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Pick one small piece of real work to use:
  1. Find something: An email thread you need to reply to, meeting notes, a messy paragraph, or a short project update.
  2. Paste it into Copilot Work and use this prompt:
    You're my assistant.
    1) Summarise this in 5 bullets.
    2) List the top 3 next actions (with suggested owners).
    3) Draft a short reply I can send.

    Keep it under 120 words. Use plain business English.
If you don’t have anything handy, paste a short paragraph from a doc. Copilot works best when you give it something real to chew on.
Notice how specific instructions get you a usable result on the first try.
Take the response you just got and refine it with a single instruction:
  1. Make it punchier: Try “Make it more direct.”
  2. Trim the content: Try “Shorten by 30%.”
  3. Change the format: Try “Put it into a table.”
Pick one, send it, and see how Copilot adapts. This is the refine step professionals use constantly: small prompt → quick refine → done.
Try the same prompt with different reasoning modes:
  1. Open a new chat in Copilot.
  2. Find the GPT-5.2 toggle in the top-right corner.
  3. Run your prompt in Quick Response mode, then try it again in Think Deeper mode.
Compare the two results. Think Deeper takes longer but handles complex analysis better. Quick Response is ideal for straightforward tasks.