Nobody reads your Copilot-generated deck any harder than they read your old one
Making slides was tedious. Tedium was never the reason nobody read them. Generating the deck faster just means the nothing arrives sooner, in a better font.
Prompting
// 6 postsTutorials, tips, and deep dives on Prompting — every post from bianca.codes tagged Prompting.
Prompting posts
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Copilot in Outlook: turning a forty-email thread into the three lines that matter
A forty-email thread compresses to four lines once you know what Copilot's thread summary actually does, and doesn't do.
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Most 'Copilot doesn't work' complaints are a prompting problem wearing a product complaint's clothes
A four-word prompt and a disappointed face is not a product review. Where vague requests actually break, and how to tell a real Copilot failure from a thin question.
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A week of actually using Copilot: what a beginner discovers (and what trips them up)
Seven days actually driving Copilot across Excel, Word and PowerPoint - the wins, the confidently wrong deck, and the habit that mattered more than any prompt.
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Copilot in Excel: the moment it clicks for a beginner
The first time a plain-English request turns into a real, inspectable Excel formula, the tool stops feeling abstract - and the habit that keeps it honest.
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One Copilot prompt that summarises a 20-tab workbook
The one Copilot prompt that turns twenty unlabelled tabs into a sheet-by-sheet summary, outliers included, in under a minute.