Microsoft has confirmed that Excel and Word are going to count from now on a new agricultural modecapable of generating complex spreadsheets, as well as documents, from only one prompt. Besides, He has also incorporated a new Office agent in Co -Chatdriven by Anthropic models. This is capable of generating PowerPoint presentations and Word documents from conversations with Chatbot.
The Excel and Word agent mode is a more powerful version of the Copilot experience that Microsoft has added to its Office apps. It is designed to make the most complex Excel areas more accessible to users who are not experts.
This mode, basically, takes a complex task and is responsible for dividing it into more simple ones, showing planning and reasoning that the user can follow. Use the OpenAI GPT5 model for the division of each step, for example, the creation of a document, in several agricultural tasks, which subsequently executes. Because of its operation, it is similar to what an automated macro would do in real time, but shows everything you are doing in a sidebar on the screen.
According to the company, the agetic mode in Excel has a 57.2% precision rate in the SpreadSheetBench test bank, which is used to evaluate the ability of an AI model to edit real spreadsheets. The result places this agetic mode above Shortcut.ai, Chatgpt with compatibility with XLSX and Claude Files Opus 4.1 files. Of course, it is still quite behind the human precision achieved when working with Excel, of 71.3%.
In Word, the agetic mode goes beyond the functions of the AI that already has the writing, rewriting and summary tool. The agetic mode converts the creation of documents into an interactive conversational experience, and makes Copilot responsible for creating content drafts, suggests adjustments and clarifies what elements are needed during the process of creating a document.
For example, it allows to generate a monthly report from data from previous months, and make Copilot resumm the most outstanding points of the month and the differences of an earlier report. Copilot is responsible for making suggestions so that the process is not interrupted, and also that writing is more a dialogue with the agent than a task.
This new Office agent will also be available outside the Office apps through the Co -Co -chat. In this way it will not be necessary to have PowerPoint or Word open to inicate the creation of presentations or documents from a prompt in a chat.
The Office agent can generate completely structured PowerPoints, while researching on the web and offers a pre -slide view. With this, Microsoft hopes to get Office to continue differentiating itself from the growing amount of AI tools that also try to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
As for the incorporation of Anthropic and his tools to the agents, his arrival does not mean that Openai’s models will disappear from Office apps, but it does give the impression that Anthropic models are closer to becoming a key part of Office’s apps such as Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Microsoft will use Anthropic API to take these functions to Copilot Chat.
In addition, Copilot agent for Excel and Word will be available from now In the Frontier program to Microsoft 365 Copilot customers or Microsoft 365 personnel and family subscribers.
The Copilot and Word agent mode is only available in web versions for now, although from the company they have already confirmed that the support for desktop versions will arrive soon. For now, Microsoft has started with deployments for the United States.
