This tutorial will show you how to create a new prompt with Copilot in Microsoft Edge, on the web, and app in Windows 11.
The Microsoft Copilot app is your AI app for work. Copilot connects to the Microsoft 365 apps and content you use every day, creates polished documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, gets things done with Cowork, lets you choose between leading AI models, understands your job and company through Work IQ, and keeps your data protected.
When you sign in to Copilot, your experience adapts to your account: a licensed work-or-school experience with enterprise data protection, or a personal experience for individuals, with or without a Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, or Premium subscription.
Copilot prompts are instructions or questions you use to tell Copilot what you want. Prompts can include four parts:
- Goal: What do you want Copilot to do?
- Context: Why do you need it, and who is involved?
- Source: What information or samples should Copilot use? Depending on your account, this could be a file you attach, a web page, or your work emails, chats, and files.
- Expectations: How should Copilot respond?
When you create a prompt in Copilot, you can save the prompt to the Copilot Prompt Gallery. You can view and share saved prompts from the Copilot Prompt Gallery.
References:
Get started writing prompts in Microsoft Copilot | Microsoft Support
Understand Copilot prompts as instructions directing AI behavior, comprising elements like goals, context, expectations, and sources.
support.microsoft.com
Understand Prompt Gallery in Copilot
Learn about the Copilot Prompt Gallery and how your users can use Copilot prompts in your organization.
learn.microsoft.com
Microsoft Copilot Prompts
Discover powerful prompts for Microsoft Copilot to boost your productivity. Copilot uses context from your files, meetings, emails, and chats in the apps you work in every day - so you can access the right context and take action wherever work happens.
Contents
- Option One: Create Prompt in Copilot in Windows 11 and Web
- Option Two: Create Prompt in Copilot in Microsoft Edge
1 Open the copilot.com site or Copilot app on Windows 11.
2 Sign in to Copilot with your Microsoft account if not already.
3 Start a new chat in Copilot.
4 Type a prompt (ex: "Explain how to create Copilot prompts.") you want in the Copilot chat prompt, and click/tap on the Send button. (see screenshot below)
5 At the top of the chat, you can hover on the original prompt text (ex: "Explain how to create Copilot prompts.") to open a toolbar. You can Edit, Copy, or Save this prompt from the toolbar. (see screenshot below)
1 Open Microsoft Edge.
2 Sign in to Microsoft Edge with your Microsoft account if not already.
3 Start a new chat in Copilot.
4 Type a prompt (ex: "Explain how to create Copilot prompts.") you want in the Copilot chat prompt, and click/tap on the Send button. (see screenshot below)
5 At the top of the chat, you can hover on the original prompt text (ex: "Explain how to create Copilot prompts.") to open a toolbar. You can Edit, Copy, or Save this prompt from the toolbar. (see screenshot below)
That's it,
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