After providing users the chance to create apps with natural language prompts in Github earlier this year, Microsoft is bringing more of vibe coding features to its more mainstream apps. The tech giant on Monday announced a new Agent Mode in Excel and Word which allows users to generate spreadsheets and documents using its AI.
“In the same way vibe coding has transformed software development, the latest reasoning models in Copilot unlock agentic productivity for Office artifacts.” Sumit Chauhan, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft's Office Product Group wrote in a blogpost.
Microsoft says Agent Mode not oly generates outputs but “evaluate results, fix issues, and repeat the process until the outcome is verified.” The new agent mode using OpenAI's models in order to “democratizing access to expert-level capabilities”.
Microsoft also shared a list of ways users could use the new Agent Mode in Word and Excel - access to PowerPoint coming soon. The company gave examples of using it for financial analysis, loan calculations, update monthly reports, clean up documents and personal budgeting
Microsoft's new Offiice Agent:
The company is also introducing a new Office Agent which creates word and PowerPoint documents using simple natural language prompts.
“Office Agent creates polished PowerPoint presentations and ready-to-use Word documents from chat in Copilot, and coming soon to Excel. ” Chauhan says.
The new tool is powered by Anthropic's agent, the main OpenAI rival that Microsoft has grown accustomed to using in its new features.