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Copilot Chat in Outlook: the features that actually change your inbox day

Summarize long threads, draft replies in your own tone, catch up on what you missed and pull commitments out of email — what works today in the free Copilot Chat pane and where the licensed version pulls ahead.

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Gilles Essiambre27 July 2026 · 8 min read
MS 365 Tips

Build a Teams meeting agenda with a Loop component that plans, captures notes and tracks follow-ups

One live Loop component attached to the invite replaces the agenda email, the notes doc and the follow-up chase. Here is the exact setup, the section structure that keeps meetings on time, and how to turn decisions into assigned tasks before anyone leaves the call.

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Gilles Essiambre24 July 2026 · 9 min read
MS 365 Tips

Outlook productivity: 10 email hacks that save me 30 minutes every day

Quick Steps, rules that triage before you read, Search folders, @mention filters, scheduled send, snooze, categories and keyboard shortcuts — the ten habits I teach in every Outlook session, ranked by time reclaimed.

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Gilles Essiambre21 July 2026 · 7 min read
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5 ways Microsoft Copilot can eliminate repetitive work

Recurring status reports, meeting recaps, data clean-up in Excel, first-draft documents and inbox triage — five repeatable patterns with the prompts that make Copilot deliver a usable result on the first pass.

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Gilles Essiambre18 July 2026 · 8 min read
MS 365 Tips

How to find anything in Microsoft 365 in under 60 seconds

Search operators, the Microsoft 365 search bar, Teams message filters, SharePoint metadata, OneDrive activity views and Copilot retrieval prompts — a search sequence that ends the file hunt.

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Gilles Essiambre16 July 2026 · 6 min read

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