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Microsoft announced new agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
They can help to shrink the gap between ideation and production.
Other Copilot updates include an expanded Voice mode.
In the era of AI chatbots, an increasingly wide variety of once time-consuming tasks can now be reduced to just a prompt or two. Now Microsoft is bringing this ease-of-use feature to three of its most popular platforms.
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As of today, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint have their own dedicated AI agents that can generate content via Copilot Chat, a pay-as-you-go service launched in January that added agentic capabilities to the preexisting free chat experience for Microsoft 365 commercial customers.
How to use them
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