Captain CopilotCore skills training

Prompt!Create!Save the day!

Six short missions to master core Copilot skills — before Admiral Analogue drags the office back to the fax era.

Meet the villain
Villain alert

Admiral Analogue has been spotted photocopying the same memo 400 times. Threat level: Beige.

This week’s episodes

Six missions. Six badges. One Admiral with a grudge.

Meanwhile, at the Records Office…

Prompt Like a Pro

Goal, context, source, expectations — the four-part prompt that gets results first time.

15 minPrompt Cadet
Later that morning…

Copilot Chat

Work data vs the web, follow-up questions, and when to ask “show me your sources”.

20 minChat Champion
Deep in the Fog of Paperwork…

Copilot in Word

Draft, rewrite, summarise — and rescue a 40-page report from the Admiral’s Fog of Paperwork.

20 minWord Wrangler
Down at the spreadsheet mines…

Copilot in Excel

Ask questions of your data, add formula columns, chart it in seconds.

25 minFormula Fighter
In the projector room…

Copilot in PowerPoint

Turn a document into a deck; defuse the Admiral’s 97-slide overhead-projector monstrosity.

20 minDeck Defender
Back at the inbox…

Copilot in Outlook & Teams

Summarise threads, draft replies, catch up on meetings you heroically missed.

20 minInbox Invincible

Villain files

Our hero. Our menace. Our weekly cliff-hanger.

The heroCaptain Copilot

Captain Copilot

Powers: summarises at the speed of light, drafts with one eyebrow raised, always asks a good follow-up question. Weakness: vague prompts.

The villainAdmiral Analogue

Admiral Analogue

Powers: carbon paper, the 400-page appendix, Reply All. Signature move: the Filing Cabinet Avalanche. Weakness: a well-structured prompt.

Gadget Lab

Three gadgets for the utility belt.

The Four-Part Prompt

Goal + context + source + expectations. Say all four. Win.

Reference a file with /

Type / and pick the document — Copilot reads that, not the whole archive.

Ask for a table

“Put that in a table: owner, date, status.” Instant clarity.

Leaderboard

Your rank:Prompt Cadet2 of 6 missions complete · 340 points

  1. 1The Manchester Marvels1,240
  2. 2Team Leeds1,105
  3. 3Desk 4B980

To be continued…Will the Captain untangle the Admiral’s 400-memo mystery? Will anyone read the appendix?Tune in next mission — same Prompt-Time, same Prompt-Channel!