in five bullet points for someone who has not read it and has two minutes.

Turn the paragraph under the heading 'Pricing' into a table with the columns Plan, Monthly cost and What is included.

Rewrite the 'Background' section at half the length without losing any numbers, names or dates.

Suggest three alternative titles for this document, each under eight words, for an audience of HR managers.

Reference /Q3-review.docx and write an executive summary of it, 150 words, for the board.

Highlight the rows where Amount is more than 1,000 and Status is Open.

Add a column that shows the number of days between Order date and Ship date.

Show the total Amount by Region as a bar chart, largest first.

What are the three biggest drivers of the drop in Amount between March and April?

Add a column that groups Amount into Small under 100, Medium from 100 to 999, and Large at 1,000 and over.

Sort by Region then by Amount, largest first, and filter to orders from 2026.

Create a presentation from /Q3-review.docx with one slide per heading and a summary slide at the end.

Add a slide after slide 4 comparing the two options as a two-column table: cost, timeline, risk.

Write speaker notes for this slide in a conversational tone, about 60 seconds of talking.

Summarise this deck in five bullet points I can paste into an email to people who missed the session.

Rewrite the text on this slide so it is three bullets of under ten words each.

Recap this meeting: decisions made, action items with an owner and a date for each, and anything left unresolved.

What did Priya say about the launch date?

I joined late. Catch me up in three bullets.

Were there any points where people disagreed, and how was each resolved?

Draft a message to the Project Horizon channel saying the go-live has moved to 17 November, two sentences, friendly.

What is new on the Horizon project since Monday? Check my email, Teams chats and files, and give me the five things that changed.

Prepare me for my 2pm with Dan Hughes: our recent emails, the notes from our last meeting, and any open actions between us.

Find the latest version of the training proposal for Acme and tell me who last edited it and when.

Write my weekly update for my manager from the emails I sent and the meetings I attended this week. Headings: Done, In progress, Blocked.

Show which document or message each point in your answer came from.