What is the most underrated feature of Microsoft Copilot?

We asked Microsoft MVPs at ESPC 2024 in Stockholm what they thought was the most underrated feature of Microsoft Copilot. We assembled their answers into a short video, but you can also read their extended answers below.

You don’t have to start with the master prompt – Emily Mancini

I think one of the most underrated features of Microsoft Copilot is that you really don’t have to start with the master prompt. You can have a really long conversation to refine and get to what you actually need, and then when you’re done, and you get that result, you can actually ask Copilot, “Write that as a prompt so I can do this again next time” and you can shorten your steps. Copilot can actually help you get to your end goals after having those conversations in the future too.

Everybody is talking about is meeting recaps – Marc D Anderson

You know, it’s interesting, the thing that I hear almost everybody talking about is meeting recaps. It seems like such a sort of mundane and pedestrian thing, but it’s incredibly valuable. And I know we’ve started recording a lot more meetings just so we get that transcript and get the meeting recap out of it.

The other thing that I hear a lot of people talking about is, and I got this phrase from Todd Klindt, I’m not sure if he invented it, but “The tyranny of the blank page.” If you need to write something and you don’t know where to get started, you can ask Copilot for some beginning information. You could say, “Write me two paragraphs about list formatting”, and it’ll give you something to start with. I don’t think you should ever use anything that Copilot gives you without reviewing it, editing it, making it your own, turning it into your voice, and all that stuff. But it’s a great starting point.

Microsoft Copilot in OneDrive – Martin Rovekamp

From my perspective, you should try Copilot in OneDrive because you can really compare documents. You can get summaries of long documents and get something out of it. You don’t need to read 800 pages, but just give a prompt and get your insights from it.

Copilot can improve your text from a language perspective – Knut Relbe-Moe

I think there’s a lot in Copilot that people need to start to look into. But of course, one of the most underrated, I will say, I think a lot of people haven’t understood the idea of “improve my text” yet. You know, like I’m not an English speaker. So for me, Copilot always helps me to kind of go in, write a text, and then ask Copilot to improve it. Not only from the content perspective, but the language perspective as well.

Summary for Teams meetings – Toni Redmond

Everybody’s got to find their own piece of magic in AI. For me, what I use most is the summary for Teams meetings, and I use Microsoft 365 chat to find documents. That’s pretty much the value I get out of it.

Microsoft Copilot is integrated with all the Office tools – Thomas Vochten

Copilot is everywhere these days, so there is no escape. When it comes to Copilot, I think what people tend to not appreciate enough is the way that Copilot is integrated with all the Office tools they use every day. People always talk about that other LLM that is out there, that everyone knows. It does many of the same things. It’s based on the same technology, but it’s not as neatly integrated into the Office applications. And I think that, in general, is what people should love more about Copilot.

The prompt gallery will make a big impact for organizations – Richard Harbridge

I think, in Copilot, one of the things that we often underestimate is how you get started. So the prompt gallery, which is a place where you can now soon like and share and add your own prompts to and discover prompts. I think that’s my most undervalued feature, and also the one that I think has a big, big impact for organizations. And the fact that now we can use it with Copilot agents, and it can be more than just Microsoft first-party prompts, but your own prompts, I think, is very, very exciting.

My favorite Copilot feature is transforming content – Vlad Catrinescu

I think my favorite Microsoft Copilot feature is transforming content. So, for example, let’s say I create a training, it’s all in a PowerPoint, and I write my speaker notes. And then I’m like, you know what? I think it would be awesome to have a blog post out of it. So, I just ask Copilot to create a blog post based on a specific PowerPoint presentation. This way, I know that it’s grounded in data that I created, so it’s my style of writing, and it’s only that PowerPoint document I created. So the end result will be awesome quality and also more in my voice.

I also think Microsoft Copilot is amazing at summarizing content, and it’s one of the features that you can save the most time with easily. Whether it’s summarizing a team’s meeting, recording, summarizing a big document, or summarizing that long email thread you got when you came back from lunch. For example, if there are 20 emails in your inbox, just ask Copilot to summarize everything to know if there is any important stuff in there. Do I actually need to go read it, or does it have nothing to do with me? It’s one of those super quick wins that it takes one click and you get value out of Copilot.

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It was great hearing what Microsoft MVPs had to say about the most underrated features of Microsoft Copilot. You can also check out other MVP videos about the most transformative Microsoft 365 feature in 2025 and whether Copilot agents will help increase the adoption of Microsoft Copilot. Thank you to all the Microsoft MVPs for their insights!