Daijiworld Media Network – Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Oct 1: Microsoft is set to bring a major change to its Office suite by introducing an AI-powered document generator, enabling users to create presentations, spreadsheets and other files simply by typing prompts.

In a blog post on Tuesday, Sumit Chauhan, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Office Product Group, announced that the new feature—Agent Mode—will be rolled out under the Frontier program for Microsoft Copilot’s licensed customers and Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscribers.

The tech giant revealed that Agent Mode will debut in Excel and Word, with a PowerPoint version to follow soon. Alongside this, Microsoft’s Copilot AI chatbot will also feature Office Agent, designed to create “polished” PowerPoint presentations and Word documents via user prompts, with Excel support also in the pipeline.

“Agent Mode delivers AI that can ‘speak Excel’ natively. It’s built on the richness of Excel artifacts and OpenAI’s latest reasoning models—democratizing access to expert-level capabilities and making advanced modeling approachable for most everyone,” the blog post stated.

The AI, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-5 model, will be capable of generating, fixing, and re-generating content until accurate, while displaying each step in real time through a sidebar. Copilot will also provide a full summary of insights and validation steps to allow users to further refine outputs.

According to Microsoft’s internal testing with Spreadsheetbench, Copilot in Excel’s Agent Mode achieved 57.2% accuracy in editing spreadsheets, compared to 71.3% accuracy by humans. Despite this, it outperformed several other AI competitors, including ChatGPT agent with .xlsx support, Claude Files Opus 4.1, and Shortcut.ai.

With the launch of this “vibe-based” document generator, Microsoft aims to reduce the time users spend on tedious tasks like data entry and formatting, and make professional-level productivity tools more accessible to everyone.