Using Copilot to Demo Copilot

In today’s fast-moving digital world, creating compelling demo content is essential to showcasing the capabilities of various tools and technologies. Microsoft Copilot can significantly simplify this process. In this article, we will look at how to create sample demo content using Microsoft Copilot and provide a step-by-step guide to making your demo more effective and engaging. Let’s look at three scenarios for creating a great Copilot demo. Meeting Summary, Excel and Outlook.

Conference Summary Demonstration

Now you know that Microsoft Teams Premium automatically creates useful Recap notes (also known as Intelligent Recap) from recorded meetings. Here’s an example:

When demonstrating this feature, it is best to use fictitious information in a demo tenant. However, the most effective examples often come from real-world meetings, where multiple participants discuss real topics, making the summary much more relevant.

Fortunately, you don’t always have to rely on real meetings to demonstrate this feature, since you can let Copilot generate conversations for you. To get started, ask Copilot to create a fake script of two people talking about a project. For example, you might say something like this:

The results are as follows:

Once Copilot has generated your initial content, review it carefully. While Copilot is very advanced, it is essential to customize and improve the content so that it meets your goals and resonates with your audience. Add specific details, examples, or anecdotes that will make your demo more relevant and engaging. The goal is to create content that not only informs, but also captivates your audience.

If you have a script, you can use it to summarize your meeting by following these steps:

• Paste the script into the following location: Read out loud Features. Copilot can certainly read your responses out loud, but you might consider pasting your script into Microsoft Word, which has controls to adjust the reading speed and the type of voice used.
• Set up a new Teams meeting in your demo tenant and invite a second persona to impersonate.
• Sign up as a demo user using one device, and sign up as a second user using another device. This can be a laptop and a phone with Teams Mobile.
• Make sure both devices can hear the third device reading the script. If you don’t have a third device, you can read the script out loud yourself.
• Record the meeting so that each device’s microphone receives the transcript. The tricky part at this point is to ensure that speaker attribution occurs correctly by muting and unmuting each “speaker” at the appropriate times.

When you’re done, you’ll have a neat summary like the one at the beginning of this section.

If you use Copilot for Microsoft 365 (integrated with Teams and other M365 apps), you can also ask follow-up questions about the meeting, for example, if you wanted to check on tone or sentiment.

(You can be sure that Copilot will pick up on these emotions by intentionally modifying Copilot’s generated scripts to include anxious expressions.)

Using these steps, you can now demo with a fully simulated meeting with a summary and AI-generated follow-up actions, without worrying about sharing actual content.

Demonstrating Copilot in Excel

You can showcase Copilot in Excel using simulated data. For example, you can ask Copilot to generate mock data suitable for use by an accounting firm. For example:

Either way, we can now demonstrate the power of Copilot for Microsoft 365 by asking it to analyze some new sample data in Excel. For example, you might want Copilot to tell you the average amount of your unpaid invoices…

…or you can ask Copilot in Excel to highlight the rows that represent your unpaid invoices.

Copilot demonstration in Outlook

Finally, let me introduce you to the impressive features of Copilot in Outlook, such as the ability to concisely summarize long emails, extract key points, and even draft replies that match the context and tone of the original communication, thereby increasing productivity and streamlining communication workflows.

The emails we encounter every day contain a lot of nuance, and incorporating as many of those nuances into your sample content will improve the quality of your demo material. For example, consider the following prompt:

This will generate a sample email similar to the following, containing emotions such as frustration or anxiety:

By writing a few emails that cover a variety of topics and are tailored to the industry or community you are presenting your demo material to, you will have enough material to demonstrate an effective Copilot scenario like this:

• Look for recent emails that seem urgent or irritating.
• Find emails that need immediate action based on their content
• Create an email list in a table format with columns like “Needs,” “Priority,” or “Tone” that you can fill in based on sample content.

In addition to running these queries using Copilot in Outlook on your desktop or mobile device, you can also run them in Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Teams, Windows, or in the browser interface.

Using Microsoft Copilot to create sample demo content can greatly enhance your ability to effectively showcase your tools and technologies. By following these steps, you can leverage the power of AI to generate high-quality content, customize it to your goals, and deliver compelling demos that captivate your audience. Embrace the power of Microsoft Copilot and take your demo content to the next level!

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