If you want to have assistance for your Microsoft Office productivity, the Copilot can be your answer. You can use the Copilot in your device or windows. Even some of hardware have their own dedicated button. On this article, we want to share five tips that you can use for your Copilot.
Tips 1. Sign in with your Work Account
If you have Office 365 for your organization, you should sign in with that account rather than your account. By using Office 365 organization, you get a protected data badge. This means your data won't be used as training data or processed.
Tips 2. Activate copilot pro or copilot for M365
You can activate the Copilot Pro or Copilot for M365
- buying the Copilot Pro by signing in with your account
- obtain Copilot for Microsoft 365 by signing in with your office account
If you don't have a work account for Copilot Pro for Microsoft 365, I recommend using an Office personal / Office family subscription. It costs you cheaper than using Copilot for Microsoft 365
Tips 3, Activate the Copilot in your Office
After you want to get assistance for your Office you can use these steps
1. Install the Office 365 apps with your license, If you have both licenses (Copilot Pro + office apps), it will activate the Copilot in Microsoft Office
2. Install the Office 365 apps with a work account. If you have the correct license that includes Copilot for M365, the Copilot can be seen in the home tab
You can't combine the license. For example, you have Copilot Pro + Office 365 apps. Business standards won't make the Copilot shown.
Tips 4. Buy Copilot Pro with your personal because it the cheapest
if your company doesn't have Copilot for M365; you can obtain the Copilot by using your account. My recommendation is to buy from a marketplace such as Google Play / Apple because it is the cheapest one,
Tips 5. Prompt engineering
Learn the prompt engineering in your Copilot. For example, you need to know how to add prompt engineering to create a document of add slides presentation. Please refer to the help section on your Office. Or ask Copilot what things that can be helped
In conclusion, you can use Copilot in your Windows, Office, and get the cheapest rate.
in the previous post, I discussed about the choice for the developer to develop in the top of Office 365 platform. Today I will discuss about what kind of scenario and proper technology that you can use to build proper scenario for your customer.
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Single Sign on Scenario
This is the most useful scenario. Office 365 works as a cloud identity provider. You can register your office 365 tenant in Azure Active Directory. It works as your identity provider. Learn more about SSO scenario here
Accessing the Data from Office 365 Platform
After you authenticate the user, you can obtain the data from the Office 365 platform. This can be done by registering an application as Azure App and give the proper permission. You can learn in through here
Interacting with the Document
This can be done through Add-In model. The Add-In model works with Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and many Office 365 desktop application. You can learn here
Designing for Instant Collaboration
This can be done by creating application in Teams. You can create app integration, bots, and massaging integration. You can learn here
Designing for Portal Collaboration
Of you want to create a portal based solution, you can use SharePoint to develop platform based application. You can learn here
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If this new year you want to upgrade your PC and recycle the old one. This post will guide you to prepare and to migrate your old PC into a new one. This is five tips that you need to do before upgrading your PC.
Tips 1. Sync Your Important FIle to the Cloud and Local
You should choose your cloud storage provider. For example, i choose to use OneDrive to store my personal photos and files, and i choose OneDrive for Business to store my work document and office stuff. You should sync up. Go to the public internet service or buy daily internet package to sync the document. it will take an hour depends on your internet file.
Tips 2. Backup your license key
Uninstall your Office 2016. and other licensed product to mark them you don't have active installation. Write down your license key into a safe place. You will need some of your software license. Some of software such as OEM software cannot be transferred. Some of the software need an offline actiivation by calling the support (i,e, Office 2016/2019, PDF App). Some of software like Office 365 pro plus can be deactivated by visiting the portal.offiice.com
Tips 3. Refresh your PC
If you want to start from fresh installation or want to donate you notebook into your college. you should select refresh your PC option on Windows 8 / Windows 10. If you are using the old Windows you can format the disk by reinstalling the Windows. This will take several hours if you want secure erase your content. You can use third party application such as Acronic, Easus, or Windows 10 built in feature (Secure Wipe)
Tips 4. Creating a list of Software that You Need to Install
While you wait for your old PC to be refreshed, you can create a list of your favorite software that you want to install on the new PC. For example, here are my software list
- Updated Driver for the Notebook Support site (if any)
- Visio 2019
- Project 2019
- Office 365 Pro Plus
- Visual Studio 2017
- 7 zip
- Foxit PDF Phantom
- Spotify
- Power Apps
- Power BI
- Grammarly
- Paint.NET
- Camtasia Studio
- Snagit
- SQL Server 2016
- Microsoft Teams
- Whatsapp
- Internet Download Accelerator
- Microsoft Money / Accounting
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Tips 5 Activate your Software and Update your data with Cloud Software
You can install and activate the software and activate the data sync to make sure you have a daily backup for your software. Do an update for your Windows by installing the latest version of Windows build by visiting https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO