Leverage several Copilot tools in Microsoft Teams

There are several copilot tools in Microsoft Teams, so let's take a quick look at some of those features. First, copilot can help you revise messages that you write in Teams. So you could start from a Team channel and click the button to post a new message, then type your message. And at the bottom of the message field, there is a copilot button, which opens the Rewrite panel. In the Adjust menu, you can choose a different tone or length. Or, you can simply click Rewrite to see the revision that Copilot suggests. If you don't want to keep it, you can just close this panel. Or you can click Replace if you do want to keep the revised version. So you can do that in a team channel. Or if you go to the chat section and select a chat conversation, you will see that same Copilot Rewrite option is available for messages in a chat as well. Next we'll see how CoPilot can help you by offering summaries or answering questions about your chat conversations. So I'm already in the chat section, and I've selected this conversation with my co-worker, and I'm looking for some specific information that we've discussed in the past. Instead of scrolling back and reading through all of these messages, I can ask CoPilot. I see the CoPilot button near the top right, and that opens the CoPilot panel. And you can ask for a summary or ask it to find action items from your conversation. I'll ask it to give me highlights from the past 30 days. And I get a summary of everything we've discussed recently. You can also click more prompts to see more suggestions of things that you can ask. But I'll ask a direct question. I'll ask, what is the status of the Connecticut contracts? And it answers the question and even includes citation links. I can click a citation to go to the exact message where it found that information. And you can also ask follow-up questions, and you can have an ongoing chat conversation with the AI. And finally, you can use the business chat inside of Microsoft Teams. When you're in the chat section in Teams, there's a big copilot option at the top of your chat list. This is completely different from the copilot button that we used inside of a chat with a specific person. When you select this big copilot option, you can chat directly with copilot itself. So this is not giving you information about a specific conversation. Instead, this is business chat. Remember at the beginning of this workshop when we were on the copilot website and there was a switch for work or web? When you choose the work mode, you can ask questions about your schedule, your teammates, your documents, and other information in your organization. And this is the same experience you get when you choose the main copilot chat in Teams. This is business chat. So I'll ask it to summarize the marketing review meeting this week. And it gives me that summary using private, secure information about a meeting I had in Teams with my coworkers. And by the way, asking for a summary of a meeting like this will only work if that meeting was recorded. Now you are not limited to questions about your organization here. I could ask something like, how is the weather in London? And Copilot can still answer that question using information from the public internet. But take a look at this. You can click the Plugins button in the chat field. And you see that I have the plugin for Web Content enabled. If you do not want Copilot to use information from the public internet here in the business chat, you can disable this plugin. So if you spend a lot of time working in Microsoft Teams, this may be your best way to to work with the business chat.