From the course: Learning Microsoft 365 Copilot for Work

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Conduct deep analysis with the Copilot Researcher agent

Conduct deep analysis with the Copilot Researcher agent

From the course: Learning Microsoft 365 Copilot for Work

Conduct deep analysis with the Copilot Researcher agent

It's important to have an understanding of what Copilot agents are and how they work. While a prompt is something that you can enter right here, and it's a single request for a response, an agent is a goal-based system that can reason, plan, and take actions over multiple steps to achieve a task. After this video, I'm going to show you how to create your own agents. But for now, I want to show you one of the built-in agents that comes with your Copilot license. It's called Researcher, and it's one of the most versatile agents in Copilot right now. I got here by going back to the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat portal and clicking on Agents here on the left-hand side of the screen. Here you can see a list of all the pre-built agents you can start using, including any that you've made along the way. Now you'll even notice agents here for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. These agents enable you to create presentations, documents, and spreadsheets just by describing what you need without even…

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