# Microsoft Copilot at work: what changes when AI is inside your office tools?

Original 5HO practice material. Fictional example. Reviewed 5 October 2026.

## Useful result

You'll finish with a checked work update based on a known source available to Microsoft Copilot.

Copilot inside work tools can use context that a standalone chat does not have. What it can reach depends on the product, licence and your permissions. Start with one document you know you can open yourself.

## Set up

Allow 20–30 minutes in your organisation’s Microsoft 365 environment. Work-data access varies by licence and administrator configuration. Do not assume that seeing a Copilot button grants access to every file.

## Practice input

Test document: Training Pilot Note. It states: four people attended; two requested a follow-up; next date undecided. Task: draft a short status update with a link back to this document.

## Do the task

1. Open the test document and confirm its contents before asking Copilot.
2. Select or reference that document using the app’s supported controls.
3. Inspect the linked sources and correct anything taken from an unrelated conversation.

## Prompt

Using only Training Pilot Note, draft a status update under 100 words. Cite the document. Keep the next date undecided and do not invent attendance feedback.

## Refine

Tell me if you could not access the named file. I can provide the practice text, but that would test drafting rather than work-data retrieval.

## Expected checks

The result should preserve four attendees and two follow-up requests. Existing permissions still matter; a summary is not proof that the underlying file has the correct sharing settings.

## Save

Save the checked draft with its source link and note whether connected retrieval actually worked.

## Sources

- What information Microsoft Copilot uses: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/what-information-does-copilot-use-to-answer-my-prompt