{"id":13982,"date":"2026-04-23T11:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/13982\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:50:08","slug":"microsoft-launches-vibe-working-in-word-excel-and-powerpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/13982\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft launches \u2018vibe working\u2019 in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft is rolling out a new Agent Mode inside Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint this week. Previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/787076\/microsoft-office-agent-mode-office-agent-anthropic-models\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">described by Microsoft<\/a> as \u201cvibe working,\u201d the Agent Mode is a more powerful version of the Copilot experience in Office that Microsoft has been trying to sell to businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cWhen we first shipped Copilot, foundation models were not powerful enough to use Copilot to command the applications,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2026\/04\/22\/copilots-agentic-capabilities-in-word-excel-and-powerpoint-are-generally-available\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">admits Sumit Chauhan<\/a>, corporate vice president of Microsoft\u2019s Office Product Group. \u201cThis meant Copilot was a passive partner in documents: it could answer questions but missed the mark when it was asked to take action on the canvas directly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The new Agent Mode is designed to better follow commands and edits in documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. \u201cOver the past year, models have made meaningful leaps in instruction following, reasoning, and overall quality, and are now better at handling multi-step edits reliably without losing your intent,\u201d says Chauhan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">You\u2019ll be able to watch the Copilot AI agent work in real time, thanks to a sidebar that shows every step Copilot is taking on a document. In Excel it can make changes directly in a workbook, adding formulas or tables. Agent Mode in PowerPoint can also update existing decks with fresh information and keep the template styling that businesses use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft is rolling out these new Copilot features as the default experience for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Premium subscribers, and they\u2019re also available with Microsoft 365 Personal and Family plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft is rolling out a new Agent Mode inside Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint this week.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24,420,7853,416,320,7852,66,781],"class_list":{"0":"post-13982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-microsoft","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-azure","10":"tag-azure-copilot","11":"tag-copilot","12":"tag-microsoft","13":"tag-microsoft-copilot","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}