How to use AI tools safely and productively in a normal office job: Excel formulas, emails, meeting notes, data cleaning, reports and presentations, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and keeping company data safe. Each lesson has a worksheet of prompts to try.

1. 1AI for Office Work Lesson 1: What AI Can and Can’t Do at WorkA realistic map of AI at work: tasks it does well (drafting, summarising, formulas, cleaning), tasks to avoid, which tools to use,…
2. 2AI for Office Work Lesson 2: Excel Formulas With AIGet correct Excel formulas from AI: describe your columns and sample rows, state your Excel version, ask for an explanation, test on…
3. 3AI for Office Work Lesson 3: Emails and RepliesDraft and improve emails with AI: replies to long threads, tone adjustments, difficult messages, follow-ups and translations, while keeping your voice and…
4. 4AI for Office Work Lesson 4: Meeting Notes and SummariesTurn meetings into useful notes: Teams/Zoom transcripts, prompts for decisions and action items, follow-up emails, and consent and confidentiality basics.
5. 5AI for Office Work Lesson 5: Cleaning and Classifying DataUse AI to tidy data: categorise transactions, standardise names and addresses, extract fields from text, and when to ask for a formula…
6. 6AI for Office Work Lesson 6: Reports and PresentationsUse AI to structure reports, turn numbers into commentary, draft slide outlines, create speaker notes and design with Copilot in PowerPoint —…
7. 7AI for Office Work Lesson 7: Copilot in Microsoft 365What Microsoft 365 Copilot does in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams, practical prompts for each app, how it uses your work…
8. 8AI for Office Work Lesson 8: Safety, Privacy and Company DataUse AI without leaking data: what not to paste, approved vs consumer tools, anonymising, Indian data protection basics (DPDP Act), copyright, bias…

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