Introduction

Join me exploring Microsoft Copilot through each letter of the alphabet.

This week, J is for Joy. Yep, I said it. (Don’t gag just yet…)

I think articles about AI in general tend to come with a foreboding sense of doom. From the headlines I’m seeing and the books I’m reading, AI is going to steal all our jobs, bake subconscious (or even very conscious) biases into the fabric of society and make minorities suffer even more, AND THEN probably become sentient and overrule us all.

Even in these blogs I’ve spent several posts warning you about hallucinations, data leaks, transcription mishaps, and the time it invented 45 colleagues I’d never met. All of that is real, and all of it matters.

BUT, sometimes, using AI at work like Copilot is just delightful. And I think that deserves a post.

Think of the amount of time in your life that you spend working. For me, there’s GOT to be joy in there somewhere, and Copilot is giving me that right now.

The Cup of Tea Moment

A few weeks ago, I set Researcher loose on the kind that takes hours of trawling through old documents, copying, pasting, and tweaking. I gave it some reference material, told it what I needed, and then went to make a cup of tea.

I came back to a completed first draft. With my nice cup of tea. It’s pretty audacious isn’t it, getting Copilot to do work for you while you literally have a teabreak. If this is the future, me and Twinings (and biscuits) are in.

The Comedy Roast

One of my favourite Copilot prompts is asking it to summarise my week in the style of a comedy roast.

It pulls together everything; my emails, my meetings, my Teams chats, and delivers a summary that is so specific, so accurate, and so merciless that I actually laugh out loud.

“You’re not a Community Manager—you’re a one-woman ops center with a caffeine drip and a dream”

“You had more meetings than a UN summit.”

“Inbox Olympics: Gold Medal in Email Avalanche You received 83 emails this week. That’s not a mailbox—it’s a digital avalanche.”

I think this one is my favourite ever:

Lyndsay365 

If you want a weekly review that actually makes you look forward to reflecting on your week, this is it. Try it. You’re welcome.

The Lightbulb Moments

This one is less about me and more about the people around me — and honestly it might be my favourite kind of Copilot (or AI) joy.

I’ve been using Copilot long enough now that I’m a little further along the journey than some of my peers. And there is nothing quite like the moment you say “have you thought about asking Copilot to help you with that?”

Sometimes the lightbulb goes on and they scamper off, eager to try. Sometimes they’re sceptical and take a bit of persuading. But every time I still get a kick out of the “omg look what it did and it only took me 10 minutes to get this result” feedback when they try out what you’ve suggested. It’s gold.

The End of the Frantic Scroll

“I had an email, I don’t know when, about a thing, can you help?”

If you’ve ever lost twenty minutes hunting for something you know exists but absolutely cannot locate (never happens to me with my amazing filing system, obvs ) then this one’s for you.

Copilot has become my personal PI. I can describe something in the vaguest possible terms “I mentioned an event in a meeting a few weeks ago, what was it?” and Copilot will usually find it.  No more trawling. No more “I’m sure I saved it somewhere.” No more giving up and asking a colleague who definitely remembers even less than I do. Joy.

The Dignity of Plain English

I am not a lawyer. I am not a contracts person. And yet, contracts cross my desk.

Before Copilot, I’d read dense legal language and feel like I was reading a foreign language. All those subclauses and whereofs and notwithstandings. Now I paste it in and ask for a plain English summary, and suddenly I can have an actual informed opinion about what I’m reading.

It’s a small thing. But not feeling like a moron in a meeting? That’s joy.

The Unexpected Compliment

I’ll admit this one is a little bit indulgent. A while back, I asked Copilot to summarise what it thought my key skills were, based on everything it could see in my work data. (It helps with building my evidence wall, like I mentioned in my I for Imposter syndrome post).

The results were… nice. Really nice, actually.

Look, I know it’s an AI. I know it’s not sitting there thinking “wow, Lyndsay is brilliant.” But there was something quietly lovely about seeing your own work reflected back at you in a positive light. A little unprompted affirmation from the robots. I’ll take it.

There are plenty of things about AI that are worth being cautious about — and I’ll keep writing about those too. But I think it’s important to also notice when something improves your day. When it makes you laugh, or saves you an hour, or helps a colleague see something differently.

That’s not nothing. That’s quite a lot, actually.

TLDR: Copilot isn’t just useful — sometimes it’s joyful. The cup of tea moment, the comedy roast, the colleague lightbulbs, the end of the frantic scroll, the plain English contracts, the unexpected compliment. Joy comes in many forms. Some of them are just surprisingly enterprise-AI-shaped.

What’s your most joyful Copilot moment? I’d love to hear it in the comments — we could all do with more of this. 

About the author

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L, Ansell (06/05/2026) Lyndsay’s A-Z of Microsoft Copilot – J is for Joy. Lyndsay’s A-Z of Microsoft Copilot – J is for Joy – Lyndsay Ansell’s Blog