Microsoft is rolling out a new set of features for Excel, Word and Copilot that enable subscribers to tell an AI-powered assistant to generate documents instead of doing the work themselves.

This is significant because it's a big step forward in Microsoft's ongoing mission to inject AI into seemingly every aspect of its business. The company helped kickstart the tech industry's current AI craze by launching Bing with Copilot early in 2023, and later that year, Microsoft put a Copilot AI agent right on your Windows 11 desktop that you can chat with any time to do things like change system settings.

This latest update adds a new Office Agent you can chat with inside Copilot to generate PowerPoint decks and Word documents using data pulled from the Internet. There's also a new Agent Mode fo

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