Overview

This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the skills necessary to effectively utilise Copilot within Microsoft Excel. The ability to formulate effective queries that lead to relevant responses is crucial for maximising the benefits of AI tools in all work environments.

The workshop is a hands-on session in practical techniques for interacting with Copilot, ensuring participants can navigate its features with confidence and precision. By embracing program-specific approaches to AI, participants will enhance their personal competencies and become more efficient and productive.

The workshop can be delivered standalone or combined with our other Copilot workshops as a package. If combined, the generic content is reduced to 30 minutes and each additional workshop appended as additional 60 minutes.

Who should attend

This workshop is ideal for employees who want to enhance their Microsoft Excel skills with AI tools and foster a culture of continuous improvement within their teams and organisations.

Skills you’ll learn

  • Access and navigate Copilot efficiently
  • Craft effective prompts for precise results
  • Generate, debug and refine formulas
  • Analyse trends using charts and graphs
  • Summarise and highlight key text insights
  • Extract, categorise and organise data labels

Learning outcomes

  • Build clear prompts in Copilot when using Excel
  • Use Copilot to generate formulas in Excel
  • Visualise Excel data using Copilot prompts

Why Swinburne?

Delivered by facilitators who are industry experts

Participant course training manual

Live Online delivery allows you to do the course from anywhere

Access to our team of Customer Development Advisors

Course dates

Contact us to arrange a course delivery date that suits your organisational needs.

What your course could look like

Overview
Accessing Copilot
Creating effective prompts for Copilot
The do's and don'ts of prompt creation
Formulas: writing, explaining and asking questions
Generating and customising formulas
Understanding and debugging formulas
Analyse and visualise data
Creating charts and graphs
Identifying trends and insights
Summarise a column of text
Condensing long entries
Highlighting important keywords
Extract labels and delineate text
Separating key data points
Categorising and organising text data
Summary
Reflection on learnings
Workplace application
Live Online Delivery

Our Live Online delivery

Our Live Online delivery is a dynamic, engaging and interactive way to learn remotely. It’s just like face-to-face but with the added benefits of digital technology. Your facilitator will present in real-time, and you will be able to participate in group discussions and collaborate on exercises and group activities using our interactive platforms.

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