Work Smarter: Use the Power of AI with Microsoft 365 to Automate and Innovate your work
Want to spend less time on repetitive tasks and more time on what actually matters? This hands-on workshop will show you how to use tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot and Google’s NotebookLM to work smarter and quicker with Excel, Word, and Outlook.
Whether it’s tidying up or analysing data, writing emails or reports, sparking new ideas or researching across multiple documents and videos, this workshop will show you practical ways to save time and boost your day-to-day productivity while improving your skills in Microsoft 365.

CONTENT COVERED:
Introduction to Generative AI:
- What are Generative AI Chatbots?
- How do they work and how do we “talk” to and interact with them?
- How can they help you in your day-to-day use of Microsoft 365?
Excel:
- Automate and simplify spreadsheets (conditional formatting, data validation etc.)
- Generate and learn formula and functions
- Analyse and clean-up data
- Examples: Writing and explaining formula and functions, analysing data, automating and simplifying by applying tables, conditional formatting, data validation rules, and “cleaning” data.
Word:
- Draft content
- Edit, and refine text, generate content ideas and outlines
- Search and analyse multiple documents and videos
- Examples: Draft: reports, templates, policies, adverts, web page, policies, blog posts; Generate: mindmaps, cheat sheets, FAQ; Create: a library of documents to interrogate.
Outlook:
- Draft quick, professional email replies
- Integrate email and calendar
- Summarise long email threads and edit and improve email drafts
- Examples: Create: draft emails based on specific data in a particular tone and length, “template” emails to use in automated replies; Edit: draft emails to check for tone, style, natural language etc.

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