Microsoft Introduces 'Vibe Working' with AI Agents in Office Apps

Microsoft just added AI agents to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - how to use them

Now accessible on the web, the agents will expand to the desktop. Microsoft 365 users looking for assistance in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint can now call on AI agents to help them with their work. On Monday, Microsoft announced that the new agentic AI skills are now available for both business and personal subscribers of Microsoft 365. Also: Copilot Chat arrives free for Microsoft 365 users - check if you have it The new capabilities offer a work-related twist on the concept of AI vibe coding. With this type of vibe, people with little or no programming skills can use AI to build and develop apps. In Microsoft's scenario, you can do the same with Microsoft 365. As one example, someone without any expertise in data analysis could ask AI for help creating advanced formulas or charts in their Excel spreadsheets. For the business crowd, you would need a Microsoft 365 Copilot business subscription, which typically costs $30 per user per month. But for individual use, a Microsoft 365 Family or Personal plan will do the trick. Here's how the different agents go about their work. Microsoft Excel can be a powerful tool. But unless you're skilled in data analysis, many of its features and tools can be confusing or intimidating. Trained in Excel and OpenAI's latest models, the Excel agent offers advanced analytical and modeling techniques. You can use this agent mode to not only generate content but to examine data, fix problems, and verify the results. As one example cited by Microsoft, you could submit the following prompt to Copilot in Excel: "Run a full analysis on this sales data set. I want to understand some important insights to help me make decisions about my business. Make it visual." Also: Microsoft's new Windows AI Labs lets you try experimental features first - how to opt-in In response, the agent decides which formulas to incorporate, creates the necessary sheets, and generates the data visualizations. The AI also summarizes the key insights and displays the validation steps to further help you refine the data. Agent Mode in Copilot for Excel is now available via the Frontier program for Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users and Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscribers. Agent Mode works in Excel on the web but is headed to the desktop soon. To take it for a spin, install the Excel Labs add-in and choose Agent Mode. In general, Word is a more welcoming application than Excel. Most people can certainly devise a basic document. But even here, many users may be unaware of the advanced formatting features and other tools that can flesh out a document. In this case, you just tell Copilot what you need. The AI will carry out your command by writing the content and suggesting refinements. It can even ask you questions as it ensures that your document contains all the correct and necessary information. The end result can take advantage of Word styles, formatting, and other features to make sure the document not only reads well but looks good. Also: Microsoft Copilot now offers Claude models - how to try them As one example, you might tell Copilot in Word to "help me update this monthly report for September. Update the data table with the latest numbers from the /'Sept Data Pull' email. Summarize the key highlights, including insights compared to last month's /'August monthly report.doc.'" Here, the slash marks refer to an email and another document, as Copilot can work with files beyond your current one. As another example, you could ask Copilot to format your document a certain way. At the prompt, you would ask: "Can you clean up this document? Title case for section headers, branding updates per the '/Latest brand guidelines' email, and italicize all external partner mentions. Feel free to ask if you need help identifying partners or guidelines." Agent Mode in Copilot for Word is now rolling out through the Frontier program for Microsoft 365 Copilot-licensed customers and for Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscribers. Currently accessible only on the web, the agent will soon make its way to the desktop. To get started with this one, check out Microsoft's Agent mode in Word web page. The Office Agent in Copilot Chat serves as a chat partner to assist you with Word documents and PowerPoint presentations. PowerPoint is a popular tool for creating presentations. But as Microsoft admits, it hasn't taken advantage of AI as much as the other apps in the suite. Using the chat agent, you can create professional and organized PowerPoint slides and well-researched Word documents. As one example focusing on PowerPoint, you could give Copilot the following prompt: "I need to create a set of slides to share with my employees to encourage them to actively fund their retirement accounts. We've agreed to match a percentage of their contributions, but I'd like to increase the uptake of people participating in this program. Use a combination of numbers, visuals, and narrative/analogies to help." Also: The 10 apps I can't live or work without - on Windows, Mac, and mobile In another example, you might ask the AI to create a deck summarizing the top five trends in the athleisure clothing market." In this case, Copilot would analyze your prompt, conduct deep research to find the data, and then generate a fully formatted presentation with a live preview of the slides. Office Agent is now available through the Frontier program for Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscribers in the US. Accessible in Microsoft 365 Copilot on the web, the agent currently supports English. To learn more, browse to the page on Getting started with Office Agent.

Microsoft launches 'vibe working' in Excel and Word

You've probably heard of vibe coding -- novices writing apps by creating a simple AI prompt -- but now Microsoft wants to introduce a similar thing for its Office apps. The software maker is launching a new Agent Mode in Excel and Word that can generate complex spreadsheets and documents with just a prompt. A new Office Agent in Copilot chat, powered by Anthropic models, is also launching today that can create PowerPoint presentations and Word documents from a "vibe working" chatbot. "Today we're bringing vibe working to Microsoft 365 Copilot with Agent Mode in Office apps and Office Agent in Copilot chat," says Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Office Product Group. "In the same way vibe coding has transformed software development, the latest reasoning models in Copilot unlock agentic productivity for Office artifacts." Agent Model in Excel and Word is a more powerful version of the Copilot experience that Microsoft has added to its Office apps. It's designed to make the complex parts of Excel more accessible to users that aren't experts. "It's not just simple assistive short answers, but board-ready presentations or documents," Chauhan says. "It's work, quite frankly, that a first-year consultant would do, delivered in minutes." Agent Mode essentially takes a complex task and breaks it down with planning and reasoning that you can follow. It then uses OpenAI's GPT-5 model to break down each step of document creation into an agentic task and execute it. It's like watching an automated macro in real time, showing everything it's doing in the sidebar. Microsoft has taken a gradual approach to adding AI elements to Excel, particularly because the data it handles powers some of the most important parts of businesses worldwide. "[Agent Mode] lets you build sheets that are auditable, refreshable, and verifiable," Chauhan says. "We have spent a ton of time making sure that the validation loop on all of these sub-agents is pretty tight." Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model's ability to edit real world spreadsheets. This result places Agent Mode above Shortcut.ai, ChatGPT agent with .xlsx support, and Claude Files Opus 4.1. It's still behind the human accuracy of 71.3 percent, though. Agent Mode in Word goes beyond the existing writing, rewrite, and summarization AI features in Word. "Agent Mode in Word turns document creation into vibe writing, an interactive, conversational experience," Chauhan says. It lets Copilot draft content, suggest refinements, and clarify what elements are needed during the process of document creation. You can do things like create a monthly report with data from previous months and have Copilot summarize the highlights for the month and the differences from a previous report. "Copilot makes suggestions to keep the process flowing, so writing feels more like a dialogue than a task," Chauhan says. Microsoft's new Office Agent will also be available outside of its Office apps via Copilot chat. Powered by Anthropic models, it can create full PowerPoint presentations or Word documents from a chat prompt. "PowerPoint is one of the most used tools for creating presentations, but over the last two years AI has often fallen short when creating slides," Chauhan says. "Office Agent changes that." Office Agent can create fully structured PowerPoint decks, all while doing web-based research and providing a live preview of slides. Microsoft is hoping that it will help Office continue to differentiate itself from the magnitude of AI tools that are also trying to create documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks. "Productivity is our DNA, we're Office," Chauhan says. "While others will try to replicate us, there is no substitute for the real thing." Office Agent also marks another entry point for Anthropic AI models in Microsoft 365 apps and services. Microsoft already embraced the OpenAI rival to improve researcher, GitHub Copilot, and Copilot Studio recently, and now Anthropic's AI models are able to produce Word and PowerPoint documents from Microsoft's own Copilot chat interface. "We are committed to OpenAI, but we are starting to explore with the model family to understand the strength that different models bring and understand how we build the best composition for our products," Chauhan says. "We are looking at the entire family of models, wherever cutting edge work happens." While OpenAI models continue to power Microsoft's AI work inside Office apps, it certainly feels like Anthropic's models are inching closer to being a key part of Office apps like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Microsoft is using Anthropic's API to bring these features to Copilot chat, which runs on cloud rival Amazon Web Services. That could be why we haven't seen Anthropic's AI models deeply woven into desktop Office apps yet. Agent Mode in Copilot for Excel and Word will both be available today in the Frontier program for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers or Microsoft 365 Personal / Family subscribers. Agent Model in Excel and Word is only available in the web versions at launch, with desktop support coming soon. Office Agent is also available today in the Frontier program for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers or Microsoft 365 Personal / Family subscribers in the US.

Microsoft Sets the Tone for 'Vibe Working' With New Agent Mode in Word, Excel

Jibin is a tech news writer based in Ahmedabad, India, who loves breaking down complex information for a broader audience. Don't miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google. Microsoft is making complex Word and Excel tasks easier to handle with a new Agent Mode in Microsoft 365 Copilot. With this addition, you don't necessarily need to be a Word or Excel wizard to generate high-quality documents or spreadsheets. You can start with a simple prompt in the sidebar, let Copilot respond, and then provide further prompts to make it deliver the results you desire. Microsoft's calling it "vibe working." "In the same way vibe coding has transformed software development, the latest reasoning models in Copilot unlock agentic productivity for Office artifacts," said Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Office Product Group. "It's the new pattern of work for human-agent collaboration." Copilot's Agent Mode relies on the latest AI models from OpenAI. In Excel, you can use it to not just generate outputs but also to evaluate results and fix issues. After receiving a prompt, it walks you through each step of its response. Once done, it delivers the results on the main sheet and provides a summary of the work it's accomplished and key discoveries in the sidebar. "It's like you're handing off work to an Excel expert -- while you steer and guide," Chauhan said. Some of the sample prompts shared by Microsoft suggest Agent Mode can analyze sheets and create graphs and charts for very particular datapoints. "Run a full analysis on this sales data set. I want to understand some important insights to help me make decisions about my business. Make it visual," read one of the sample prompts, while two others focused on loan calculations and personal budgeting. You can check them out here. At first glance, Agent Mode's work in Word appeared more or less similar to what AI chatbots can already handle. You can attach a document with your prompt and ask Copilot to make the desired changes. It could be an analysis, feedback-based correction, or just editing the document for grammar and syntax. Microsoft is bringing a similar feature, called Office Agent, to regular Microsoft 365 Copilot chats as well. It's powered by Anthropic's models and available for PowerPoint presentations and Word documents at launch. Select the format below the text box, provide your prompt, and let Office Agent get to work. It will begin with clarifying questions about your prompt, such as focus areas, language tonality, and style templates. Then it goes through the web to collect information and images before delivering the final output. Agent Mode in Copilot for Excel and Word is rolling out today on the Frontier program for Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed customers and Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscribers. It is currently available on the web and will be coming to desktop apps soon. To try Agent Mode in Excel, you need to get the Excel Labs add-in and choose Agent Mode. In Word, you can just open Copilot and select Agent Mode from the menu below the prompt box. The feature will soon be extended to PowerPoint as well. Office Agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot, on the other hand, is currently available in the Frontier program for Personal or Family subscribers on the web.

Microsoft touts 'Vibe Working' in Office apps

Microsoft is jumping on the vibe coding bandwagon with "vibe working," its name for adding AI agents to the online Office suite to help you complete your work. On Monday, Redmond said that it's adding an OpenAI-powered Agent Mode for Word and Excel that will create documents based on existing material and extract data from spreadsheets for reports and financial analysis, all with a few sentences of prompts. For Word users, Microsoft is promising "vibe writing," drawing on existing documents to assemble reports and proposals, checking drafts for clarity and style, and suggesting refinements along the way. Youtube Video The Excel agent is designed to take existing spreadsheets and analyze the data, build reports, and visualize data. Redmond says it and OpenAI can "speak Excel" and produce somewhat accurate results. According to Redmond's own blog post, Microsoft's Agent Mode for Excel scored a 57.2 percent accuracy rate using the established SpreadsheetBench benchmark, but that's significantly lower than the 71.3 percent humans manage on average in the same tests. While Microsoft says Agent Mode outperforms other AI engines, that's still a significant shortfall, and one that threatens the possibility of yet more workslop filling our inboxes. "We don't optimize for benchmarks, we optimize for real user jobs in Excel. That means solving messy, ambiguous, and complex tasks that reflect how people actually work," said Trevor O'Brien, VP of product at Microsoft, defending the results. "And while SpreadsheetBench is a strong signal, it doesn't capture everything that makes Excel powerful -- like dynamic arrays, PivotTables, charts, and formatting -- or the customer need for refreshable, auditable, and verifiable solutions." Microsoft also debuted a new Office Agent in Copilot, but it uses Anthropic rather than the OpenAI engine. Employing a chat-based format, users can generate Word documents and PowerPoint presentations based on publicly available information from the web. Qi Zhang, Microsoft's corporate VP of AI in Asia, claimed that the generated slide decks would be "tasteful," thanks to the code's use of a "taste-driven development (TDD) paradigm." He said that, on the General AI Assistants (GAIA) benchmark, the Office agent outpaced competitors Genspark, Manus, and OpenAI's own Deep research tool. This is the second time in a week that Microsoft has shown its fondness for Anthropic. Last Wednesday, Microsoft added Claude Opus 4.1 and Sonnet 4 as model options in Copilot Studio and the Researcher agent, and Redmond teased that more was to come. This increasingly close relationship is another sign that Microsoft is moving away from OpenAI - a company that it has sunk over $10 billion into. And while Microsoft has its own AI development program, it's showing an increasing willingness to try other options, even adding Grok to Azure for coding purposes. Microsoft is making Agent Mode in Excel and Word available on Monday on the web for Frontier program Copilot 365 customers, and plans to add it to desktop apps in the future. Redmond currently offers Office Agent in Copilot only to US customers with Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscriptions, for the time being. ®

Microsoft is trying to make 'vibe working' a thing

Microsoft is taking inspiration from the AI-driven workflows of "vibe coding" and has now set out to make "vibe working" a thing (yes, those are the words the company chose.) Does AI in the workplace ? Does it ? There are many seemingly critical question unanswered. But in the meantime, sure: vibe working it is. Using Office Agent within Office apps or Copilot chat, users can begin a document with a single prompt and then work iteratively alongside Copilot to develop a finished product. Microsoft says this is the "new pattern of work for human-agent collaboration." The Agent Mode tool supports Excel and Word workflows, and Microsoft says PowerPoint support is coming soon; Office Agent works with PowerPoint and Word, with Excel coming soon. The company waxes poetic about the "full power of Excel" being available only to expert users and promises that an Agent Mode that can "speak Excel" will change all that. In data shared as part of the announcement, Microsoft said that Copilot Agent Mode in Excel achieved 57.2 percent accuracy on the benchmark. This is compared to a 71.3 percent human score, though it's not clear if that's for average users, Excel power users or how many human users that score is derived from. Still -- not great numbers! Agent Mode also works in Word to summarize, edit and of course help to create entire drafts (though its unclear what those relative accuracy rates are.) Both the Excel and Word Agent Modes are powered by OpenAI's latest models. Office Agent in Copilot chat is powered by Anthropic models and can create PowerPoint presentations and Word documents in what Microsoft calls a "chat-first experience." Agent Mode for Excel and Word, as well as Office Agent, are available today through the . Agent Mode is currently limited to the web-based versions of Word and Excel and is coming to desktop soon.

What is 'vibe working'? Microsoft brings agent-powered AI to Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

You might have heard of "vibe coding." Microsoft hopes "vibe working" will catch on next. Much as non-developers can describe what types of programs to build, and let AI do the coding, Microsoft is bringing the concept to documents, spreadsheets and presentations with new features for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The company describes "vibe working" as collaboration between people and AI agents inside its productivity apps. Instead of giving a one-time response, the updated Copilot AI tools generate, test, and refine content while users steer the direction, more like a dialogue. Here's what the company announced Monday morning: * Agent Mode in Word and Excel: Adds the ability for Copilot to perform multi-step tasks within the apps, such as updating reports in Word or analyzing data and creating charts in Excel. Microsoft says PowerPoint support is coming in the future. * Office Agent in Copilot chat: A chat-based tool to produce PowerPoint decks or Word documents, starting from a simple prompt and refining the results through follow-ups. Microsoft says Office Agent in Copilot runs on AI models from Anthropic, maker of the Claude AI chatbot. That's part of a broader move by Microsoft to expand beyond models from OpenAI. The company is racing to add AI features against Google, which is steadily adding generative AI to its Workspace apps, along with Apple, OpenAI, Anthropic, Canva, Notion, and many others developing agent-style AI systems for business, productivity, and design applications. Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud services, which include the Office apps and Copilot for businesses, generated $87.8 billion in revenue in the 2025 fiscal year, ending in June, up 14% and second only to the company's server products and cloud services business. The new features are rolling out in preview. Agent Mode is in Word and Excel on the web Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Personal or Family users, through Microsoft's Frontier program. Desktop versions and PowerPoint support will be released later. Office Agent is initially limited to Personal and Family users in the U.S., also through the Frontier program.

Get ready to 'vibe work' in Microsoft Office with new AI agents -- here's how

Microsoft is rolling out a new set of features for Excel, Word and Copilot that enable subscribers to tell an AI-powered assistant to generate documents instead of doing the work themselves. This is significant because it's a big step forward in Microsoft's ongoing mission to inject AI into seemingly every aspect of its business. The company helped kickstart the tech industry's current AI craze by launching Bing with Copilot early in 2023, and later that year, Microsoft put a Copilot AI agent right on your Windows 11 desktop that you can chat with any time to do things like change system settings. This latest update adds a new Office Agent you can chat with inside Copilot to generate PowerPoint decks and Word documents using data pulled from the Internet. There's also a new Agent Mode for the web versions of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word going live this week for subscribers of the Microsoft 365 Frontier Program. If you're not familiar, the Frontier Program is a bit like the Windows Insider Program in that it allows Microsoft 365 subscribers to opt into early access to AI features before they're made widely available. This week, Frontier members are getting a glimpse of what Microsoft pitches as the next step forward in human-AI collaboration after vibe coding: vibe working. "Today, we're bringing vibe working to Microsoft 365 Copilot with Agent Mode in Office apps and Office Agent in Copilot chat," is how Microsoft Office VP Sumit Chauhan opens a Microsoft 365 blog post announcing the new features, which basically give Microsoft 365 subscribers access to a chatbot that can do basic tasks in the web versions of Excel and Word, with a PowerPoint version soon to come. As a writer, this seems more exciting as an Excel upgrade, since I've always had a hard time making heads or tails of the many functions and formulae that make great spreadsheets. Microsoft claims the new Agent Mode in Excel can effectively act on prompts like "create a financial monthly close report for a bike shop business, including a breakdown of product lines across VTB, VTF, sequential, and year-over-year growth", and if it can do so reliably without making mistakes, I may never need to learn how to budget. The new Agent Mode in Word works in a similar fashion, giving you a Copilot chatbot in the web version of Word, you can ask to do things like update tables in a document or fix formatting issues. And while Microsoft has yet to debut the promised PowerPoint Agent Mode, the new Office Agent you can talk to in Copilot chat is capable of generating PowerPoint presentations based on your requests. All of these new features are rolling out now to Microsoft 365 subscribers in the Frontier program, and if you're one of them, you should be able to access them via Copilot and Word. However, in order to access the new Agent Mode in Excel, you need to jump through the additional hoop of downloading the Excel Labs add-on from Microsoft. Is this the next generation of spellcheck, or an existential threat to accountants and writers everywhere? It's hard to know until these AI assistants make their way out of the Frontier program and into the real world, but I have a hunch humans aren't outdated just yet. The promise that anyone can code anything by telling a chatbot to do it (aka "vibe coding") hasn't revolutionized the software market just yet, but we'll have to wait and see how willing businesses and families are to trust Microsoft's AI agents with their data.

Microsoft debuts "vibe working" in Office

Why it matters: Generative AI can now do the heavy lifting of finding data and building documents, which Microsoft is calling "vibe working." State of play: Microsoft is offering two ways into the new capabilities. * "Agent Mode" in Excel and Word, with PowerPoint coming soon, lets people get AI help inside the app. * A separate "Office Agent" in Copilot creates PowerPoint presentations and Word documents, with Excel support coming soon. * The new features are available first on the web-based versions of Office, with plans to add them to desktop apps. The big picture: Microsoft wants to focus its AI features on productivity, its core business. * Other AI chatbots are offering the ability to create or edit various types of documents from within the app. * Earlier this month, Anthropic added the ability to use Claude to create and edit Office files and PDFs. * With the new releases, Microsoft is making the case that a more native understanding of Office apps and their capabilities provides a better experience. * "Productivity is in our DNA," Microsoft corporate VP Sumit Chauhan told Axios. "Others can try and replicate it, but there's no substitute for the real thing." Between the lines: Chatbots can draft a wide range of tasks, from generating an image to creating a chart or table, but they often struggle with editing. * For image generation, chatbots typically re-generate new images from feedback -- often introducing new flaws even as they fix old ones. The intrigue: Microsoft is using Anthropic to create and edit PowerPoint and Word documents via Copilot's Office Agent, while OpenAI's models are behind Agent Mode in Excel and Word. How it works: In demos, Chauhan showed Excel generating documents like a cash flow analysis, designed to give workers new analytical capabilities.

Microsoft makes it even easier to cheat at your job with AI agents in Office

If you think vibe-coding was an overhyped fad that could turn ideas into software, wait until you hear what Microsoft has cooked up for the rest of us mortals working with Office tools. Say hello to "vibe working," a set of new AI-driven experiences that hope to take the drudgery out of studying documents and turning them into meaningful material. What's the big take? Remember Deep Research, which takes a brief input, performs comprehensive research, and then creates a detailed report? Or the Researcher agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot that does the same with your own local files? Well, a similar convenience is coming to Office apps, starting with Word and Excel. And soon, in PowerPoint, as well. Microsoft is officially referring to it as Agent Mode in Office apps. Think of it as an expert in Excel or Docs, but one that works for you with simple, natural language commands. For example, you can feed a line like: Recommended Videos "Run a full analysis on this sales data set. I want to understand some important insights to help me make decisions about my business. Make it visual." Once you do that, the underlying Copilot AI will create the formulas, generate graphs, and create full-fledged Excel sheets. Likewise, in Word, the AI agent will sift through boring numbers and turn them into well-formatted documents featuring all the modifications you want. There's more for Copilot users A few days ago, Anthropic announced that its Claude chatbot can now create as well as edit Excel spreadsheets (.xlsx), PowerPoint presentations (.pptx), Word documents (.docx), or PDF documents using natural language prompts. Users don't even have to open these documents to make modifications, as Claude can handle it all in the background. Well, a few days later, Microsoft announced that Claude will soon coexist with OpenAI's GPT model in the Office suite. And today, the software giant is introducing Office Agent in Copilot. The core premise stays familiar. "Office Agent creates tasteful, well-structured PowerPoint decks and well-researched Word documents," says Microsoft. Agent Mode in Copilot for Excel and Docs will be available starting today for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers and Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscribers on the web, and will soon be available in the desktop apps, too. The Claude-powered Office Agent is also available for subscribers in the US starting today.

Microsoft Brings 'Vibe Working' to 365 Copilot With Agent Mode and Office Agent | AIM

Office Agent in Copilot chat, powered by Anthropic models, brings presentation and document creation into a chat-first interface. Microsoft has launched Agent Mode in Excel and Word and Office Agent in Copilot chat, introducing what the company calls "vibe working" to Microsoft 365 Copilot. The features are designed to help users create spreadsheets, documents, and presentations through iterative, prompt-based collaboration with AI. The rollout begins with limited availability. Agent Mode in Excel and Word is now available starting today for Microsoft 365 Copilot-licensed customers, as well as Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscribers in the Frontier program. Office Agent in Copilot chat is currently offered to Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscribers in the United States, where it works in English on the web. "Agent Mode delivers AI that can 'speak Excel' natively," said Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Office Product Group, in a blog post. She added that it combines the depth of Excel's data structures with OpenAI's latest reasoning models, aiming to make advanced modeling accessible to a wider range of users beyond experts. In Excel, Agent Mode enables the AI to generate outputs, validate results, and repeat tasks until outcomes are verified. Microsoft says it democratises access to expert-level modelling, with tasks such as financial analysis, loan calculations, and household budgeting. According to Microsoft's evaluation of the SpreadsheetBench benchmark, Copilot in Excel Agent Mode achieved 57.2% accuracy. In Word, Agent Mode turns document creation into what Microsoft calls "vibe writing." Users can issue prompts such as updating reports, cleaning up formatting, or drafting project summaries, while Copilot refines drafts, suggests edits, and asks clarifying questions. Office Agent in Copilot chat, powered by Anthropic models, brings presentation and document creation into a chat-first interface. The tool can clarify user intent, conduct research, and generate presentations or documents. Microsoft says Office Agent addresses earlier gaps in AI slide creation. For example, prompts can include creating a market trends deck, planning a restaurant pop-up kitchen, or preparing retirement savings plan slides. "Office Agent creates tasteful, well-structured PowerPoint decks and ready-to-use Word documents," Microsoft noted.

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In Excel, the feature can handle complex data modeling by generating, checking, and refining spreadsheets automatically, removing the need for advanced user expertise. In Word, it allows users to create and edit documents interactively, with Copilot drafting content, asking clarifying questions, and formatting the output.Microsoft has introduced Agent Mode and Office Agent in 365 Copilot, transforming the usability of Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella confirmed the development on the microblogging site X. Vibe coding has already created waves in the software ecosystem. Microsoft is describing its new Office AI features as "vibe working". The idea is that workers can tell their tools what they need and let AI do the work of building the document. In Excel, the feature can handle complex data modeling by generating, checking, and refining spreadsheets automatically, removing the need for advanced user expertise. In Word, it allows users to create and edit documents interactively, with Copilot drafting content, asking clarifying questions, and formatting the output. Office Agent, integrated into Copilot's chat, enables users to create PowerPoint presentations and Word documents directly from prompts. Microsoft said the tool is designed to produce structured presentations and ready-to-use documents, addressing long-standing challenges with AI-generated slides.