Delegate work with Copilot Cowork
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Copilot Cowork carries out multistep work on your behalf across Microsoft 365. In this learning path, you'll start by learning what Cowork is, when to use it, and how to write requests that produce useful results. You'll then apply it to the work that fills your week: triaging your inbox and calendar, prepping for meetings, and producing deliverables that span multiple apps. Finally, you'll make recurring work run on its own with scheduled tasks and reusable custom skills.
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with Copilot Chat.
- Basic functional experience with Microsoft 365 apps such as Outlook, Teams, and Word.
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Modules in this learning path
Copilot Cowork carries out tasks on your behalf across Microsoft 365. Describe what you need in natural language, and it does the work—sending emails, scheduling meetings, creating documents, posting in Teams, and managing files. This module shows you when to use it, how to write requests that produce useful results, and what it can do today.
Most of your day isn't single tasks — it's the coordination between them. This module shows you how to apply Copilot Cowork to the recurring work that fills your week: describe an outcome once and let Cowork triage your inbox, prepare for meetings and follow through, and pull across your apps to produce a finished deliverable. Each unit teaches a transferable pattern, not a one-off task, and shows what sets Cowork apart from a chat assistant — it acts across your apps, works over time, and hands back real artifacts.
This module shows you how to stop redoing the same work by hand: set Cowork tasks to run on their own, on a schedule, or in response to an event. Capture a repeatable process or writing voice as a reusable skill, and understand how plugins and connectors extend Cowork into the tools your team already uses