MIcrosoft Co-Pilot for Windows Tips and Tricks

Want to try your hand at Microsoft Co-Pilot? Here are some great tips and tricks to get you started.

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Activating Microsoft CoPilot (Windows 11)

Copilot in Windows is an AI-powered assistant that helps you get answers and inspirations from across the web, supports creativity and collaboration, and helps you focus on the task at hand.  MIcrosoft CoPilot is included with Windows 11, if you do not see it on your taskbar, here is how you enable it.

Change the Response Style in CoPilot

Copilot in Windows is an AI-powered assistant that helps you get answers and inspirations from across the web, supports creativity and collaboration, and helps you focus on the task at hand.  Microsoft CoPilot can respond in 2 distinct styles: Creative or Precise, or it can be balanced between the two.  The default is "Balanced" - Want to change it?  Here's how!

How to Open Microsoft CoPilot on your Laptop

Copilot in Windows is an AI-powered assistant that helps you get answers and inspirations from across the web, supports creativity and collaboration, and helps you focus on the task at hand.  MIcrosoft CoPilot is included with Windows 11 and is activated on the Laptops for Learners laptops and the most recent faculty and staff laptop rollout.  Here is how you access CoPilot.

Use CoPilot to Change Windows 11 System Settings

Copilot in Windows is an AI-powered assistant that helps you get answers and inspirations from across the web, supports creativity and collaboration, and helps you focus on the task at hand. Microsoft CoPilot has access to most of Windows settings -- and that means you can change them from CoPilot without navigating Windows.  Here's how!

Use CoPilot to Generate Images

Copilot in Windows is an AI-powered assistant that helps you get answers and inspirations from across the web, supports creativity and collaboration, and helps you focus on the task at hand. Microsoft CoPilot can generate images based on your imagination.  Want to create an image of a cat riding a dragon?  Sure, who doesn't?  Here's how!

Using CoPilot to Analyze Images

Copilot in Windows is an AI-powered assistant that helps you get answers and inspirations from across the web, supports creativity and collaboration, and helps you focus on the task at hand. This tip will help you use CoPilot to create a summary and analysis of images.

Using CoPilot to Launch Applications

Copilot in Windows is an AI-powered assistant that helps you get answers and inspirations from across the web, supports creativity and collaboration, and helps you focus on the task at hand. Microsoft CoPilot has access to the applications you have installed on your computer -- and that means you can launch them from CoPilot without navigating Windows.  Here's how!

Using CoPilot to Summarize OneDrive Files

Copilot in Windows is an AI-powered assistant that helps you get answers and inspirations from across the web, supports creativity and collaboration, and helps you focus on the task at hand.  Microsoft CoPilot is included with Windows 11 and is activated on the Laptops for Learners' laptops and the most recent faculty and staff laptop rollout. However, this feature may not be active at the time that Laptops for Learners launches.  Microsoft has slated this to be available in the Summer of 2024.

Using CoPilot with Notepad to Explain and Summarize Text

Copilot in Windows is an AI-powered assistant that helps you get answers and inspirations from across the web, supports creativity and collaboration, and helps you focus on the task at hand.  This tip will help you use CoPilot to take text that you have in MIcrosoft Notepad, and CoPilot will summarize the text for you.