Agent Mode is now available in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Microsoft has beefed up Copilot’s capabilities in Word, Excel and PowerPoint, claiming its Agent Mode will help speed up workers’ output. The new features, announced last year, mean that Copilot can work more efficiently with Office applications, for example, understanding the richness of a pivot table in Excel or the use of animations in PowerPoint. In tests with customers and researchers, Microsoft has learned a few things about how to improve the way Copilot is deployed, and laid out so...