December 2025

Explore the potential of Microsoft 365 Copilot to support your daily work and help you stay organized. This intermediate session focuses on practical ways to use Copilot within Microsoft 365 to increase efficiency, improve clarity, and simplify routine tasks.

Session objectives:

• Summarize and respond to emails in ways that reduce inbox overload and help you focus on what matters most.

• Create task lists and reminders directly from Outlook, Teams, and documents to keep projects moving forward.

• Turn long documents and meeting notes into clear, manageable action steps.

• Set up a personalized Copilot agent that reflects your own role and preferences.

• Use organizational knowledge and shared resources to make well-informed decisions more quickly.

Whether you are coordinating projects, working across departments, or looking for ways to streamline your workflow, this session offers hands-on techniques to help you use Microsoft 365 more effectively with the support of Copilot.

In this hands-on workshop, participants become familiar with the basic tools for data management in Microsoft Excel. Participants learn how to import, extract, and manipulate spreadsheet data. Participants also use some of Excel’s tools to work more efficiently, including data validation, PivotTables, and PivotCharts. Note: This session uses Excel on the Windows platform. This session is not for Excel Online.

Objectives
Learners will:

• Explore ways to import data from external sources into Excel for analysis
• Specify criteria to control data entered into a worksheet
• Create pivot tables to explore, analyze, and summarize data sets

Learning Path
You may also consider reviewing our Excel Learning Path, for self-paced and sequential step-by-step resources.