What?<\/strong> Tell Copilot a task you need to do and it will break it down into a series of subtasks, and create a table that you can download as a spreadsheet so you can monitor your progress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Why?<\/strong> Breaking down tasks into subtasks can make them less daunting and help us more effectively estimate how long things will take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Step 1:<\/strong> Think of a task that you need to complete in the near future, or one that you recently completed (so you can compare what you actually did to Copilot’s suggestions).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Step 2:<\/strong> Go to Copilot (office.com\/chat)<\/a> and sign in with your Coventry account. If you\u2019re already using Copilot, just select the \u2018New chat\u2019 button at the top right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Step 3:<\/strong> Start the conversation by copying and pasting the following prompt into Copilot, then select the \u2018Submit\u2019 button (the arrow at the bottom-right):<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your goal is to help me breakdown a complicated task. First ask me what the task is. Wait for my response. Then break the task down into a series of subtasks. Create a table with two columns – task and status. Ask me if I’d like any changes to the subtasks, or if I would like any more columns to be added to the table.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Step 4: <\/strong>Copilot should ask you to describe the task. Type your response into the text box and select \u2018Submit\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Step 5:<\/strong>\u00a0Tell Copilot if you\u2019d like it to make any changes to the subtasks or the table. If you want to download the table, tell Copilot ‘Create a spreadsheet with the table’. It should produce a link to a .xlsx Excel file. Sometimes this can be a bit buggy \u2013 see ‘Can Copilot create spreadsheets?’ in the FAQ<\/a> for further guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Important:<\/strong> Always check Copilot\u2019s output. Generative AI tools can hallucinate (create plausible but incorrect information).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Description What? Tell Copilot a task you need to do and it will break it down into a series of subtasks, and create a table that you can download as a spreadsheet so you can monitor your progress. Why? Breaking down tasks into subtasks can make them less daunting and help us more effectively estimate how long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3323,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_coblocks_attr":"Inconsolata","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-245","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copilotcookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copilotcookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copilotcookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copilotcookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copilotcookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copilotcookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copilotcookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copilotcookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Instructions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\ud83e\udd16 Prompt (click to expand, then copy and paste into Copilot)<\/summary>