Everyday Word, Excel & Outlook users
Use the AI assistant your employer allows, built into Outlook, Word and Excel or in a separate window, for the inbox, the long document, the formula and the update, and check what it gives you before it goes anywhere. You decide and press send; money, contracts, personal information and access go to whoever decides them.
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9 short lessons · 54 min of audio · a final exam and a course certificate
Use whichever AI assistant your employer allows — built into Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint or open in a separate window — to draft, summarize and sort everyday work, and check what it gives you before it goes anywhere.
which assistant you have and what it can see, the Monday inbox and the thread you joined late, and replies around your own decision: Which assistant you have, and what it can see; The Monday inbox and the thread you joined late; Decide first, then let it write
your notes into a page someone can follow, the long document you are supposed to have read, a formula in plain words, and the rules only you know about a sheet: From your notes to a page someone can follow; The long document you are supposed to have read; Asking for a formula in plain words; What the sheet says, and the rules only you know
the sentences before the slides, and the page of asks and checks you keep by your keyboard: The story first, then the slides; Your week, and the page by your keyboard
One side of one page, kept by your keyboard: which assistant is approved, what it can see and who your IT contact is, the asks that worked in your own words, your checks, the never list, and what a person decides, with a real name beside each line.
The certificate names that artefact and the tools you used — not a title. It carries a code anyone can check: verify a certificate.
The opening of lesson one, exactly as it plays inside — and the exercise that comes with it, which you can do right now without an account.
It usually arrives without explanation. One morning there is a new panel in Outlook, or an email from head office saying everyone should "start using AI". Nobody shows you anything, and the quiet assumption is that you will figure it out — or that if you cannot, the problem is you.
It is not you. This course is for people who learned Word, Excel and Outlook by doing the work, not by taking a class, and who know their own files better than any software does. We will take the ordinary jobs of a working week — the inbox, the replies, the long document, the spreadsheet, the slides — and do each one with an assistant beside you.
You will meet Linda along the way. She is a purchasing coordinator at a family-owned building-supply company. She has worked there longer than most of its software, and she inherited the order tracker from the person before her, so she knows why some rows are yellow. When the new assistant appeared, she did not paste anything into it. Her first move was to find out what she was allowed to use, and what it could see.
Know what it can see. Built into your programs, it may reach anything you can open; in a separate window, it usually sees only what you give it.
That sentence sorts every workplace into one of three situations, and we will come back to them in every lesson.
Try it now · Find out which assistant you may use
Where:One question to your IT contact or manager
(No prompt. One question, asked of a person.) Ask your IT contact or your manager: "Which AI assistant are we allowed to use with work documents, and is it built into my programs or separate?" Write the answer and the person's name at the top of a new document.
The rest of the catalogue is there when you need it — but you do not have to choose anything today. One course, one short lesson at a time, one page at the end.
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