From the course: Copilot in Word: Create and Refine Documents with AI (February 2024)
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Drafting a new document from scratch
From the course: Copilot in Word: Create and Refine Documents with AI (February 2024)
Drafting a new document from scratch
- [Instructor] Copilot is a great resource to have at your fingertips when you're staring at the proverbial blank slate, wondering where to start with the document that you need to create. Notice we have a Copilot icon here in the left margin area of the document. I'll click out to open up the Draft with Copilot window. When you write a command or a request to an AI, what you're writing is called a prompt. Now, we're not going to get too deeply into all the best practices of prompt writing in this course, but as a general rule, it's a good idea to be clear about what you want, to provide some context, and to be as specific as possible. So for example, let's say I'm a manager and I want to create a document to help guide my employees through the process of writing their annual self-review. To have Copilot help me draft this document from scratch, I might write something like, "Act as a manager and generate a set of…