Hands on: Copilot Pro for Outlook review
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This comment first appeared in Issue 355 PC Pro.
There are three key features in Copilot prospect: Summary, drafting and coaching. Summary may be the first feature you encounter, as every email you receive has a prominent “Copilot by Copilot” bar.
Click this and it will create a short, easy to read summary e-mail. This will depend on the email you receive. But if you spend a long time reading complicated emails and trying to find out the point, you’ll love it.
The second main function is drafting, just like drafting function wordbecause you give it a prompt and write an email for you. You can change the tone with the pop-up option (direct, neutral, casual, formal, or, “make it a poem”) and set the length to short, medium, or length. Beware: Outlook uses the last tone of your choice, so if you decide to write a poem, remember to make changes before drafting the email to your accountant.
Like Word, I classify the results as “to start and personalize” rather than finished articles. From the tone, it turns to extremes: formally Very Formal, leisure may only be given to family and close friends. In my tests, Direct produced the best results, although some of the phrases needed to be tuned down to stop them from sounding like the emails you received from the bailiff, thus catching up on you to delay payments.
My favorite feature is coaching. This can check the content of the email you wrote and provide tips on how to improve it, as well as provide clear suggestions that are practically useful. It advised me to make my tone more confident, which was told by a professional writing coach in the past.
