# Asking a site a question

Copilot in SharePoint: point at a site, ask, get an answer with a link back.

7 screens, about three minutes. Pictures, almost no words.

## A site is a cupboard of files.

*Picture: A dashed frame labelled a site holding six documents.*

Somebody put them there over several years.

## You can ask the cupboard.

*Picture: A box labelled your question with an arrow into the site frame.*

Not the whole building. This one.

## It shows its working.

*Picture: A green box labelled the answer with an amber box beneath labelled the file it came from.*

Every answer names the file underneath it.

## It replaces opening nine files.

*Picture: Two panels. On the left a person opening many documents. On the right a person and one green answer.*

That is the whole benefit. It is a real one.

## It is only as good as the cupboard.

*Picture: A box labelled a tidy site with an arrow to a green box labelled a good answer, and a box labelled a messy site with an arrow to a slate box labelled a poor one.*

Nothing here tidies the files for you.

## Do today

Open a SharePoint site you use and ask it one question you would normally ask a colleague.

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