Captain CopilotCore skills training
No. 1Autumn 2026£0.00 (free)
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Core skills training presents

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

Can Captain Copilot survive the Filing Cabinet Avalanche?! See Mission 3!

Admiral Analogue looms in front of toppling filing cabinets, brandishing a Reply All stamp Captain Copilot stands firm, hands on hips, cape billowing

In this issue

Six missions · collect all six badges

  1. Mission 1

    Prompt Like a Pro

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

    15 minBadge: Prompt Cadet
  2. Mission 2

    Copilot Chat

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

    20 minBadge: Chat Champion
  3. Mission 3

    Copilot in Word

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

    20 minBadge: Word Wrangler
  4. Mission 4

    Copilot in Excel

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

    25 minBadge: Formula Fighter
  5. Mission 5

    Copilot in PowerPoint

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

    20 minBadge: Deck Defender
  6. Mission 6

    Copilot in Outlook & Teams

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

    20 minBadge: Inbox Invincible

Meet the cast

Villain files · two-page splash

Captain Copilot, hands on hips
The hero

Captain Copilot

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

Weakness: vague prompts.

Admiral Analogue with his Reply All stamp
The villain

Admiral Analogue

Powers: carbon paper, the 400-page appendix, Reply All. Signature move: the Filing Cabinet Avalanche.

Weakness: a well-structured prompt.

Gadget lab

Back-page adverts · three gadgets no cadet should be without

  • Amazing!

    The Four-Part Prompt

    Goal, context, source, expectations — say all four and Copilot rarely needs a second go.

    Only 4 easy steps

  • New!

    Reference a file with /

    Type / in the prompt box to point Copilot at the exact document you mean.

    Works on any document

  • Astonishing!

    Ask for a table

    “Put that in a table with columns for…” turns a wall of text into something you can actually scan.

    Rows and columns included

Fan mail

Leaderboard · letters to the Captain

Dear Captain…

A note from the editor: you are currently ranked Prompt Cadet, with 2 of 6 missions complete and 340 points in the bank. Two badges down, four to go — the Admiral has noticed, and he is not pleased.

Finish Mission 3 to earn the Word Wrangler badge and we will print your name in the next issue. Probably in a speech bubble.

— The Editor