Microsoft continues to integrate AI tools into its widely used products, such as Windows and Microsoft 365. With its latest announcement, the company introduced an innovation that will radically change the user experience in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint: AI Agents will soon be added to Office programs.

Microsoft Office has increased its AI support

This feature, which Microsoft calls “Agent Mode,” is directly integrated into Excel and Word. Users can create complex spreadsheets and documents by issuing simple commands. Using OpenAI’s latest reasoning models, this system breaks down large tasks into step-by-step solutions.

On the Excel side, Agent Mode can perform functions such as data analysis, visualization, financial modeling, and comprehensive report creation. According to data shared by Microsoft, this feature achieved a 57.2 percent accuracy rate in SpreadsheetBench tests.

While this rate falls short of the 71.3 percent performance of human users, the system has the ability to check its own results, correct errors, and retry until it reaches the correct result.

In Word, Agent Mode makes the document creation process interactive, generating content drafts, offering suggestions, and applying professional formatting.

Microsoft also introduced the “Office Agent” feature integrated into the Copilot chatbot. This system runs on Anthropic’s AI models instead of OpenAI. Users can create PowerPoint presentations or Word documents using chat-based commands.

During these tasks, the Office Agent can conduct web searches and, if necessary, request additional information from the user, guiding the process. Microsoft’s use of both OpenAI and Anthropic AI in these new AI agents indicates that the company will adopt a more versatile approach in the future.