US EditionWith New Agent Mode for Excel and Word, Microsoft Touts “Vibe Working”
Agent Mode enhances Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel and Word with advanced planning and reasoning, achieving 57.2% accuracy on SpreadsheetBench, outperforming competitors.
- On Monday, Microsoft launched Agent Mode in Excel on the web and Word on the web through the Frontier programme for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers and Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscribers.
- To differentiate Office, Microsoft built Agent Mode to bring expert workflows into Copilot, using OpenAI's models to `democratize access to expert-level capabilities` and decompose complex tasks with planning, reasoning, and outcome verification.
- SpreadsheetBench testing shows Agent Mode in Excel scored 57.2 percent accuracy, runs analyses and fixes errors with sidebar summaries, while Office Agent uses Anthropic models to create PowerPoint and Word documents for Personal and Family Frontier subscribers in the United States.
- IT administrators must enable Copilot and apply Microsoft Purview and the Copilot Control System to manage data, while businesses require a Microsoft 365 Copilot business subscription costing $30 per user per month.
- Adoption will hinge on user trust, accuracy of outputs and clear admin policies, requiring training and feedback loops to improve model responses for users and IT admins.
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With new agent mode for Excel and Word, Microsoft touts “vibe working”
With a new set of Microsoft 365 features, knowledge workers will be able to generate complex Word documents or Excel spreadsheets using only text prompts to Microsoft's chat bot. Two distinct products were announced, each using different models and accessed from within different tools—though the similar names Microsoft chose make it confusing to parse what's what. Driven by OpenAI's GPT-5 large language model, Agent Mode is built into Word and E…
Microsoft debuts ‘vibe working’ with Agent Mode, Office Agent launch in Microsoft 365 Copilot
The new Agent Mode from Microsoft enhances Excel and Word, allowing users to create documents through natural language prompts. It offers functionalities like output evaluation and issue fixing, leveraging OpenAI's models to improve productivity.
The technological giant launched its new assistants, capable of performing all the work of a consultant in seconds.
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