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Microsoft just added AI agents to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - how to use them

Available for Microsoft 365 Copilot users, the new agents will help you create, edit, and analyze your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

As one example cited by Microsoft, you could submit the following prompt to Copilot in Excel: "Run a full analysis on this sales data set. As one example focusing on PowerPoint, you could give Copilot the following prompt: "I need to create a set of slides to share with my employees to encourage them to actively fund their retirement accounts. In this case, Copilot would analyze your prompt, conduct deep research to find the data, and then generate a fully formatted presentation with a live preview of the slides.

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