Generate or modify content in Loop Workspaces

- [Instructor] Microsoft Loop is a web application for managing projects or organizing notes in a shared workspace. At the time of this recording, Loop is a new addition to Microsoft 365, so if you're not familiar with it, you can find my training course on Microsoft Loop on LinkedIn Learning. You can go to loop.microsoft.com and sign in with your Microsoft 365 account. Here I have three workspaces. Each is full of information that I can work on with different teammates. I can select one, and in this workspace, you see I have several pages, each containing different types of information. Now, a page in Microsoft Loop is built using blocks. Each piece of content is in a separate block, so this header line is a block. This paragraph is a block. This checklist, this table, all different types of blocks. And this lets you store and organize very different types of content mixed together on a page. Each block can easily be moved and even shared independently of the page, and, Copilot can be used inside of Microsoft Loop to either generate blocks that have drafts of new content or rewrite existing blocks. So in Loop, when you start an empty line, you can type the slash key, then choose the type of block you want to create. You might want to insert a table, a list, a date, or one of these other options. But if you have the Copilot add-on, you can choose one of these Copilot blocks. You can choose a block that summarizes all of the content on the page, or you can make a block to draft new content. I'll choose that, and for now, my Copilot field is right here on the page. If you need some inspiration or you don't know what to ask for, you can use one of these pre-made prompt suggestions, but I do know what I want to ask for, so I'll type that in, (keyboard clacking) then hit the return key or click the send button and give it a moment to generate. And it gave me the table I asked for. Remember, this should be treated as a draft. At the bottom, there's even a line that says, "AI-generated content may be incorrect," but this can be a great starting point. A lot of the upfront work is done, and now I can refine the information in this table. Up at the top there is this floating panel. So if you want to follow up with another request, you can put that in here. (keyboard clacking) Then hit the return key. After a moment, it added the column that I asked for and even filled it with some text based on information it found on this page. When you're finished, you can close that panel. Copilot can also be used to rewrite content on a page. I want to work with this paragraph, which of course is contained in a block. When you click somewhere on a block, a handle appears to the left of it. That's this button with six dots. You can actually drag that handle to move the block, or you can click it for this menu. And here you can choose, Rewrite with Copilot, it shows a floating panel where I can describe how I want this to be rewritten. You might want to describe some content that you want copilot to add. You might want it to find and replace specific words, or you might ask it to change the tone. For now, I'm just going to ask it to make this shorter, then hit the return key. After a moment, it gives me a shorter version of that text that basically says the same thing. And of course, you can still make manual changes to this content, so I could click here and type in a little text, (keyboard clacking) and make my changes. Now finally, any content block that has been generated or modified by the Copilot AI will have this Copilot button to the right of it. You can click that button to open the Copilot panel. And in this panel you can see the history of changes that were made. So I can see the change that the AI made and the manual change that I just made. And next to the most recent change, there is an undo button. And of course, you can use this text prompt to ask for more changes. I'll ask it to make this more formal. (keyboard clacking) And now I have that rewritten version. And when you're finished, you can just close this panel and you can always open it again later and ask the AI for more revisions.