Start by Product — "What can I even do?"

Pick the app you already have open and the job in front of you. Get three things to try right now.

Most people don't wake up thinking "I'd like to climb the AI maturity ladder." They think "I'm in Outlook drowning in email — can Copilot help?" This page starts from there: your app, your job, three moves you can make in the next five minutes.

Prefer a different entry point?

• Know your skill level? Use Start by Stage and its 2-minute self-check.
• Want it grouped by your job? Use Start by Role.

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Pick your app

• 📧 Outlook — Email & Calendar

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  You live in your inbox and calendar. Use Copilot to clear the backlog, reply faster, and walk into your week prepared.

  3 things to try right now:

  • Catch up on a long email thread in seconds
  • Rewrite an email for the right tone
  • Plan your week from your calendar and inbox

  → Everything in Outlook

• 👥 Teams — Meetings & Chat

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  Meetings and channels are where work happens — and where it gets lost. Use Copilot so nothing slips and you stay caught up.

  3 things to try right now:

  • Turn a meeting into tracked follow-ups
  • Catch up on a Teams thread in seconds
  • Auto-recap a meeting as the facilitator

  → Everything in Teams

• 📄 Word — Documents

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  Reading and writing documents is half the job. Use Copilot to get up to speed fast and draft in minutes, not hours.

  3 things to try right now:

  • Get up to speed on a long document fast
  • Draft a project plan from a rough brief
  • Adapt content for a different audience

  → Everything in Word

• 📊 PowerPoint — Presentations

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  Turn raw notes and decisions into a story you can present — without starting from a blank slide.

  3 things to try right now:

  • Build a deck from your notes
  • Draft an executive briefing
  • Adapt content for a different audience

  → Everything in PowerPoint

• 🔢 Excel — Data & Analysis

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  Make sense of a dataset and turn numbers into answers you can explain — even if you're not a spreadsheet wizard.

  3 things to try right now:

  • Analyze a dataset with the Analyst agent
  • Draft a project plan from a rough brief
  • Brainstorm options when you're stuck

  → Everything in Excel

• 💬 Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat — Across everything

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  The one place Copilot can see across your email, files, meetings, and chats. Start here when your question spans more than one app.

  3 things to try right now:

  • Catch up across your work with grounded chat
  • See the agents already in your license
  • Run a "Prompt of the Day" to build the habit

  → Everything in Copilot Chat

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Not sure which app?

Pick by the job, not the app — Copilot Chat in the M365 app can reach across all of them:

If your job is…	Start with
Clearing an inbox or replying faster	Summarize a long email thread
Capturing what a meeting decided	Turn a meeting into follow-ups
Understanding a long document	Get up to speed on a document
Writing something from scratch	Draft a project plan
Building a deck	Build a deck from notes
Making sense of data	Analyze a dataset
Finding something across all your work	Grounded chat across your work

📚 Learn more. Microsoft's Copilot for each app hub shows where Copilot appears across Microsoft 365.

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