Prompt Like a Pro
Goal, context, source, expectations — the four-part prompt that gets results first time.
Six short missions to master core Copilot skills — before Admiral Analogue drags the office back to the fax era.
Admiral Analogue has been spotted photocopying the same memo 400 times. Threat level: Beige.
Six lockers, six skills. Open one, grab the kit, earn the badge on the door.
Goal, context, source, expectations — the four-part prompt that gets results first time.
Work data vs the web, follow-up questions, and when to ask “show me your sources”.
Draft, rewrite, summarise — and rescue a 40-page report from the Admiral’s Fog of Paperwork.
Ask questions of your data, add formula columns, chart it in seconds.
Turn a document into a deck; defuse the Admiral’s 97-slide overhead-projector monstrosity.
Summarise threads, draft replies, catch up on meetings you heroically missed.
Two folders pulled from the cabinet. One of them was filed under “B” for Beige.
Powers: summarises at the speed of light, drafts with one eyebrow raised, always asks a good follow-up question. Weakness: vague prompts.
Powers: carbon paper, the 400-page appendix, Reply All. Signature move: the Filing Cabinet Avalanche. Weakness: a well-structured prompt.
Three switches worth flipping. And one button we would rather you left alone.
Goal, context, source, expectations. Say all four and the machine obeys first time.
Type / and pick the document — Copilot reads that file, not the whole archive.
“Show that as a table with owner, date and status.” Rows and columns on demand.
The gauge reads your progress. The readouts show who is ahead of you. For now.
YOUR RANK: PROMPT CADET · 2 OF 6 MISSIONS · 340 PTS