Catalogue · PA for EXEC — a typical week for the executive assistant

Translate and answer an email in English

You understand the email that came in English and reply in the partner’s language, without translating from memory.

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The steps

The exact sequence, in order.

01
Select the English message and click “Summarize by Copilot”.
02
Open the Copilot pane and ask for a faithful translation of the message.
03
Then ask for an English reply draft, and name the subject line.
04
Read the reply in Outlook: is the recipient shown at the top of the message the right one?

The prompt to copy

Word for word, exactly as shown in the video.

Translate this message into French, then draft a reply in English that offers a meeting next week and asks for the Atlas file.

The habit to keep

You read the translation before the reply, and the recipient before sending.

Worth knowing

What the video does not hide from you.

In this capsule, Copilot gets the recipient wrong: it addresses the reply to the colleague who forwarded the message (Sophie) instead of the partner who wrote it (James Carter). The draft is fine, the send is not. Check the “To” line every time.

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