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Microsoft’s new “Agent Mode” for Excel and Word — plus a chat‑first “Office Agent” inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — marks a clear shift from single‑turn assistance to agentic productivity: describe the outcome you want in plain language, hand the task to an AI that plans, executes, checks itself...

Microsoft’s productivity stack just took another step toward agentic work: today’s rollout of Agent Mode in Excel and Word, plus a new Office Agent available from Copilot chat, promises to let everyday users build complex, auditable spreadsheets and full documents from simple natural‑language...

Microsoft is moving beyond single‑prompt Copilot chat and into what it calls “vibe working” — a new pattern that stitches multistep, steerable agents directly into Office apps so Copilot can plan, build, validate and iterate on documents, spreadsheets and presentations on your behalf. The...

Microsoft’s Copilot is learning to plan — not just answer — and the company has rolled out a pair of agentic features that push that capability directly into Word and Excel: a new Agent Mode for in‑app, multistep assistance and an Office Agent that creates documents from the Copilot chat surface...